Exploiting social information in grounded language learning via grammatical reductions

50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2012 - Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 883-891

  Johnson, Mark ^a   Demuth, Katherine ^a   Frank, Michael ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAMMATICAL INFERENCES; LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; LANGUAGE LEARNING; SOCIAL CUES; SOCIAL INFORMATION; UNIGRAM MODELS; WORD LEARNING;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SOCIAL ASPECTS;

EID: 84878213416     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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