Evolving learnable languages

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 66-72

  Tonkes, Bradley ^a   Blair, Alan ^b   Wiles, Janet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS;

EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGES; LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; LANGUAGE ACQUISITION DEVICES; LANGUAGE ENVIRONMENT;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

EID: 54049134681     PISSN: 10495258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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