Optimality Theory (OT)
Harmonic Serialism and Finite State Optimality Theory
... the Optimality Theory (OT) framework can generate non-rational rela- tions, but that a finite-state implementation is pos- sible if each grammar specifies a bound on the number of violations that can ...
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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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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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Nonparametric Learning of Phonological Constraints in Optimality Theory
... We present a method to jointly learn fea- tures and weights directly from distri- butional data in a log-linear framework. Specifically, we propose a non-parametric Bayesian model for learning phonologi- cal markedness ...
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Phonological Comprehension and the Compilation of Optimality Theory
... der Optimality Theory grammars consisting of finite-state con- ...in OT; we show that unlike production, it does not always yield a regular set, making finite-state methods ...of OT, we show ...
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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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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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Complexity of the Acquisition of Phonotactics in Optimality Theory
... in Optimality Theory ...the OT framework, namely that an analogous result holds for the correspond- ing problem within alternative frameworks, such as Harmonic Grammar (Legendre et ...
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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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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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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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MoL 2002 09: A Study of Optimality Theory and the Human Sentence Processing Mechanism
... information it is presented with, the other three constraints go to work to help determine the optimal parse of the given input. 28,29 This is all quite lovely, for it illustrates how the computation of an optimal parse ...
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An approximation approach to the problem of the acquisition of phonotactics in Optimality Theory
... I endorse Prince and Tesar’s conjecture that (9) is a restrictiveness measure, at least for the cases of interest. 1 In Magri (2012a), I backup this claim by looking at a case study, namely the typology cor- responding ...
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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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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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A constraint-based approach to acquisition of word-final consonant clusters in Turkish children
... under Optimality Theory (OT) as opposed to Harmonic Grammar (HG) is made to see under which model GLA functions more efficiently and reaches the target adult form ...
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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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Ecohydrological optimality in the Northeast China Transect
... a theory and method: ecohydrological optimality (Eagleson, 1978a–g, 1982; Eagleson and Tellers, ...logical optimality theory, vegetation characteristics, such as leaf angle, leaf area index ...
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Current Trends in Phonology: Theoretic Account of Amharic Spirintization
... McCarthy specifies lenition processes in optimality theory with [5] which is a combination of functionalism and structuralism. Kirchner said that “lenition patterns are expressed in terms of conflicts ...
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