Cross-Situational Learning: A Mathematical Approach

Abstract. We present a mathematical model of cross-situational learning, in which we quantify the learnability of words and vocabularies. We find that high levels of uncertainty are not an impediment to learning single words or whole vocabulary systems, as long as the level of uncertainty is somewhat lower than the total number of meanings in the system. We further note that even large vocabularies are learnable through cross-situational learning.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: EELC
• Authors: Kenny Smith, Andrew D. M. Smith, Richard A. Blythe, Paul Vogt
• Keywords: Cross-situational Learning, EELC 2006, Languages, Mathematical Model, Single Words