Automatic evaluation of syntactic learners in typologically-different languages

Cognitive Systems Research

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 198-213

  Chang, Franklin ^a   Lieven, Elena ^b   Tomasello, Michael ^b  

^a NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computational linguistics; Corpora; Linguistic typology; Syntax acquisition; Syntax evaluation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATA ACQUISITION; STATISTICS;

LINGUISTIC TYPOLOGY; SYNTAX ACQUISITION; SYNTAX EVALUATION;

SYNTACTICS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; LANGUAGE; LINEAR SYSTEM; LINGUISTICS; MACHINE LEARNING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SCORING SYSTEM; STUDENT T TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 43049173435     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13890417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogsys.2007.10.002     Document Type: Article

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