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  -

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