An acquisition-based evaluation metric for competing syntactic theories
- 주제(키워드) Evaluation metric , Occam's razor , Parameter mis-setting , Swedish , Syntactic modeling , Verb raising
- 등재 SCOPUS, KCI등재
- 발행기관 Institute for the Study of Language and Information
- 발행년도 2018
- URI http://www.dcollection.net/handler/ewha/000000156896
- 본문언어 영어
- Published As http://dx.doi.org/10.17250/khisli.35.1.201803.002
초록/요약
This paper addresses the puzzle of choosing among competing syntactic theories, which are contrasting theories that can nevertheless all properly account for the utterances of some language. To do so, I develop an evaluation metric that is based on language learnability and acquisition. In particular, such an acquisition-based metric considers speed of acquiring a target grammar, as well as relative accuracy of acquisition. In applying such a metric, I propose using the kinds of novel data that can be generated via computational modeling for syntactic learning. I then demonstrate how this evaluation metric can be used effectively by reporting on learning simulations for a case study, which focuses on two competing theories that arise in the literature for verb raising in Swedish. © Institute for the Study of Language and Information.
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