Probabilistic Valency Frame Decomposition in Agglutinative Languages: A Cross-Corpus Computational Architecture for Morphosyntactic Dependency Mapping

Authors

  • Rowan Young Professor
  • Rowan Wright Associate Professor
  • Kim Hill PhD
  • Jamie Jackson D.Sc

Keywords:

valency frame decomposition, agglutinative morphosyntax, dependency grammar annotation, cross-lingual treebank alignment, conditional random field parsing, argument structure mapping, morpheme boundary detection, low-resource NLP, typological syntax modeling

Abstract

This study addresses persistent limitations in dependency grammar annotation when applied to morphologically rich agglutinative languages, where traditional valency-frame models exhibit systematic degradation in predictive accuracy. Drawing on aligned treebank corpora from Turkish, Finnish, and Kazakh, we introduce a probabilistic decomposition architecture that integrates hierarchical morpheme-boundary parsing with cross-lingual valency slot alignment. The proposed framework employs conditional random field layering atop transformer-encoded lemma sequences, enabling dynamic recalibration of argument structure under syntactic ambiguity. Experimental evaluation across three held-out corpora demonstrates a mean labeled attachment score improvement of 6.3 percentage points over established baselines. These results suggest that morphosyntactic dependency mapping can be substantially enhanced through language-family-sensitive probabilistic modeling, with direct implications for low-resource NLP pipeline construction and typological grammar research.

Author Biographies

Rowan Young, Professor

Professor
Middle East Technical University
Dumlupınar Bulvarı No:1, 06800 Çankaya, Ankara, Turkey

Rowan Wright, Associate Professor

Associate Professor
University of Helsinki
Yliopistonkatu 4, FI-00100 Helsinki, Finland

Kim Hill, PhD

PhD
Utrecht University
Heidelberglaan 8, 3584 CS Utrecht, Netherlands

Jamie Jackson, D.Sc

D.Sc
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
3-11-1 Asahi-cho, Fuchu-shi, Tokyo 183-8534, Japan

References

Gojayeva, L. (2025). Modern methods of teaching literature. OEIL Research Journal, 23(11), 304.

Published

2025-10-29

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