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Measuring language complexity from hierarchical reuse of recurring patterns

arXiv cs.CL · 2026-06-11 Cached

Introduces the ladderpath index as a measure of language complexity based on algorithmic information theory, applied to 21 parallel corpora. The index is approximately invariant across languages, supporting the equi-complexity hypothesis, and reveals trade-offs between character inventory and corpus length.

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