Robert E. Goodin
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199547944
- eISBN:
- 9780191720116
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199547944.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics, Political Theory
Deliberative democrats offer ‘talk as a decision procedure’. This chapter argues that it is a good ‘discovery procedure’, particularly because of the way it expands the agenda; but talk is a flawed ...
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Deliberative democrats offer ‘talk as a decision procedure’. This chapter argues that it is a good ‘discovery procedure’, particularly because of the way it expands the agenda; but talk is a flawed ‘decision procedure’ because ‘path dependency’ can render its outcomes indeterminate or arbitrary. A risk of path dependency is inevitable, insofar as talk is a serial process with dynamic updating, as deliberative democrats want it to be. The best way to capture the benefits of ‘talk as a discovery procedure’, while avoiding the risks of ‘talk as a decision procedure’, is to adopt the rule: ‘first talk, then vote’.Less
Deliberative democrats offer ‘talk as a decision procedure’. This chapter argues that it is a good ‘discovery procedure’, particularly because of the way it expands the agenda; but talk is a flawed ‘decision procedure’ because ‘path dependency’ can render its outcomes indeterminate or arbitrary. A risk of path dependency is inevitable, insofar as talk is a serial process with dynamic updating, as deliberative democrats want it to be. The best way to capture the benefits of ‘talk as a discovery procedure’, while avoiding the risks of ‘talk as a decision procedure’, is to adopt the rule: ‘first talk, then vote’.
Jackson L. Lee
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780226562452
- eISBN:
- 9780226562599
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226562599.003.0010
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Phonetics / Phonology
On what linguistic theory is about, Chomsky (1957) discussed three views: the discovery procedure, the decision procedure, and the evaluation procedure. Chomsky rejected the discovery view for being ...
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On what linguistic theory is about, Chomsky (1957) discussed three views: the discovery procedure, the decision procedure, and the evaluation procedure. Chomsky rejected the discovery view for being “unreasonable” and argued for the evaluation view for being “practical”. Among the researchers who take the discussion seriously is John Goldsmith, with long-standing work on unsupervised learning of linguistic structure. While Goldsmith himself strongly sees his work as a response and realization of the evaluation procedure, this chapter makes the stronger claim that his research program is the higher-order goal of the discovery procedure. This chapter ends with methodological remarks on the importance of shaping linguistic research as an enterprise towards the discovery procedure.Less
On what linguistic theory is about, Chomsky (1957) discussed three views: the discovery procedure, the decision procedure, and the evaluation procedure. Chomsky rejected the discovery view for being “unreasonable” and argued for the evaluation view for being “practical”. Among the researchers who take the discussion seriously is John Goldsmith, with long-standing work on unsupervised learning of linguistic structure. While Goldsmith himself strongly sees his work as a response and realization of the evaluation procedure, this chapter makes the stronger claim that his research program is the higher-order goal of the discovery procedure. This chapter ends with methodological remarks on the importance of shaping linguistic research as an enterprise towards the discovery procedure.
John Goldsmith
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199547548
- eISBN:
- 9780191720628
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199547548.003.0007
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Psycholinguistics / Neurolinguistics / Cognitive Linguistics, Computational Linguistics
A range of approaches to word structure assume segmentation of words into morphs. This chapter proposes explicit algorithm that takes natural language text as its input, and produces the ...
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A range of approaches to word structure assume segmentation of words into morphs. This chapter proposes explicit algorithm that takes natural language text as its input, and produces the morphological structure of text as its output. Within this model, formal notions that correspond naturally to the traditional notion of analogy are useful and important as part of a boot-strapping heuristic for the discovery of morphological structure. At the same time, it is necessary to develop a refined quantitative model in order to find the kind of articulated linguistic structures that are to be found in natural languages.Less
A range of approaches to word structure assume segmentation of words into morphs. This chapter proposes explicit algorithm that takes natural language text as its input, and produces the morphological structure of text as its output. Within this model, formal notions that correspond naturally to the traditional notion of analogy are useful and important as part of a boot-strapping heuristic for the discovery of morphological structure. At the same time, it is necessary to develop a refined quantitative model in order to find the kind of articulated linguistic structures that are to be found in natural languages.
