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English Past Tense

Language

b D, Y

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Further specifications

English past tense

Type

Format

Complexity

ILP

Prolog

1392 facts (in the largest alph. past data)

WWW / FTP

ftp://ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/mooney/nl-ilp-data

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References

Raymond J. Mooney and Mary Elaine Califf
"Induction of First-Order Decision Lists: Results
on Learning the Past Tense of English Verbs"
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, June 1995
C. X. Ling
"Learning the Past Tense of English Verbs: The Symbolic
Pattern Associator vs. Connectionist Models"
JAIR, Vol.1, pp. 209--229, 1994

Annotations

This dataset provides a Prolog form of the data studied in [Ling 94] and assembled by Brian McWhinney at CMU, originally. It gives the past-tense of a set of English verbs, also see ftp://ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/mooney/papers/foidl-jair-95.ps and ../papers/foidl-bkchapter-95.ps

The data are devided into three files. The file alphabetic-past-data contains the normal English spelling forms for the verbs. phonetic-past-data contains the phonetic forms for all of the verbs in the data set and regular-phonetic-past-data contains the phonetic forms for the regular verbs only. Finally, the file past-background-defn consists of the intensional definition for split/3, the background predicate used in experiments on this data with Foidl and IFoil. The used notation is selfexplanatory, which could be shown on a sample fact from the alphabetic-past-data file:

past(['A','I','D'],['A','I','D','E','D']).

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