A central problem in grounded language acquisition is learning the correspondences between a rich world state and a stream of text which references that world state. To deal with ...
We investigate the problem of learning a part-of-speech (POS) lexicon for a resource-poor language, dialectal Arabic. Developing a high-quality lexicon is often the first step tow...
This paper presents a new learning method for automatic acquisition of translation knowledge from parallel corpora. We apply this learning method to automatic extraction of bilingu...
The distance or similarity metric plays an important role in many natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Previous studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of a number of metr...
Abstract. Most cognitive studies of language acquisition in both natural systems and artificial systems have focused on the role of purely linguistic information as the central co...