P. Smolensky

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Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar
Prefactory Note. Acknowledgments. 1. Preliminaries:. Background and Overview. Optimality. Overall Structure of the Argument. Overview of Part I. 2. Optimality in Grammar: Core Syllabification in…
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Information processing in dynamical systems: foundations of harmony theory
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The work reported in this chapter rests on the conviction that a methodology that has a crucial role to play in the development of cognitive science is mathematical analysis.
On the proper treatment of connectionism
  • P. Smolensky
  • Psychology
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • 1 March 1988
Abstract A set of hypotheses is formulated for a connectionist approach to cognitive modeling. These hypotheses are shown to be incompatible with the hypotheses underlying traditional cognitive…
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Learnability in Optimality Theory
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It is argued that Optimality Theory promotes confluence of the demands of more effective learnability and deeper linguistic explanation, as well as other learning issues, which allow efficient convergence to a correct grammar.
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On the comprehension/production dilemma in child language
Le fait que la capacite de production des enfants soit inferieure a leur capacite de comprehension, pose un dilemne conceptuel pour les etudes generatives sur l'acquisition du langage : les…
The Initial State and 'Richness of the Base' in Optimality Theory
Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar ; CU-CS-696-93
Schemata and Sequential Thought Processes in PDP Models
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Harmonic Grammar -- A Formal Multi-Level Connectionist Theory of Linguistic Well-Formedness: An Application ; CU-CS-464-90
Skeletonization: A Technique for Trimming the Fat from a Network via Relevance Assessment
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The basic idea is to iteratively train the network to a certain performance criterion, compute a measure of relevance that identifies which input or hidden units are most critical to performance, and automatically trim the least relevant units.
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