Optimality Theory as a Framework for Lexical Acquisition

Thierry Poibeau (1)

1 Lattice - Lattice - Langues, Textes, Traitements informatiques, Cognition - UMR 8094

This paper re-investigates a lexical acquisition system initially developed for French.We show that, interestingly, the architecture of the system reproduces and implements the main components of Optimality Theory. However, we formulate the hypothesis that some of its limitations are mainly due to a poor representation of the constraints used. Finally, we show how a better representation of the constraints used would yield better results.

Domaines: Traitement du texte et du document; Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]; Informatique; Linguistique; Linguistique; Sciences de l'information et de la communication

Thierry Poibeau. Optimality Theory as a Framework for Lexical Acquisition. 15th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, Apr 2014, Nepal. ⟨hal-00996763⟩