Learning words and their meanings from unsegmented child-directed speech

NAACL HLT 2010 - Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Main Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 501-509

  Jones, Bevan K ^a   Johnson, Mark ^a   Frank, Michael C ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN SEGMENTATION; CONTINUOUS SPEECH; LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; WORD LEARNING; WORD MEANING; WORD SEGMENTATION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84863393768     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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