LING 355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Transitive Verb, Computational Linguistics, Principle Of Compositionality
17 Dec 2016
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Today we are going to talk about similarity and complexity. This is an important topic in acquisition because you assume that what is more complex takes longer to learn. You might have subjective idea -- there is something that tells you that if you have something like printaclowp , it is more complex than pinateck. When developing a theory to explain how complex something is, you should be able to have a relatively objective way to define what is more and less complex. When working with computational linguistics, there must be a way to quantify the complexity of a string. A lot of people have assumed that complexity in syntax is, most of the time, distance . If the referent is farther away, it is more complex. If extracting something from a distance 6 words away, that is harder than doing it to one 2 words away.
