Synergies in learning words and their referents

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 23: 24th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2010, NIPS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Johnson, Mark ^a   Demuth, Katherine ^a   Frank, Michael ^b   Jones, Bevan K ^c  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NONPARAMETRICS; EMBEDDINGS; LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; LEARN+; LINGUISTIC INFORMATION; NON-PARAMETRIC MODEL; PHONEME STRINGS; SYNERGISTIC INTERACTION; TOPIC MODELING; WORD SEGMENTATION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 85161968252     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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