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  • 标题:Inferring inflection classes with description length
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  • 作者:Sacha Beniamine ; Olivier Bonami ; Benoît Sagot
  • 期刊名称:Journal of Language Modelling
  • 印刷版ISSN:2299-856X
  • 电子版ISSN:2299-8470
  • 出版年度:2017
  • 卷号:5
  • 期号:3
  • 页码:465-525
  • DOI:10.15398/jlm.v5i3.184
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:Polish Academy of Sciences
  • 摘要:We discuss the notion of an inflection class system,a traditional ingredient of the description of inflection systems of nontrivial complexity.We distinguish systems of microclasses,which partition a set of lex_emes in classes with identical behavior,and systems of macroclasses,which group lexemes that are similar enough in a few larger classes.On the basis of the intuition that macroclasses should contribute to a concise description of the system,we propose one algorithmic method for inferring macroclasses from raw inflectional paradigms,based on minimisation of the description length of the system under a given strategy of identifying morphological alternations in paradigms.We then exhibit classifications produced by our implementation on French and European Portuguese conjugation data and argue that they con?stitute an appropriate systematisation of traditional classifications.To arrive at such a convincing systematisation,it was crucial for us to use a local approach to inflection class similarity (based on pairwise comparisons of paradigm cells) rather than a global approach (based on the simultaneous comparison of all cells).We conclude that it is indeed possible to infer inflectional macroclasses objectively.
  • 关键词:morphology;MDL;inflection classes
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