Conférence "Méthodes empiriques en syntaxe" (résumé et rectificatif)

[Pollet Samvelian]

Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3
Ecole Doctorale 268 "Langage et Langues"

Cycle "Conférences du Samedi matin"
Samedi 7 juin 2008
10h00-12h30

ILPGA 19 rue des Bernardins 75005 Paris
Salle Brunot (rez-de-chaussée)


Les méthodes empiriques en syntaxe et l'émergence de nouveaux
fonctionnalismes


Coordination :  Kim Gerdes & Pollet Samvelian

10h00- 10h30 : Kim Gerdes (ILPGA) et Pollet Samvelian (ILPGA),

Introdcution
« Les méthodes empiriques en syntaxe et l'émergence de nouveaux
fonctionnalismes »

10h30-11h30 : Rens BOD (université d'Amsterdam)

« From exemplar to Grammar : Simulating Language Acquisition in U-DOP »

11h30-12h30 : Discussion avec Martin Kay (université de Stanford)

abstract:
>From Exemplar to Grammar: Language Learning in U-DOP
Rens Bod
While rules and exemplars are usually viewed as opposites, the
data-oriented parsing (DOP) approach argues that they are end points
of the same distribution. By representing both rules and exemplars as
partial trees, DOP takes into account the fluid middle ground between
the two extremes. This insight is the starting point for a new theory
of language learning, termed U-DOP, which maximizes a novel notion of
'structural analogy' between a sentence and previous sentences. U-DOP
is based on the following idea: if a language learner does not know
which syntactic tree structure should be assigned to a sentence, s/he
initially keeps open all possible (finite) tree structures and lets
linguistic experience decide which is the most probable tree
structure. We will show that U-DOP can learn both rule-based and
exemplar-based aspects of language, ranging from agreement to
'movement' phenomena such as auxiliary fronting. It turns out that
syntactic facets can emerge from analogical matching without hearing
the particular facet in the linguistic data and without having to
assume that it is hard-wired in the mind. We will compare U-DOP to
other learning models and discuss experiments with English, German and
Chinese corpora as well as with child data from the CHILDES database.

affiche :
http://elizia.net/afficheBod.pdf


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Pollet Samvelian
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Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3
ILPGA
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