We present a method of grounded word learning that is powerful enough to learn the meanings of first and second person pronouns. The model uses the understood words in an utteran...
Much of human knowledge is organized into sophisticated systems that are often called intuitive theories. We propose that intuitive theories are mentally represented in a logical ...
We propose a new model for unsupervised POS tagging based on linguistic distinctions between open and closed-class items. Exploiting notions from current linguistic theory, the sy...
Acquisition of prosody, in addition to vocabulary and grammar, is essential for language learners. However, it has received less attention in instruction. To enable automatic iden...
Abstract. While classical approaches to unsupervised morphology acquisition often rely on metrics based on information theory for identifying morphemes, we describe a novel approac...