Representing intentions in a cognitive model of language acquisition: Effects of phrase structure on situated verb learning

AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report

Volumn SS-07-03, Issue , 2007, Pages 7-12

  Fleischman, Michael ^a   Roy, Deb ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; SYNTAX FREE MODELS;

DATA ACQUISITION; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 37349117674     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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