On the Value of a Dependency Connection
David G. Hays · 1961
VALUES are tentatively defined as numbers assigned to types of syntactic relations such that connections of higher value are established in preference to connections of lower value during sentence-structure determination. Given a text in which sentence structures are known, the values of some syntactic relations can be estimated by the following plan: assign value 1 to relations such that no relation is known to have lower value; assign value 2 to relations such that all relations known to have lower value are also known to have value 1; etc. The same procedure can be used in assigning adjectives to order classes, and for similar purposes.*