Recent research suggests that language evolution is a process of cultural change, in which linguistic structures are shaped through repeated cycles of learning and use by domain-g...
Words are the essence of communication: they are the building blocks of any language. Learning the meaning of words is thus one of the most important aspects of language acquisiti...
This paper proposes a new method for automatic acquisition of Chinese bracketing knowledge from English-Chinese sentencealigned bilingual corpora. Bilingual sentence pairs are fir...
We present a game-based interface for acquiring common sense knowledge. In addition to being interactive and entertaining, our interface guides the knowledge acquisition process t...
Robert Speer, Jayant Krishnamurthy, Catherine Hava...
Abstract. Recent work in the field of computational evolutionary linguistics suggests that the dynamics arising from the cultural evolution of language can explain the emergence o...