31.1880, Software: OT Solver: An Automated Optimality Theory Solver

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Subject: 31.1880, Software: OT Solver: An Automated Optimality Theory Solver

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Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2020 13:49:18
From: Eugenio Vigo [emvigo at gmail.com]
Subject: OT Solver: An Automated Optimality Theory Solver

 
Dear all,

I have written a small tool that I think can be of interest to the Linguistics
community: OT Solver. The project can be found at:
https://sr.ht/~emvigo/ot-solver/

OT Solver automatically calculates the optimal candidate in an Optimality
Theoretic grammar framework (Prince & Smolensky, 1994). The user provides an
OT tableau specifying the violations of each candidate for each constraint and
OT Solver outputs which candidate Eval predicts as grammatical.

This is a tool meant for two distinct use cases in the Theoretical Linguistics
community:

1. For easing the calculus of the optimal candidate in big tableaux that might
be confusing to calculate by hand.

2. For students learning the OT Eval algorithm, as they can compare the
results of their manual calculations with the result shown by this tool.

The program is written in POSIX compliant C99, licensed under the Apache
Public License 2.0. It has only been tested under Linux, but POSIX compliance
should guarantee it works under OS X and the BSDs.

Yours,
Eugenio M. Vigo


Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Morphology
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology
                     Syntax



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