On the resolution of ambiguities in the extraction of syntactic categories through chunking

Cognitive Systems Research

Volumn 6, Issue 1 SPEC.ISS., 2005, Pages 17-25

  Freudenthal, Daniel ^a   Pine, Julian M ^a   Gobet, Fernand ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chunking; Co occurrence statistics; Cognitive modelling; Distributional learning; Language acquisition; MOSAIC; Syntactic categories

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; STATISTICS;

CHUNKING MECHANISMS; GRAMMATICAL FUNCTIONS; NATURAL LANGUAGES; SYNTAX ACQUISITION;

SYNTACTICS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 8844221156     PISSN: 13890417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogsys.2004.09.003     Document Type: Article

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