Recurrent Neural Networks in Linguistic Theory: Revisiting Pinker and Prince (1988) and the Past Tense Debate

arXiv:1807.04783 · cs.CL · Submitted 2018-07-12 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2018-07-12

Updated: 2026-08-25

Comments: TACL 2018

Code: https://github.com/ckirov/RevisitPinkerAndPrince

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Accuracy — 14× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Generalization — 12× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Decode — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alternation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Attention Mechanism — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Sound Pattern of English — 2× in this paper
• Associative Memory — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Bayesian Inference — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Copula — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Minimal Generalization Learner — 1× in this paper
• Objective Function — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate
• ADADELTA: An Adaptive Learning Rate Method

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