... DatabaseRetrieval in a Learning Environment forJapanese as SecondLanguage ”, Proceedingsof AIED ’97, pp.247-254. Diagnostic Processing of Japanese for Computer- AssistedSecondLanguage Learning Jun’ichi ... the recent classroom of second language learning, communicative approach(H.G. Wid-dowson, 1977) is promoted in which it mat-ters for the students to become aware of the language use, i.e. the ... orinappropriate functions of their misused ex-pressions.We have already proposed a Computer- Assisted Language Learning( CALL) system(N.Kato et al., 1997) which provides the stu-dents with sample...
... which are interrelated when learning a second language. Unlike other research carried out in the area, Gardner's model looks specifically at secondlanguageacquisition in a structured ... Factor in Second Language Acquisition Jacqueline Norris-Holt This paper explores Gardner's socio-educational model and the significance of motivationas a contributing factor in secondlanguage ... amount of time spent studying the language and then output, expressed as linguistic performance when investigating language learning. In order to examine languagelearning in the Japanese context...
... of learning strategies in secondlanguageacquisition Primary strategy classification Representative secondary strategies Representative examples Strategies that directly affect learning ... the languagelearning tasks and activities are crossed modalities. Respondents were asked to describe their strategies in general in secondlanguage acquisition. Only gender differences in language ... the literature concerning gender differences in language learning, languagelearning strategies, as well as gender differences in languagelearning strategies and give rationale for the study....
... Association for Computational LinguisticsFast Online Lexicon Learning for Grounded Language Acquisition David L. ChenDepartment of Computer ScienceThe University of Texas at Austin1616 Guadalupe, ... USAdlcc@cs.utexas.eduAbstract Learning a semantic lexicon is often an impor-tant first step in building a system that learnsto interpret the meaning of natural language. It is especially important in language ground-ing ... approach.1 Introduction Learning to understand the semantics of human lan-guages has been one of the ultimate goals of natural language processing (NLP). Traditional learning ap-proaches have...
... 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 languageacquisition ... leading approach to language acquisition, largely in the tradition of generative linguistics, is motivated by the fact that although child language is different from adult language, it is different ... the inadequacies of the previous approaches to language acquisition, we will pro- pose a theory that aims to meet language learn- ability and language development conditions simul- taneously....
... language learning capabilities, or do we solely use the input from the environment to find struc-ture in language? Nativists believe that infants have an innate capability for acquiring language. ... speed and sequence with which they learn language. Noam Chomsky is one of the most cited languageacquisition nativists, claiming children can acquire language “On relatively slight exposure ... Reflections on Language . New York: Pantheon Books. N. Z. Kirkham, A. J. Slemmer and S. P. Johnson. 2002. Visual Statistical Learning in Infancy: Evi-dence for a Domain General Learning Mechanism....
... U.K. Keywords: computational lexicography; lexical acquisition ABSTRACT The SRI Core Language Engine (CLE) is a general-purpose natural language front end for interactive systems. It trans- ... version of the CLE was delivered in the summer of 1988 has been - 143 - LEXICAL ACQUISITION IN THE CORE LANGUAGE ENGINE David M. Carter SRI International Cambridge Research Centre 23 Millers ... application-independence of the CLE leads to a style of lexical acquisition differ- ent from that of earlier, dedicated natural- language front ends. I have argued for a technique based on a...
... Learning from triggers. Linguistic Inquiry, 27 (4), 605-622. Briscoe, T. (2000). Grammatical acquisition: Inductive bias and coevolution of language and the language acquisition device. Language, ... past learning events. A Word-Order Database for Testing Computational Models of LanguageAcquisition William Gregory Sakas Department of Computer Science PhD Programs in Linguistics and Computer ... 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 make readily...
... society and education, computer- assistedlanguagelearning is becoming the trend in foreign language teaching. Interactive computer network allows students to test the result of learning without the ... punished for any mistake. Learning does not have to be a pressure. Computer- assisted languagelearning can reduce the anxiety of students and turns out to be a positive side of learning (Gates, 1997). ... pace of learning. The English learning program will just serve the student's desired goal of learning. In one sense, students easily get the individual attention from the computer. Second, ...
... recognizethe speech input: the target language speechand the given source language text. The target language speech is a human-produced translationof the source language text. Statistical machinetranslation ... ModelsIn a speech-enabled computer- assisted translationsystem, we are given a source language sentencefJ1= f1. . . fj. . . fJ, which istobe translated intoa target language sentence eI1= ... LinguisticsIntegration of Speech to Computer- Assisted Translation UsingFinite-State AutomataShahram Khadivi Richard ZensLehrstuhl făur Informatik 6 – Computer Science DepartmentRWTH Aachen...
... mat-ters to be solved: First, an output language modelis needed to distinguish valid sentences from in-valid sentences in the target language, Pr(tI1). Second, a translation model, Pr(sJ1|tI1). ... called computer- assisted translation. In this framework, ahuman translator interacts with the sys-tem in order to obtain high-quality trans-lations. A statistical phrase-based ap-proach to computer- assisted ... 2004. From machine translation to computer assisted translation using finite-state mod-els. In Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Em-pirical Methods in Natural Language Processing(EMNLP04),...