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--- abstract: "This paper presents an iterative model of\r\nknowledge acquisition of gender information\r\nassociated with word endings in\r\nFrench. Gender knowledge is represented\r\nas a set of rules containing exceptions.\r\nOur model takes noun-gender pairs as input\r\nand constantly maintains a list of\r\nrules and exceptions which is both coherent\r\nwith the input data and minimal with\r\nrespect to a minimum description length\r\ncriterion. This model was compared to\r\nhuman data at various ages and showed a\r\ngood fit. We also compared the kind of\r\nrules discovered by the model with rules\r\nusually extracted by linguists and found\r\ninteresting discrepancies." altloc: - http://www-timc.imag.fr/Benoit.Lemaire/activites/coNLL08.pdf chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: 2008 conference: 12th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning confloc: Manchester contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Marchal given: Harmony honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Lemaire given: Benoit honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Bianco given: Maryse honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Dessus given: Philippe honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2008 date_type: published datestamp: 2008-08-30 23:21:12 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/61/77 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: - family: Clark given: Alex honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Toutanova given: Kristina honourific: '' lineage: '' eprint_status: archive eprintid: 6177 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/6177/1/coNLL08.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'gender assignment,computational model,minimum description length' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:57:11 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: TRUE publication: ~ publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics refereed: TRUE referencetext: "Casalis, S., Louis-Alexandre, M.-F. 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