Learning Simple Statistics for Language Comprehension and Production: The CAPPUCCINO Model

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1619-1624

  McCauley, Stewart M ^a   Christiansen, Morten H ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Chunking; Computational Modeling; Corpora; Language Learning; Shallow Parsing; Usage Based Approach

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; MODELING LANGUAGES;

CHUNKING; COGNITIVE SCIENCE; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; CORPUS; LANGUAGE COMPREHENSIONS; LANGUAGE LEARNING; LANGUAGE PRODUCTION; SHALLOW PARSING; SIMPLE++; USAGE-BASED APPROACH;

STATISTICS;

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