Cognitive Aspects Of Computational Language Acquisition

Author : Aline Villavicencio,Thierry Poibeau,Anna Korhonen,Afra Alishahi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642318634

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Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Acquisition by Aline Villavicencio,Thierry Poibeau,Anna Korhonen,Afra Alishahi Pdf

Questions related to language acquisition have been of interest for many centuries, as children seem to acquire a sophisticated capacity for processing language with apparent ease, in the face of ambiguity, noise and uncertainty. However, with recent advances in technology and cognitive-related research it is now possible to conduct large-scale computational investigations of these issues The book discusses some of the latest theoretical and practical developments in the areas involved, including computational models for language tasks, tools and resources that help to approximate the linguistic environment available to children during acquisition, and discussions of challenging aspects of language that children have to master. This is a much-needed collection that provides a cross-section of recent multidisciplinary research on the computational modeling of language acquisition. It is targeted at anyone interested in the relevance of computational techniques for understanding language acquisition. Readers of this book will be introduced to some of the latest approaches to these tasks including: * Models of acquisition of various types of linguistic information (from words to syntax and semantics) and their relevance to research on human language acquisition * Analysis of linguistic and contextual factors that influence acquisition * Resources and tools for investigating these tasks Each chapter is presented in a self-contained manner, providing a detailed description of the relevant aspects related to research on language acquisition, and includes illustrations and tables to complement these in-depth discussions. Though there are no formal prerequisites, some familiarity with the basic concepts of human and computational language acquisition is beneficial.

Author : Afra Alishahi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783031021404

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Computational Modeling of Human Language Acquisition by Afra Alishahi Pdf

Human language acquisition has been studied for centuries, but using computational modeling for such studies is a relatively recent trend. However, computational approaches to language learning have become increasingly popular, mainly due to advances in developing machine learning techniques, and the availability of vast collections of experimental data on child language learning and child-adult interaction. Many of the existing computational models attempt to study the complex task of learning a language under cognitive plausibility criteria (such as memory and processing limitations that humans face), and to explain the developmental stages observed in children. By simulating the process of child language learning, computational models can show us which linguistic representations are learnable from the input that children have access to, and which mechanisms yield the same patterns of behaviour that children exhibit during this process. In doing so, computational modeling provides insight into the plausible mechanisms involved in human language acquisition, and inspires the development of better language models and techniques. This book provides an overview of the main research questions in the field of human language acquisition. It reviews the most commonly used computational frameworks, methodologies and resources for modeling child language learning, and the evaluation techniques used for assessing these computational models. The book is aimed at cognitive scientists who want to become familiar with the available computational methods for investigating problems related to human language acquisition, as well as computational linguists who are interested in applying their skills to the study of child language acquisition. Different aspects of language learning are discussed in separate chapters, including the acquisition of the individual words, the general regularities which govern word and sentence form, and the associations between form and meaning. For each of these aspects, the challenges of the task are discussed and the relevant empirical findings on children are summarized. Furthermore, the existing computational models that attempt to simulate the task under study are reviewed, and a number of case studies are presented. Table of Contents: Overview / Computational Models of Language Learning / Learning Words / Putting Words Together / Form--Meaning Associations / Final Thoughts

Author : Thierry Poibeau,Aline Villavicencio
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781107162228

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Language, Cognition, and Computational Models by Thierry Poibeau,Aline Villavicencio Pdf

This book uses recent computational models to explore issues related to language and cognition.

Author : Bernadette Sharp,Rodolfo Delmonte
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781501501319

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Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science by Bernadette Sharp,Rodolfo Delmonte Pdf

Peer reviewed articles from the Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science (NLPCS) 2014 meeting in October 2014 workshop.The meeting fosters interactions among researchers and practitioners in NLP by taking a Cognitive Science perspective. Articles cover topics such as artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive psychology and language learning.

Author : Sylvain Pogodalla,Jean-Philippe Prost
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642222207

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Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics by Sylvain Pogodalla,Jean-Philippe Prost Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics, LACL 2011, held in Montpellier, France, in June/July 2011. The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. The papers address a wide range of logical and formal methods in computational linguistics such as type-theoretic grammars, dependency grammars, formal language theory, grammatical inference, minimalism, generation, and lexical and formal semantics.

Author : Hinrich Schütze
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1997-05-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1575860740

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Ambiguity Resolution in Language Learning by Hinrich Schütze Pdf

This volume is concerned with how ambiguity and ambiguity resolution are learned, that is, with the acquisition of the different representations of ambiguous linguistic forms and the knowledge necessary for selecting among them in context. Schütze concentrates on how the acquisition of ambiguity is possible in principle and demonstrates that particular types of algorithms and learning architectures (such as unsupervised clustering and neural networks) can succeed at the task. Three types of lexical ambiguity are treated: ambiguity in syntactic categorisation, semantic categorisation, and verbal subcategorisation. The volume presents three different models of ambiguity acquisition: Tag Space, Word Space, and Subcat Learner, and addresses the importance of ambiguity in linguistic representation and its relevance for linguistic innateness.

Author : Alexander Gelbukh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642121166

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Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing by Alexander Gelbukh Pdf

th CICLing 2010 was the 11 Annual Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics. The CICLing conferences provide a wide-scope forum for discussion of the art and craft of natural language processing research as well as the best practices in its applications. This volume contains three invited papers and the regular papers accepted for oral presentation at the conference. The papers accepted for poster pres- tation were published in a special issue of another journal (see information on thewebsite).Since 2001,theproceedingsofCICLingconferenceshavebeen p- lished in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, as volumes 2004, 2276, 2588, 2945, 3406, 3878, 4394, 4919, and 5449. The volume is structured into 12 sections: – Lexical Resources – Syntax and Parsing – Word Sense Disambiguation and Named Entity Recognition – Semantics and Dialog – Humor and Emotions – Machine Translation and Multilingualism – Information Extraction – Information Retrieval – Text Categorization and Classi?cation – Plagiarism Detection – Text Summarization – Speech Generation The 2010 event received a record high number of submissions in the - year history of the CICLing series. A total of 271 papers by 565 authors from 47 countriesweresubmittedforevaluationbytheInternationalProgramCommittee (see Tables 1 and 2). This volume contains revised versions of 61 papers, by 152 authors, selected for oral presentation; the acceptance rate was 23%.

Author : Adrian Brasoveanu,Jakub Dotlačil
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : 9783030318468

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Computational Cognitive Modeling and Linguistic Theory by Adrian Brasoveanu,Jakub Dotlačil Pdf

This open access book introduces a general framework that allows natural language researchers to enhance existing competence theories with fully specified performance and processing components. Gradually developing increasingly complex and cognitively realistic competence-performance models, it provides running code for these models and shows how to fit them to real-time experimental data. This computational cognitive modeling approach opens up exciting new directions for research in formal semantics, and linguistics more generally, and offers new ways of (re)connecting semantics and the broader field of cognitive science. The approach of this book is novel in more ways than one. Assuming the mental architecture and procedural modalities of Anderson's ACT-R framework, it presents fine-grained computational models of human language processing tasks which make detailed quantitative predictions that can be checked against the results of self-paced reading and other psycho-linguistic experiments. All models are presented as computer programs that readers can run on their own computer and on inputs of their choice, thereby learning to design, program and run their own models. But even for readers who won't do all that, the book will show how such detailed, quantitatively predicting modeling of linguistic processes is possible. A methodological breakthrough and a must for anyone concerned about the future of linguistics! (Hans Kamp) This book constitutes a major step forward in linguistics and psycholinguistics. It constitutes a unique synthesis of several different research traditions: computational models of psycholinguistic processes, and formal models of semantics and discourse processing. The work also introduces a sophisticated python-based software environment for modeling linguistic processes. This book has the potential to revolutionize not only formal models of linguistics, but also models of language processing more generally. (Shravan Vasishth) .

Author : Anna Esposito,Gennaro Cordasco,Carl Vogel,Péter Baranyi
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832519035

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Cognitive infocommunications by Anna Esposito,Gennaro Cordasco,Carl Vogel,Péter Baranyi Pdf

Author : Hagen Peukert
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268693

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Transfer Effects in Multilingual Language Development by Hagen Peukert Pdf

This volume, dedicated to language transfer, starts out with state-of-the-art psycholinguistic approaches to language transfer involving studies on psycho-typological transfer, lexical interference and foreign accent. The next chapter on Transfer in Language Learning, Contact, and Change presents new empirical data from several languages (English, German, Russian, French, Italian) on various transfer phenomena ranging from second language acquisition and contact-induced change in word order to cross-linguistic influences in word formation and the lexicon. Transfer in Applied Linguistics scrutinizes, on the one hand, the external sources of language transfer by investigating bilingual resources and the school context, but also by pointing out the differences in academic language in multilingual adolescents. On the other hand, internal sources of language transfer in multilingual classrooms are illuminated. A final chapter directs its focus on methodological issues that arise when more than one language is studied systematically and it offers a solution on causal effects for the investigation of heritage language proficiencies. The chapter also includes studies that exploit more innovative methodologies on L1 identification and clitic acquisition.

Author : Alexander Clark,Shalom Lappin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781444390551

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Linguistic Nativism and the Poverty of the Stimulus by Alexander Clark,Shalom Lappin Pdf

This unique contribution to the ongoing discussion of language acquisition considers the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus in language learning in the context of the wider debate over cognitive, computational, and linguistic issues. Critically examines the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus - the theory that the linguistic input which children receive is insufficient to explain the rich and rapid development of their knowledge of their first language(s) through general learning mechanisms Focuses on formal learnability properties of the class of natural languages, considered from the perspective of several learning theoretic models The only current book length study of arguments for the poverty of the stimulus which focuses on the computational learning theoretic aspects of the problem

Author : Patrick Rebuschat,John N. Williams
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781934078242

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Statistical Learning and Language Acquisition by Patrick Rebuschat,John N. Williams Pdf

Open publication This volume brings together contributors from cognitive psychology, theoretical and applied linguistics, as well as computer science, in order to assess the progress made in statistical learning research and to determine future directions. An important objective is to critically examine the role of statistical learning in language acquisition. While most contributors agree that statistical learning plays a central role in language acquisition, they have differing views. This book will promote the development of the field by fostering discussion and collaborations across disciplinary boundaries.

Author : Jon Sprouse,Professor of Psychology Jon Sprouse
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198797722

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The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Syntax by Jon Sprouse,Professor of Psychology Jon Sprouse Pdf

This volume showcases the contributions that formal experimental methods can make to syntactic research in the 21st century. Syntactic theory is both a domain of study in its own right, and one component of an integrated theory of the cognitive neuroscience of language. It provides a theory of the mediation between sound and meaning, a theory of the representations constructed during sentence processing, and a theory of the end-state for language acquisition. Given the highly interactive nature of the theory of syntax, this volume defines "experimental syntax" in the broadest possible terms, exploring both formal experimental methods that have been part of the domain of syntax since its inception (i.e., acceptability judgment methods) and formal experimental methods that have arisen through the interaction of syntactic theory with the domains of acquisition, psycholinguistics, and neurolinguistics. The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Syntax brings these methods together into a single experimental syntax volume for the first time, providing high-level reviews of major experimental work, offering guidance for researchers looking to incorporate these diverse methods into their own work, and inspiring new research that will push the boundaries of the theory of syntax. It will appeal to students and scholars from the advanced undergraduate level upwards in a range of fields including syntax, acquisition, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, and computational linguistics.

Author : Nick Chater,Alexander Clark,John A. Goldsmith,Amy Perfors
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780191053580

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Empiricism and Language Learnability by Nick Chater,Alexander Clark,John A. Goldsmith,Amy Perfors Pdf

This interdisciplinary new work explores one of the central theoretical problems in linguistics: learnability. The authors, from different backgrounds—-linguistics, philosophy, computer science, psychology and cognitive science-explore the idea that language acquisition proceeds through general purpose learning mechanisms, an approach that is broadly empiricist both methodologically and psychologically. For many years, the empiricist approach has been taken to be unfeasible on practical and theoretical grounds. In the book, the authors present a variety of precisely specified mathematical and computational results that show that empiricist approaches can form a viable solution to the problem of language acquisition. It assumes limited technical background and explains the fundamental principles of probability, grammatical description and learning theory in an accessible and non-technical way. Different chapters address the problem of language acquisition using different assumptions: looking at the methodology of linguistic analysis using simplicity based criteria, using computational experiments on real corpora, using theoretical analysis using probabilistic learning theory, and looking at the computational problems involved in learning richly structured grammars. Written by four researchers in the full range of relevant fields: linguistics (John Goldsmith), psychology (Nick Chater), computer science (Alex Clark), and cognitive science (Amy Perfors), the book sheds light on the central problems of learnability and language, and traces their implications for key questions of theoretical linguistics and the study of language acquisition.

Author : Alexander Clark,Chris Fox,Shalom Lappin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781118448670

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The Handbook of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing by Alexander Clark,Chris Fox,Shalom Lappin Pdf

This comprehensive reference work provides an overview of the concepts, methodologies, and applications in computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP). Features contributions by the top researchers in the field, reflecting the work that is driving the discipline forward Includes an introduction to the major theoretical issues in these fields, as well as the central engineering applications that the work has produced Presents the major developments in an accessible way, explaining the close connection between scientific understanding of the computational properties of natural language and the creation of effective language technologies Serves as an invaluable state-of-the-art reference source for computational linguists and software engineers developing NLP applications in industrial research and development labs of software companies