Realistic data and paradigms: the paradigm cell finding problem

Boyé, Gilles; Schalchli, Gauvain

doi:10.1007/s11525-018-9335-1

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“…Some theories, like Split Morphology (Anderson, 1982;Matthews, 1972), consider inflection and derivation as independent domains but this separation is rejected in more recent studies which defend the idea that they are part of a continuum (see Walther, 2013, Chap. 2 for a detailed presentation). This view owes much to work in typology like (Haspelmath, 1996); Štekauer (2015) presents the main arguments in support of this position; Spencer (2013) describes in detail a number of phenomena that illustrate the porosity of the boundary between the two sub-domains; Bonami and Strnadová (2019) and Boyé and Schalchli (2019) show how inflection and derivation can be described with the same model in a perfectly natural way. We come back to this question in Sect.…”

Section: Paradigmatic Morphologymentioning

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“…Unlike inflectional morphology, whose paradigmatic nature is well known (Blevins, 2006(Blevins, , 2016, derivational morphology has, for a long time, been considered to be of a different nature because of its irregularities, induced for example by the rivalry between suffixes like -ity and -ness in English or -age, -ion and -ment in French. However, this view evolved in the last decade under the influence of works that argue that regularities and irregularities in inflectional and derivational morphology are basically of the same nature and that they only differ in degrees (Bauer, 1997;Bonami & Strnadová, 2019;Boyé & Schalchli, 2019;Spencer, 2013;Štekauer, 2014). This evolution toward the unification of morphology extends the notions, principles and theoretical frameworks of inflectional morphology to derivational morphology, and especially its paradigmatic organization.…”

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ParaDis: a family and paradigm model

Hathout

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2022

Morphology

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The unification of inflectional and derivational morphology is an issue that is often debated but on which there is no consensus. On the other hand, it is well known that inflectional morphology is organized into paradigms. This paper contributes to the convergence between inflection and derivation by offering a new paradigmatic model of derivational morphology. This model, called ParaDis, is based on two types of objects, families and paradigms, and on an architecture made up of three levels of representation (formal, categorical and semantic) and a morphological level, which connects the other three. Morphological descriptions are distributed at three levels, where they organize into formal, categorical and semantic families and paradigms. In this way, the analysis of a phenomenon adjusts closely to its level-specific regularities. The paper describes ParaDis and shows how it can be used to analyze a wide range of canonical and non-canonical derivational constructions in a simple and intuitive way. It compares ParaDis to five frameworks (Bochner, 1993; Bonami & Strnadová, 2019; Booij, 2010; Jackendoff & Audring, 2020b; Koenig, 1999) and illustrates its contributions through the analysis of parasynthetic derivatives.

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Section: Paradigmatic Morphologymentioning

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ParaDis: a family and paradigm model

Hathout

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2022

Morphology

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“…learn paradigm membership from raw text, but do not sort paradigms into cells. Boyé and Schalchli (2019) discuss the paradigm cell finding problem, identifying the cell (but not paradigm) realized by a given form. Lee (2015) clusters forms into cells across inflection classes.…”

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“…For three of the five languages we consider, our benchmark system predicts unattested inflections one of its subtasks which Boyé and Schalchli (2019) call the paradigm cell finding problem (see §2.2). of lexicon forms with accuracy within 20% of a fully supervised system.…”

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The Paradigm Discovery Problem

Erdmann¹,

Elsner²,

Wu³

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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This work treats the paradigm discovery problem (PDP)-the task of learning an inflectional morphological system from unannotated sentences. We formalize the PDP and develop evaluation metrics for judging systems. Using currently available resources, we construct datasets for the task. We also devise a heuristic benchmark for the PDP and report empirical results on five diverse languages. Our benchmark system first makes use of word embeddings and string similarity to cluster forms by cell and by paradigm. Then, we bootstrap a neural transducer on top of the clustered data to predict words to realize the empty paradigm slots. An error analysis of our system suggests clustering by cell across different inflection classes is the most pressing challenge for future work. Our code and data are available at https://github.com/ alexerdmann/ParadigmDiscovery.

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“…Boyé and Schalchli (2019) independently raise essentially the same issue, which they call the Paradigm Cell Finding Problem. [ 80 ]…”

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Modeling morphological learning, typology, and change: What can the neural sequence-to-sequence framework contribute?

Elsner

Sims

Erdmann

et al. 2019

JLM

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We survey research using neural sequence-to-sequence models as computational models of morphological learning and learnability. We discuss their use in determining the predictability of inflectional exponents, in making predictions about language acquisition and in modeling language change. Finally, we make some proposals for future work in these areas. 1 introduction Theoretical morphologists have long appealed to notions of learning, or learnability, to explain language change and the varied typological patterns of the world's languages. The high-level argument is simple: all natural languages must be learned, and "unlearnable" linguistic systems cannot survive. Therefore, the learning mechanism provides constraints on what sorts of languages can exist in the world. In the realm of morphology, however, it has not proven simple to define

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Realistic data and paradigms: the paradigm cell finding problem

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ParaDis: a family and paradigm model

ParaDis: a family and paradigm model

The Paradigm Discovery Problem

Modeling morphological learning, typology, and change: What can the neural sequence-to-sequence framework contribute?

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