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Research in linguistics and computa0074ional linguistics has been dominated by symbolic approaches for more than 30 years. But in the last years the successful application of neural nets to a wide range of different tasks has led to a growing interest in sub-symbolic systems. The aim of this paper is to contrast both approaches by applying them to a well-defined linguistic problem.
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Badry, P., Naumann, S. (1996). Gender Classification of German Nouns: Symbolic and Sub-Symbolic Approaches. In: Bock, HH., Polasek, W. (eds) Data Analysis and Information Systems. Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80098-6_42
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