Language Learning: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Papers from the 2004 AAAI Spring Symposium
Paul Cohen, Andy Clark, Eduard Hovy, Tim Oates, and Michael Witbrock, Program Cochairs
Technical Report SS-04-05 published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California. This technical report is also available in book and CD format.
Contents
Organizing Committee / v
Paul Cohen, Andy Clark, Eduard Hovy, Tim Oates, and Michael Witbrock
Schedule / v
Paul Cohen, Andy Clark, Eduard Hovy, Tim Oates, and Michael Witbrock
Comparing Different Optimality — Theoretic Learning Algorithms: The Case of Metrical Phonology / 1
Diana Apoussidou and Paul Boersma
Meaning to Learn: Bootstrapping Semantics to Infer Syntax / 8
Tom Armstrong and Tim Oates
The Significance of Errors to Parametric Models of Language Acquisition / 15
Paula Buttery and Ted Briscoe
Grammatical Inference and the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus / 21
Alexander Clark
A Cross Disciplinary Look at Statistics and Grounding in Human Lexical Learning / 28
Harlan D. Harris and James S. Magnuson
Corpus-Based Induction of Syntactic Structure: Models of Constituency and Dependency / 32
Dan Klein and Christopher D. Manning
Learning Semantic Parsers: An Important but Under-Studied Problem / 39
Raymond J. Mooney
When Push Comes to Shove: A Study of the Relation between Interaction Dynamics and Verb Use / 45
Clayton T. Morrison, Erin N. Cannon, and Paul R. Cohen
Inducing Contraint-Based Grammars from a Small Semantic Treebank / 49
Smaranda Muresan, Tudor Muresan, and Judith L. Klavans
On Grounding the Content of Language / 57
Deb Roy
Unsupervised Context Sensitive Language Acquisition from Large, Untagged Corpora / 61
Zach Solan, Eytan Ruppin, David Horn, and Shimon Edelman
Semi-Supervised Semantic Role Labeling / 65
Cynthia A. Thompson
Does English Need its Pronouns? Simulating the Effect of Pro-drop on SVO Languages / 69
Ezra Van Everbroeck, Maria Polinsky, and Garrison W. Cottrell
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