models of first language acquisition

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: "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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Báo cáo khoa học: "Acquisition of Conceptual Data Models from Natural Language Descriptions" doc

Báo cáo khoa học: "Acquisition of Conceptual Data Models from Natural Language Descriptions" doc

Ngày tải lên : 09/03/2014, 01:20
... instances of complete natural language interfaces which comprise beth syntactic and semantic components. As such they are potential models for the development of interfaces to new types of software ... Warren and Pereira (1982) inter a//a. 245 Acquisition of Conceptual Data Models from Natural Language Descriptions William J.Black, Department of Computation, UMIST, PO Box 88, Sackville ... avoid the general theoretical problem of what a semantics of natural language should consist of by an operational approach in which the propositional content of a sentence is represented by a...
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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 ... has, first of all, helped to clarify the concept of language learning strategy and what it comprises. It has also confirmed the contribution of language learning strategy to learners’ language ... 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: "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 ... Selectionist Model of Language Acquisition 2.1 The Dynamics of Darwinian Evolution Essential to Darwinian evolution is the concept of variational thinking (Lewontin, 1983). First, differ- 1...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Effect of Cross-Language IR in Bilingual Lexicon Acquisition from Comparable Corpora" pot

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Effect of Cross-Language IR in Bilingual Lexicon Acquisition from Comparable Corpora" pot

Ngày tải lên : 22/02/2014, 02:20
... con- tents (e.g., a pair of a crime report and the arrest 355 Table 1: Statistics of # of Days, Articles, and Article Sizes Site Total # of Days Total # of of Articles Average # of Articles per Day Average ... with the help of cross -language retrieval of relevant texts is quite effective in improving the performance of precise estimation of bilingual term correspondences. 2 Acquisition of Bilingual ... used. 3 Acquisition of Bilingual Term Correspondences from Cross- Lingually Relevant Texts 3.1 Cross -Language Retrieval of Rele- vant News Articles This section gives the overview of our framework of...
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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: "The use of formal language models in the typology of the morphology of Amerindian languages" potx

Báo cáo khoa học: "The use of formal language models in the typology of the morphology of Amerindian languages" potx

Ngày tải lên : 07/03/2014, 22:20
... Linguistics The use of formal language models in the typology of the morphology of Amerindian languages Andr ´ es Osvaldo Porta Universidad de Buenos Aires hugporta@yahoo.com.ar Abstract The aim of this ... some preliminary results of an investigation in course on the typology of the morphol- ogy of the native South American lan- guages from the point of view of the for- mal language theory. With this ... examples of de- scriptions of two Aboriginal languages fi- nite verb forms morphology: Argentinean Quechua (quichua santiague˜no) and Toba. The description of the morphology of the finite verb forms of...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Re-Ranking Models For Spoken Language Understanding Marco Dinarelli University of Trento Italy" potx

Báo cáo khoa học: "Re-Ranking Models For Spoken Language Understanding Marco Dinarelli University of Trento Italy" potx

Ngày tải lên : 08/03/2014, 21:20
... SRILM tools and then converted to an FST. This allows the use of a wide set of stochastic language models (both back-off and interpolated models with several dis- counting techniques like Good-Turing, ... evalu- ation of spoken understanding models and linguis- tic studies. The corpus is composed of 1257 di- alogs, from 250 different speakers, acquired with a Wizard of Oz (WOZ) approach in the context of ... PTK and SK. We note that: First, the small size of WOZ training set (only 1,019 turns) impacts on the accuracy of the sys- tems, e.g. FST and SVMs, which achieved a CER of 18.2% and 23.4%, respectively,...
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EXPLORING ENGLISH SECOND LANGUAGE SPEAKERS’ SCIENTIFIC WRITING SKILLS STRATEGIES OF FIRST YEAR LIFE SCIENCES STUDENTS docx

EXPLORING ENGLISH SECOND LANGUAGE SPEAKERS’ SCIENTIFIC WRITING SKILLS STRATEGIES OF FIRST YEAR LIFE SCIENCES STUDENTS docx

Ngày tải lên : 10/03/2014, 05:20
... tools could include the use of a set of questions instead of a rubric to assess the efforts of English Second Language students. Ongoing academic support in the form of mentoring should be provided ... acquisition of English as medium of communication – the spoken and written word – but also as a member of the scientific community in the acquisition of the language of science and subsequently ... promote language acquisition. However Bialystok (1987) on the other hand differs from Krashen and proposes that conscious learning of a second language does serve as a vehicle in the learning or acquisition...
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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 ... depend. Table 2: Summary of model properties 4.6 Models summary, observations Table 2 lists which of Models 1–5 show each of the desired properties (from Đ3.2), corresponding to aspects of the observed...
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