Abstract. The discovery of words by young infants involves two interrelated processes: (a) the detection of recurrent word-like acoustic patterns in the speech signal, and (b) cros...
Louis ten Bosch, Joris Driesen, Hugo Van Hamme, Lo...
Natural language is full of patterns that appear to fit with general linguistic rules but are ungrammatical. There has been much debate over how children acquire these ‘‘ling...
We propose a range of deep lexical acquisition methods which make use of morphological, syntactic and ontological language resources to model word similarity and bootstrap from a ...
In this paper, we show that stylistic text features can be exploited to determine an anonymous author's native language with high accuracy. Specifically, we first use automat...
We describe a pattern acquisition algorithm that learns, in an unsupervised fashion, a streamlined representation of linguistic structures from a plain natural-language corpus. Th...
Zach Solan, David Horn, Eytan Ruppin, Shimon Edelm...