theoretical models of language acquisition

Báo cáo khoa học: "A Word-Order Database for Testing Computational Models of Language Acquisition" docx

Báo cáo khoa học: "A Word-Order Database for Testing Computational Models of Language Acquisition" docx

Ngày tải lên : 08/03/2014, 04:22
... efficiency of parameter-setting acquisition models. We have recently run experiments of seven parameter-setting (P&P) models of acquisition on the domain. What follows is a brief discussion of ... resource for investigators interested in computational models of natural language acquisition. 2 The Language Domain Database The focus of the language domain database, (hereafter LDD), is to ... 27 (4), 605-622. Briscoe, T. (2000). Grammatical acquisition: Inductive bias and coevolution of language and the language acquisition device. Language, 76 (2), 245-296. Chomsky, N. (1981) Lectures...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "A Selectionist Theory of Language Acquisition" docx

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "A Selectionist Theory of Language Acquisition" docx

Ngày tải lên : 20/02/2014, 19:20
... ignored in the for- mal studies of language acquisition. In the rest of this section, I show that if this condition is taken se- riously, previous models of language acquisition have difficulties ... population of grammars Learning, including language acquisition, can be characterized as a sequence of states in which the learner moves from one state to another. Transfor- mational models of language ... Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139 charles@ai, mit. edu Abstract This paper argues that developmental patterns in child language be taken seriously in computational models of language acquisition, ...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Compositional Matrix-Space Models of Language" potx

Báo cáo khoa học: "Compositional Matrix-Space Models of Language" potx

Ngày tải lên : 07/03/2014, 22:20
... intersection of two matricible languages is again a matricible language. Proof. This is a direct consequence of the con- siderations in Section 6 together with the observa- tion, that the new set of acceptance ... (non-context-free) language {a m b m c m | m > 0}. The following properties of matrix grammars and matricible language are straightforward. Proposition 2 All languages characterized by a set of linear ... underlying word space models; e.g., the models of Widdows (2008) and Giesbrecht (2009) feature dimensionality reduction while that of Mitchell and Lapata (2008) does not. In the light of these findings,...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Combining data and mathematical models of language change" ppt

Báo cáo khoa học: "Combining data and mathematical models of language change" ppt

Ngày tải lên : 17/03/2014, 00:20
... Psychocom- putational Models of Human Language Acquisition, pages 10–19. ACL. P. Niyogi and R.C. Berwick. 1995. The logical prob- lem of language change. AI Memo 1516, MIT. P. Niyogi and R.C. Berwick. 1996. A language ... origins of structure in human language. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(31):10681–10686. S. Klein, M.A. Kuppin, and K.A. Meives. 1969. Monte Carlo simulation of language ... 2001. The evolutionary dynamics of grammar acquisition. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 209(1):43–60. F. Landsbergen. 2009. Cultural evolutionary modeling of patterns in language change: exercises...
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(1) how learners approach learning, both in and out of classrooms, and (2) the kinds of strategies and cognitive processing they use in second language acquisition

(1) how learners approach learning, both in and out of classrooms, and (2) the kinds of strategies and cognitive processing they use in second language acquisition

Ngày tải lên : 29/01/2014, 00:23
... true of me”; (2) “Usually not true of me”, (3) “Somewhat true of me”, (4) “Usually true of me” or (5) “Always true of me”. For the convenience of the respondents and the researcher’s purpose of ... improve competence in a second language . Therefore, the language learner capable of using a wide variety of language learning strategies appropriately can improve his language skills in a better ... statement is (1)“Never true of me”; (2)“Usually not true of me”, (3) “Somewhat true of me”, (4) “Usually true of me” or (5) “Always true of me”. The whole set of questionnaire was translated...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "The impact of language models and loss functions on repair disfluency detection" pptx

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "The impact of language models and loss functions on repair disfluency detection" pptx

Ngày tải lên : 20/02/2014, 04:20
... of a variety of language models trained from text or speech corpora of vari- ous genres and sizes. The largest available language models are based on written text: we investigate the effect of ... text language models as opposed to language models based on speech transcripts. Sec- ond, we develop a new set of reranker features ex- plicitly designed to capture important properties of speech ... set of reranker features, which consisted of features for all of the language models plus the extended (i.e., indicator) features, and used this model to analyse the test data. The f- score of...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Web augmentation of language models for continuous speech recognition of SMS text messages" docx

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Web augmentation of language models for continuous speech recognition of SMS text messages" docx

Ngày tải lên : 22/02/2014, 02:20
... size of the web mixture LM is limited to the size of the baseline in-domain LM. 1 Introduction An automatic speech recognition (ASR) system consists of acoustic models of speech sounds and of a ... Kneser- Ney smoothed n-gram models. IEEE Transac- tions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 15(5):1617–1624. A. Stolcke. 1998. Entropy-based pruning of backoff language models. In Proc. DARPA ... FSTs of differ- ent sizes. The FSTs contain the acoustic models, language model and lexicon, but the LM makes up for most of the size. The availability of data varies for the different languages,...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Automatic Acquisition of Language Model based on Head-Dependent Relation between Words" pdf

Báo cáo khoa học: "Automatic Acquisition of Language Model based on Head-Dependent Relation between Words" pdf

Ngày tải lên : 08/03/2014, 05:21
... Based n-gram Models of Natural Language& quot;. Computational Linguistics, 18(4):467-480. C. Chang and C. Chen. 1996. "Application Is- sues of SA-class Bigram Language Models& quot;. ... Acquisi- tion of Language Models for Speech Recog- nition". Master's thesis, Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology. M. Meteer and J.R. Rohlicek. 1993. "Statis- tical Language ... "Scalable Trigram Backoff Language Models& quot;. Techni- cal Report CMU-CS-96-139, Carnegie Mellon University. S. Sneff. 1992. "TINA: A natural language sys- tem for spoken language applications"....
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Báo cáo khoa học: "HIDDEN UNDERSTANDING MODELS OF NATURAL LANGUAGE" ppt

Báo cáo khoa học: "HIDDEN UNDERSTANDING MODELS OF NATURAL LANGUAGE" ppt

Ngày tải lên : 08/03/2014, 07:20
... states of each of the two models are unseen and must be inferred from the words. The problem of language understanding, then, is to recover the most likely meaning structure given a sequence of ... these techniques are capable of relatively high levels of performance. While hidden understanding models are based primarily on the concepts of hidden Markov models, we have also shown their ... techniques. Empirical results, including the results of an ARPA 31 HIDDEN UNDERSTANDING MODELS OF NATURAL LANGUAGE Scott Miller College of Computer Science Northeastern University Boston,...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Discriminative Pruning of Language Models for Chinese Word Segmentation" ppt

Báo cáo khoa học: "Discriminative Pruning of Language Models for Chinese Word Segmentation" ppt

Ngày tải lên : 17/03/2014, 04:20
... pruning method of n-gram language model for Chinese word segmentation. To reduce the size of the language model that is used in a Chinese word segmenta- tion system, importance of each bigram ... Natural Language Parsing. In Machine Learning: Proc. of 17 th International Conference (ICML- 2000), pages 175-182. Jianfeng Gao and Kai-Fu Lee. 2000. Distribution- based pruning of backoff language ... Proc. of the 42 nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Lin- guistics (ACL-2004), pages 47-54. Kristie Seymore and Ronald Rosenfeld. 1996. Scal- able Backoff Language Models. ...
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The role of language in adult education and poverty reduction in Botswan

The role of language in adult education and poverty reduction in Botswan

Ngày tải lên : 05/11/2012, 16:27
... national language policy currently in place in Botswana, is that Setswana is the national language of the country (Republic of Botswana 1985:8). So, despite the existence of other local languages, ... parts of the world, education is for the most part the preserve of the few (elites). The choice of which language or dialect to use to teach (medium of instruction) reflects the interests of those ... second and even third languages are added to the learners’ repertoire of language systems whilst sustaining the primary language through the schooling process instead of subtractive bilingualism...
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bai 13 use of language

bai 13 use of language

Ngày tải lên : 05/07/2013, 01:26
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