Conference on Analogical Modeling of Language (AML)

Tutorial Program

Date: Wednesday, March 22, 2000

Location: Room 3045D JKHB (Jesse Knight Humanities Building)

10:00  Basic introduction to AML (Royal Skousen)

articles in Rivista di Linguistica and Quantitative Linguistics: An International Handbook

different approaches

rule: symbolic

non-rule: connectionist

exemplar / instance-based

near neighbor

analogy (AML)

simple example (English spelling)

local predictions / unlimited variables

sorta- from Finnish

exponential explosion

11:00  Setting up AML data files (Deryle Lonsdale)

restrictions (section 3.1 of AML book)

proximity

phoneme and syllabic identity

maximal differentiation

tokens versus types

true zeros versus nulls

difficulties / cautions

demonstrate sample application(s)

2:00  Running the Perl program (Dil Parkinson)

options in running the program

null (exclude)

given (include/exclude)

probability

repeat

format spaces (2 types)

linear or squared

output to file

specify frequency

all

1st n if types ranked by frequency

3:00  Demonstration of TIMBL (Walter Daelemans and Antal van den Bosch)