Emergence of Syntax Needs Minimal Supervision
Raphaël Bailly, Kata Gábor · 2020
This paper is a theoretical contribution to the debate on the learnability of syntax from a corpus without explicit syntax-specific guidance.Our approach originates in the observable structure of a corpus, which we use to define and isolate grammaticality (syntactic information) and meaning/pragmatics information.We describe the formal characteristics of an autonomous syntax and show that it becomes possible to search for syntax-based lexical categories with a simple optimization process, without any prior hypothesis on the form of the model.