Beyond Grammar: An Experience-based Theory of Language
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چکیده
In accordance with the general DOP architecture outlined by (Bod 1995b), a particular DOP model is described by specifying settings for the following four parameters: (1) a formal definition of a well-formed representation for utterance-analyses; (2) a definition of the fragments of the utterance-analyses that may be used as units in constructing an analysis of a new utterance; (3) a set of composition operations by which such fragments may be combined; and (4) a probability model that indicates how the probability of a new utterance analysis is computed on the basis of the fragments that combine to make it up.
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