"6177","A MDL-based Model of Gender Knowledge Acquisition","This paper presents an iterative model of  knowledge acquisition of gender information  associated with word endings in  French. Gender knowledge is represented  as a set of rules containing exceptions.  Our model takes noun-gender pairs as input  and constantly maintains a list of  rules and exceptions which is both coherent  with the input data and minimal with  respect to a minimum description length  criterion. This model was compared to  human data at various ages and showed a  good fit. We also compared the kind of  rules discovered by the model with rules  usually extracted by linguists and found  interesting discrepancies.","http://cogprints.org/6177/","Marchal, Harmony and Lemaire, Benoit and Bianco, Maryse and Dessus, Philippe","Clark, Alex and Toutanova, Kristina","       <span class=\"person_name\">Marchal, Harmony</span> and <span class=\"person_name\">Lemaire, Benoit</span> and <span class=\"person_name\">Bianco, Maryse</span> and <span class=\"person_name\">Dessus, Philippe</span>     (2008)  <a href=\"http://cogprints.org/6177/\"><em>A MDL-based Model of Gender Knowledge Acquisition.</em></a>       [Conference Paper]           ","","2008"