Optimality Theory
PYCOT: An Optimality Theory-based Pronoun Resolution Toolkit
... of Optimality Theory constraints (Prince and Smolensky, 1993) described in (Beaver, ...mality Theory (henceforth OT) requires that the preferences for pronoun resolution be stated as a set of ...
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Directional Constraint Evaluation in Optimality Theory
... dircon dvi Directional Constraint Evaluation in Optimality Theory? Jason Eisner Department of Computer Science / University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14607 0226 (U S A ) / jason@cs rochester edu Weig[.] ...
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Nonparametric Learning of Phonological Constraints in Optimality Theory
... of Optimality Theory has been the existence of a fixed inventory of uni- versal markedness constraints innately available to the learner, an assumption by arguments regarding the computational complexity of ...
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PP 2005 01: Neural Networks, Penalty Logic and Optimality Theory
... to Optimality Theory (OT) – a general framework which was introduced by Prince & Smolensky (1993) for describing constraint interaction in Generative ...
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Optimality Theory and the Generative Complexity of Constraint Violability
... In this paper, we investigate the conditions under which the phonological descriptions that are possible within the view of constraint interaction embodied in Optimality Theory Prince an[r] ...
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Harmonic Serialism and Finite State Optimality Theory
... This paper presents a new finite-state model of Optimality Theory (OT). In this model, two assumptions are imposed on the OT framework. Firstly, I adopt the Harmonic Serialism version of OT, in which output ...
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Phonological Comprehension and the Compilation of Optimality Theory
... To produce language is to convert utterances from their underlying (“deep”) form to a surface form. Optimality Theory or OT (Prince and Smolensky, 1993) proposes to describe phonological production as an ...
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An approximation approach to the problem of the acquisition of phonotactics in Optimality Theory
... Usually, the problem of the acquisition of the phonotactics of a language given a finite set of lin- guistic data is formalized as the problem of find- ing a smallest language in the typology that is consistent with the ...
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The Complexity of Ranking Hypotheses in Optimality Theory
... algorithm generates one candidate per language in the factorial typology. In such a case, the ERC set for a single optimal candidate can serve as a “global trigger” that is sufficient to uniquely identify the teacher’s ...
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Complexity of the Acquisition of Phonotactics in Optimality Theory
... Tesar and Smolensky (1998) consider the ba- sic ranking problem in Optimality Theory (OT). According to this problem, the learner needs to find a ranking consistent with a given set of data. They show that ...
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Phonological Derivation in Optimality Theory
... Phonological Derivation in Optimality Theory Phonological Derivation in Optimality Theory* T Mark Ellison C e n t r e f o r C o g n i t i v e S c i e n c e , U n i v e r s i t y o f E d i n b u r g h[.] ...
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MoL 2001 14: Frog Leaps and Human Noises: An Optimality Theory Approach to Cultural Change
... linguistic Optimality Theory overthrows this kind of ambiguity em- ploying a mechanism for evaluation which fulfils the quest for differential ...of optimality, is neither ambiguous, nor arbitrary, ...
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Practical Finite State Optimality Theory
... representing Optimality Theory (OT) grammars (Prince and Smolensky, 1993) as computational models and finite-state transducers, in particular, has been widely studied since the in- ception of the ...
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MoL 2002 09: A Study of Optimality Theory and the Human Sentence Processing Mechanism
... I think that should suffice for the preliminary remarks. In the following section, I shall, after having made the reader wait longer than I perhaps should have, test the theory on experimental data. We have four ...
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Computing Optimal Descriptions for Optimality Theory Grammars with Context Free Position Structures
... Because we are assuming that an input segment may only be parsed into at most one position, and that a position may have at most one input segment parsed into it, this parsing operation [r] ...
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Book Reviews: Optimality Theory
... In Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting o/the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 8th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association/or Computational Linguistics, [r] ...
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Efficient Generation in Primitive Optimality Theory
... It is always possible to recover the old representation 4a from the new one 4b, under the convention that two constituents on the timeline are linked if their interiors overlap Bird & El[r] ...
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On the optimality of the neighbor-joining algorithm
... Our main results on the optimality of NJ for n = 5, 6, 7, 8 taxa are summarized in Table 3. Each row of the table describes one type of tree. Trees are classified by their topology. A k-cherry tree is a tree with ...
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Optimality and Plausibility in Language Design
... The Minimalist conception of optimal design, however, is fundamentally different insofar that the faculty of language (FL) is not a communicative sys- tem—or a ‘functional’ system of any kind—but rather FL is a ...
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Invariance and optimality in the regulation of an enzyme
... In this work we show how certain properties of a bio- chemical reaction with time-dependent enzyme concen- tration can be summarized and explored through a very simple analytical re-elaboration of the classical MM ...
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