  Each language has its own complex systems of word, phrase, and sentence
construction, the guiding principles of which are often summarized in grammar
descriptions for the consumption of linguists or language learners. However,
manual creation of such descriptions is a fraught process, as creating
descriptions which describe the language in "its own terms" without bias or
error requires both a deep understanding of the language at hand and
linguistics as a whole. We propose an automatic framework AutoLEX that aims to
ease linguists' discovery and extraction of concise descriptions of linguistic
phenomena. Specifically, we apply this framework to extract descriptions for
three phenomena: morphological agreement, case marking, and word order, across
several languages. We evaluate the descriptions with the help of language
experts and propose a method for automated evaluation when human evaluation is
infeasible.
