Zipfian word frequencies support statistical word segmentation

Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2667-2672

  Kurumada, Chigusa ^a   Meylan, Stephan C ^a   Frank, Michael C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

statistical learning; Word segmentation; Zipfian frequency distributions

Indexed keywords

ADULT LEARNERS; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; LEARNING ABILITIES; NATURAL LANGUAGES; SEGMENTATION PERFORMANCE; STATISTICAL LEARNING; WORD FREQUENCIES; WORD SEGMENTATION; ZIPFIAN FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84870892455     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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