Talk:Analogical modeling

Latest comment: 10 years ago by Garfieldnate in topic TODO


Editors' disclaimers edit

Just want to add a disclaimer on my work on this article: as you can see by my user page, I'm a student at Brigham Young University where much of the research on A.M. has taken place. I promise that this is not meant as a tribute to a favorite professor or anything like that. I was just browsing through the library a few days ago and came across this book, found it interesting, and looked to see if there was any info about it on Wikipedia. I've never even had Dr. Skousen as a professor, although now I think that I would like to! --RockRockOn 19:54, 8 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

I'd better add my own disclaimer. I have done original research on AM, but I will not post it here; rest assured, you will get citations to other people's peer-reviewed publications for every fact I contribute. eritain 09:39, 19 September 2006 (UTC)Reply

Copyright edit

I'm taking a great deal of the formulae and examples directly from Skousen 1989. I assume that this is fine as long as I don't lift the actual text of his discussion, but let me know if there are any issues I should be aware of. --RockRockOn 05:03, 14 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

You're fine under both copyright law and academic ethics as long as you put quote marks around quotes and cite everything you owe a debt to. Fair use law favors transformative use, and transforming a technical book into an accessible encyclopedic article qualifies.

Meanwhile, I'm taking a great deal of my discussion directly from my own honors thesis. Copyright cops, you are on notice: Article text that resembles Nathan E. Rasmussen's Analogical modeling of pronunciation: Vowels in English monosyllables is neither dishonest nor illicit, for I am he. eritain 09:39, 19 September 2006 (UTC)Reply

Citations and references edit

I'm new to all the fancy template-based syntax for providing citations. So I cite Skousen 2003, but I don't know if the cite template has facilities for off-WP pdf articles, and I didn't use it. Feel free to fix it if you know better. Truth to tell, the cite template covers books and journals, but I very much doubt it covers all the weird quasipublications (letters, xeroxed manuscripts, preprints of every description) that linguists are so fond of. eritain 09:56, 19 September 2006 (UTC)Reply

A couple more flexible, in-line form of citations are found here (harv) and here (superscripts). The former has you define the full citation at the bottom, then reference it (like BibTeX) in the article, which produces something like (Smith, 2004) in the text and the full citation in the references section. The later has you define the full citation in the middle of article, produces something like "[2]" in the article and "^Smith, Bob (2004). Some title. etc. " in the references section, after invoking <references/> there. Both types have their place I suppose. I tend to use the first type for more academic articles (since it gives you the "(Smith, 2004)" in the article), and the second type for most other types of articles (since they're less maintenance). –jonsafari 15:29, 19 September 2006 (UTC)Reply

Ugly list of perhaps-usable sources edit

Here's an ugly list of articles, either on AM or on other exemplar-based models, that we might end up needing to cite. It's biased toward spelling-to-sound tasks because, again, that was my specific interest; but I think I've tossed out all the non-exemplar-related stuff from it. I'm mostly just pasting up here (a) so that it will be handy if/when I yoink more thesis text, in case there are citations to add to the References, and (b) so that you, who are nearer to the BYU library than I am, can see if any of the sources interest you for further reading.

  • Baayen, R. Harald. 2003. Probabilistic approaches to morphology. In Probabilistic Linguistics, ed. by Rens Bod, Jennifer Hay and Stefanie Jannedy, 229-287. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Bańko, Miroslaw. 1991. Review of Analogical modeling of language. Computational linguistics 17:246-247.
  • Daelemans, Walter & Antal van den Bosch. 1996. Language-independent data-oriented grapheme-to-phoneme conversion. In Progress in speech synthesis, ed. by Jan P. H. van Santen, Richard W. Sproat, Joseph P. Olive & Julia Hirschberg, 77-90. New York: Springer-Verlag.
  • ———. 2001. Treetalk: Memory-based word phonemisation. In Data-driven techniques in speech synthesis (Telecommunications technology and applications 9), ed. by R. I. Damper, 149-172. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer.
  • Daelemans, Walter. 2002. A comparison of Analogical Modeling to Memory-Based Language Processing. In Analogical modeling: An exemplar-based approach to language, ed. by Royal Skousen, Deryle Lonsdale & Dilworth B. Parkinson, 158-177. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • Decadt, Bart, Jacques Duchateau, Walter Daelemans & Patrick Wambacq. 2001. Memory-based phoneme-to-grapheme conversion. In Computational linguistics in the Netherlands 2001: Selected papers from the twelfth CLIN meeting, 47-61. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
  • Eddington, David. 2002. A comparison of two models: Tilburg Memory-Based Learner Versus Analogical Modeling of Language. In Analogical Modeling: An exemplar-based approach to language, ed. by Royal Skousen, Deryle Lonsdale & Dilworth B. Parkinson, 141-155. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • ———. 2004. Issues in modeling language processing analogically. Lingua 114:849-71.
  • Ernestus, Mirjam and R. Harald Baayen. 2003. Predicting the unpredictable: Interpreting neutralized segments in Dutch. Language 79: 5-38.
  • Krott, Andrea, Robert Schreuder & R. Harald Baayen. 2002. Analogical hierarchy: Exemplar-based modeling of linkers in Dutch noun-noun compounds. In Analogical Modeling: An exemplar-based approach to language, ed. by Royal Skousen, Deryle Lonsdale & Dilworth B. Parkinson, 182-202. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • Rytting, C. Anton. 2000. An empirical test of Analogical Modeling: The /K/–ø alternation. In LACUS forum 26, ed. by Alan K. Melby and Arle R. Lommel, 73-84. Fullerton, CA: LACUS.
  • Skousen, Royal. 1998. Natural statistics in language modeling. Journal of quantitative linguistics 5:246-55.
  • ———. 2002. An overview of Analogical Modeling. In Analogical Modeling: An exemplar-based approach to language, ed. by Royal Skousen, Deryle Lonsdale & Dilworth B. Parkinson, 11-25. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • Van den Bosch, Antal, Alain Content, Walter Daelemans & Beatrice de Gelder. 1994. Measuring the complexity of writing systems. Journal of quantitative linguistics 1:178-188.
  • Van den Bosch, Antal & Walter Daelemans. 2000. A distributed, yet symbolic model of text-to-speech processing. In Models of language acquisition: Inductive and deductive approaches, ed. by Peter Broeder & Jaap M. J. Murre, 76-99. London: Oxford University Press.

TODO edit

I think this page needs an actual example of classification. It also needs an explanation of the algorithm used. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Garfieldnate (talkcontribs) 17:16, 10 May 2013 (UTC)Reply