Contributo in atti di convegno, 2016, ENG, 10.4000/books.aaccademia.1721

Reassessing inflectional regularity in Modern Greek conjugation

Bompolas, Stavros; Marzi, Claudia; Ferro, Marcello; Cardillo, Franco Alberto; Pirrelli, Vito

Panepistimion Patron; Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

Paradigm-based approaches to word processing/learning assume that word forms are not acquired in isolation, but through associative relations linking members of the same word family (e.g. a paradigm, or a set of forms filling the same paradigm cell). Principles of correlative learning offer a set of dynamic equations that are key to modelling this complex dynamic at a considerable level of detail. We use these dynamic equations to simulate acquisition of Modern Greek conjugation, and we compare the results with evidence from German and Italian. Simulations show that different Greek verb classes are processed and acquired differentially, depending on their degrees of formal transparency and predictability. We relate these results to psycholinguistic evidence on Modern Greek word processing, and interpret our findings as supporting a view of the mental lexicon as an emergent integrative system.

Third Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2016) & Fifth Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian. Final Workshop (EVALITA 2016), pp. 72–77, Napoli, Italy, 05-07/12/2016

Keywords

word processing, paradigm-based learning, morphological processing, Greek stem allomoprhy, Temporal Self-Organising Map

CNR authors

Cardillo Franco Alberto, Pirrelli Vito, Marzi Claudia, Ferro Marcello

CNR institutes

ILC – Istituto di linguistica computazionale "Antonio Zampolli"

ID: 362297

Year: 2016

Type: Contributo in atti di convegno

Creation: 2016-12-09 17:22:52.000

Last update: 2020-09-16 13:38:02.000

External IDs

CNR OAI-PMH: oai:it.cnr:prodotti:362297

DOI: 10.4000/books.aaccademia.1721

PUMA: cnr.ilc/2016-A2-002

Scopus: 2-s2.0-85009242702