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COGSCI
2010
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Language Acquisition Meets Language Evolution
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...
Nick Chater, Morten H. Christiansen
COGSCI
2010
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A Probabilistic Computational Model of Cross-Situational Word Learning
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...
Afsaneh Fazly, Afra Alishahi, Suzanne Stevenson
COLING
2002
13 years 7 months ago
Learning Chinese Bracketing Knowledge Based on a Bilingual Language Model
This paper proposes a new method for automatic acquisition of Chinese bracketing knowledge from English-Chinese sentencealigned bilingual corpora. Bilingual sentence pairs are fir...
Yajuan Lü, Sheng Li, Tiejun Zhao, Muyun Yang
IUI
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
An interface for targeted collection of common sense knowledge using a mixture model
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...
ECAL
2001
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
The Survival of the Smallest: Stability Conditions for the Cultural Evolution of Compositional Language
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...
Henry Brighton, Simon Kirby