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TY - GEN ID - cogprints6177 UR - http://cogprints.org/6177/ A1 - Marchal, Harmony A1 - Lemaire, Benoit A1 - Bianco, Maryse A1 - Dessus, Philippe Y1 - 2008/// N2 - This paper presents an iterative model of knowledge acquisition of gender information associated with word endings in French. Gender knowledge is represented as a set of rules containing exceptions. Our model takes noun-gender pairs as input and constantly maintains a list of rules and exceptions which is both coherent with the input data and minimal with respect to a minimum description length criterion. This model was compared to human data at various ages and showed a good fit. We also compared the kind of rules discovered by the model with rules usually extracted by linguists and found interesting discrepancies. PB - Association for Computational Linguistics KW - gender assignment KW - computational model KW - minimum description length TI - A MDL-based Model of Gender Knowledge Acquisition AV - public ER -