Optimality Theory as a Framework for Lexical Acquisition
This is an incremental improvement for computational linguistics, specifically lexical acquisition in French.
The paper re-investigates a lexical acquisition system for French, showing its architecture aligns with Optimality Theory but has limitations due to poor constraint representation, and proposes that better representation would improve results.
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.