Learning with hidden structure in Optimality Theory and Harmonic Grammar: beyond Robust Interpretive Parsing*
Learning with hidden structure in Optimality Theory and Harmonic Grammar: beyond Robust Interpretive Parsing*
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最优性理论和调和语法中的隐藏结构学习:超越鲁棒解释性解析*
DOI:
10.1017/s0952675713000031
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发表时间:
2013
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影响因子:
1.3
通讯作者:
G. Jarosz
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作者:
G. Jarosz
This paper explores the relative merits of constraint ranking vs. weighting in the context of a major outstanding learnability problem in phonology: learning in the face of hidden structure. Specifically, the paper examines a well-known approach to the structural ambiguity problem, Robust Interpretive Parsing (RIP; Tesar & Smolensky 1998), focusing on its stochastic extension first described by Boersma (2003). Two related problems with the stochastic formulation of RIP are revealed, rooted in a failure to take full advantage of probabilistic information available in the learner's grammar. To address these problems, two novel parsing strategies are introduced and applied to learning algorithms for both probabilistic ranking and weighting. The novel parsing strategies yield significant improvements in performance, asymmetrically improving performance of OT learners. Once RIP is replaced with the proposed modifications, the apparent advantage of HG over OT learners reported in previous work disappears (Boersma & Pater 2008).