Optimality: From Neural Networks to Universal Grammar

By A. Prince, Paul Smolensky. 1997

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Deep Learning: Methods and Applications (2014, background): “, they can potentially perform powerful reasoning over structures, as argued in various historical publications as well as recent essays [38, 156, 286, 288, 292, 336, 335].”
A free energy principle for the brain. (2006, background): “A Lyapunov function is a scalar function of a systems state that decreases with time; it is also referred to colloquially as a Harmony function in the neural network literature (Prince and Smolensky, 1997).”
Principles of Synthetic Intelligence: Psi: An Architecture of Motivated Cognition (2009, background): “The latter have been extended into the ICS architecture (Smolensky & Legendre, 2005), which is based on Optimality Theory and Harmonic Grammars (Prince & Smolensky, 1991, 1997, 2004).”
Three Exemplars Allow at Least Some Linguistic Generalizations: Implications for Generalization Mechanisms and Constraints (2008, unknown): “…concerns structural principles for assigning stress to syllables in multisyllabic words, and it is central to a discussion of linguistic generalization (Demuth, 1996; Dresher, 1999; Dresher & Kaye, 1990; Gupta & Touretzky, 1994; Hayes, 1994; Prince & Smolensky, 1997; Tesar & Smolensky, 1998).”
The concept of entrainment and its significance for ethnomusicology (2004, background): “The principles provide a set of innate constraints that define the set of possible human languages (Prince & Smolensky, 1997).”
What Is Optimality Theory? (2007, background): “Other overviews of this topic, in approximate order of increasing length and depth of coverage, include Archangeli (1997), Tesar, Grimshaw, and Prince (1999), Kager (1999: 1–51), Prince and Smolensky (1997; 2003), McCarthy (2002: 3–47; 2003a), and Smolensky, Legendre, and Tesar (2006).”
Moral competence in social robots (2014, unknown): “[36]).”
Weighted Constraints in Generative Linguistics (2009, methodology): “It then goes on to elaborate on the J. Pater ⁄Cognitive Science 33 (2009) 1001 equivalence between the two theories when trade-offs are symmetric, using an example that Prince and Smolensky (1997) in fact present as an illustration of the special properties of OT’s ranked constraints.”