Sparse Population Code Models of Word Learning in Concept Drift

Building Bridges Across Cognitive Sciences Around the World - Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1221-1226

  Zhang, Byoung Tak ^a,b   Ha, Jung Woo ^a   Kang, Myunggu ^a  

^a South Korea   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

concept drift; Cross situational word learning; meaning change; population coding; statistical language learning

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); LEARNING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; CONCEPT DRIFTS; CONVERGENCE BEHAVIORS; CROSS-SITUATIONAL WORD LEARNING; LANGUAGE LEARNING; MEANING CHANGE; POPULATION CODING; STATIC ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICAL LANGUAGE LEARNING; WORD LEARNING;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 84881567005     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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