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COGSCI
2010
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The Logical Problem of Language Acquisition: A Probabilistic Perspective
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...
Anne S. Hsu, Nick Chater
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
JACM
2002
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Cosmological lower bound on the circuit complexity of a small problem in logic
An exponential lower bound on the circuit complexity of deciding the weak monadic second-order theory of one successor (WS1S) is proved. Circuits are built from binary operations, ...
Larry J. Stockmeyer, Albert R. Meyer
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KI
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Extending Markov Logic to Model Probability Distributions in Relational Domains
Abstract. Markov logic, as a highly expressive representation formalism that essentially combines the semantics of probabilistic graphical models with the full power of first-orde...
Dominik Jain, Bernhard Kirchlechner, Michael Beetz
ACL
1997
13 years 6 months ago
Co-evolution of Language and of the Language Acquisition Device
A new account of parameter setting during grammatical acquisition is presented in terms of Generalized Categorial Grammar embedded in a default inheritance hierarchy, providing a ...
Ted Briscoe