Connectionist Learning of Natural Language Lexical Phonotactics

Connectionist Learning of Natural Language Lexical Phonotactics (1998)

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by Ivelin Stoianov , John Nerbonne

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TITLE	Connectionist Learning of Natural Language Lexical Phonotactics	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR NAME	Ivelin Stoianov	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
AUTHOR AFFIL	Dept. Alfa-informatica, Faculty of Letters, University of Groningen	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR ADDR	P.O.Box 716, 9700 AS Groningen, The Netherlands	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
AUTHOR NAME	John Nerbonne	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
AUTHOR AFFIL	Dept. Alfa-informatica, Faculty of Letters, University of Groningen	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR ADDR	P.O.Box 716, 9700 AS Groningen, The Netherlands	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
ABSTRACT	Connectionist learning of natural language words and their phonetic regularities is presented. The Neural Network (NN) model we employ in this problem is the Simple Recurrent Network, trained with the Backpropagation Through Time (BPTT) learning algorithm. During the training, it was assigned the task of predicting the next phoneme given one phoneme at each moment and keeping information of the past phonemes from a given word in a few context neurons. The phonotactics of the Dutch language was studied among others. The shortcomings of some similar previous implementations are explained and successfully overcome. Among the techniques we employed to achieve the much-improved error rate of 1.1% with monosyllabic words and 3.5% with multisyllabic ones are new methods for network response interpretation, an evolutionary approach in training a set of networks, and the exploitation of the word frequencies in training. Finally, an analysis of the phonotactics rules extracted by a ...	user correction - Legacy Corrections
YEAR	1998	user correction - Legacy Corrections
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