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CORR
1998
Springer
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The Proper Treatment of Optimality in Computational Phonology
Abstract. This paper presents a novel formalization of optimality theory. Unlike previous treatments of optimality in computational linguistics, starting with Ellison 1994, the n...
Lauri Karttunen
CORR
2000
Springer
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Approximation and Exactness in Finite State Optimality Theory
Previous work (Frank and Satta, 1998; Karttunen, 1998) has shown that Optimality Theory with gradient constraints generally is not finite state. A new finite-state treatment of gr...
Dale Gerdemann, Gertjan van Noord
ACL
1996
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On Reversing the Generation Process in Optimality Theory
Optimality Theory, a constraint-based phonology and morphology paradigm, has allowed linguists to make elegant analyses of many phenomena, including infixation and reduplication. ...
J. Eric Fosler