Katya Pertsova


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2025

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Probing Neural Network Generalization using Default Patterns
Brandon Prickett | Tianyi Niu | Katya Pertsova
Proceedings of the 22nd SIGMORPHON workshop on Computational Morphology, Phonology, and Phonetics

Whether neural-net models can learn minoritydefault patterns has been a matter of some controversy. Results based on modeling real human language data are hard to interpret due to complexity. Therefore, we examine the learning of a simple artificial language pattern involving defaults using three computational models”:" an Encoder-Decoder RNN, a Transformer Encoder, and a Logistic Regression. Overall, we find that the models have the hardest time with minority defaults, but can eventually learn them and apply them to novel words (although not always extend them to completely novel segments or novel CV-sequences). Typefrequency has the largest effect on learning in all models, trumping the effect of distribution. We examine the weights of two models to provide further insights into how defaults are represented inside the models.

2012

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Linguistic categorization and complexity
Katya Pertsova
Proceedings of the Twelfth Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Computational Morphology and Phonology

2009

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Comparing Learners for Boolean partitions: Implications for Morphological Paradigms
Katya Pertsova
Proceedings of the EACL 2009 Workshop on Computational Linguistic Aspects of Grammatical Inference