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In a companion paper ([14]), I describe UNIVAUTO (UNIVersals AUthoring TOol), a linguistic discovery program that uncovers language universals and can write a report in English on its discoveries. In this contribution, the system is evaluated along a number of parameters that have been suggested in the literature as necessary ingredients of a successful discovery program. These parameters include the novelty, interestingness, plausibility and intelligibility of results, as well as the system’s portability and insightfulness.
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Pericliev, V. (2003). An Appraisal of UNIVAUTO – The First Discovery Program to Generate a Scientific Article. In: Grieser, G., Tanaka, Y., Yamamoto, A. (eds) Discovery Science. DS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2843. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39644-4_43
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