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NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Learning Words and Their Meanings from Unsegmented Child-directed Speech
Most work on language acquisition treats word segmentation--the identification of linguistic segments from continuous speech-and word learning--the mapping of those segments to me...
Bevan K. Jones, Mark Johnson, Michael C. Frank
SMC
2010
IEEE
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13 years 2 months ago
Evaluating the performance of nonnegative matrix factorization for constructing semantic spaces: Comparison to latent semantic a
—This study examines the ability of nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) as a method for constructing semantic spaces, in which the meaning of each word is represented by a hig...
Akira Utsumi
COGSCI
2010
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13 years 4 months ago
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
SWAP
2008
13 years 5 months ago
Improving Retrieval Experience Exploiting Semantic Representation of Documents
The traditional strategy performed by Information Retrieval (IR) systems is ranked keyword search: for a given query, a list of documents, ordered by relevance, is returned. Releva...
Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo, Anna Lisa Genti...
ESWS
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Enhancing Semantic Search using N-Levels Document Representation
The traditional strategy performed by Information Retrieval (IR) systems is ranked keyword search: For a given query, a list of documents, ordered by relevance, is returned. Releva...
Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo, Anna Lisa Genti...
ECML
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Discovering Word Meanings Based on Frequent Termsets
Word meaning ambiguity has always been an important problem in information retrieval and extraction, as well as, text mining (documents clustering and classification). Knowledge di...
Henryk Rybinski, Marzena Kryszkiewicz, Grzegorz Pr...