How to Define Simulated Annealing for Optimality Theory ?

Optimality Theory (OT) requires an algorithm optimising the Harmony function on the set of candidates. Simulated annealing, a well-known heuristic technique for combinatorial optimisation, has been argued to be an empirically adequate solution to this problem. In order to generalise simulated annealing for a non-real valued Harmony function, two representations of a violation profile are proposed: by using polynomials and ordinal numbers.

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