no code implementations • RANLP 2017 • Dimitar Kazakov, Guido Cordoni, Andrea Ceolin, Monica-Alex Irimia, rina, Shin-Sook Kim, Dimitris Michelioudakis, Nina Radkevich, Cristina Guardiano, Giuseppe Longobardi
The use of parameters in the description of natural language syntax has to balance between the need to discriminate among (sometimes subtly different) languages, which can be seen as a cross-linguistic version of Chomsky{'}s (1964) descriptive adequacy, and the complexity of the acquisition task that a large number of parameters would imply, which is a problem for explanatory adequacy.