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Towards a Semantic-based Theory of Language Learning (1999)
| Venue: | In 12th Amsterdam Colloquium |
| Citations: | 8 - 2 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Tellier99towardsa,
author = {Isabelle Tellier},
title = {Towards a Semantic-based Theory of Language Learning},
booktitle = {In 12th Amsterdam Colloquium},
year = {1999},
pages = {217--222}
}
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Abstract
The notion of Structural Example has recently emerged in the domain of grammatical inference. It allows to solve the old difficult problem of learning a grammar from positive examples but seems to be a very had hoc structure for this purpose. In this article, we first propose a formal version of the Principle of Compositionality based on Structural Examples. We then give a sufficient condition under which the Structural Examples used in grammatical inference can be inferred from sentences and their semantic representations, which are supposed to be naturally available in the environment of children learning their mother tongue. Structural Examples thus appear as an interesting intermediate representation between syntax and semantics. This leads us to a new formal model of language learning where semantic information play a crucial role. 1. Introduction The problem of grammatical inference from positive examples consists in the design of algorithms able to identify a formal grammar fr...
Keyphrases
structural example semantic-based theory language learning grammatical inference positive example new formal model sufficient condition mother tongue crucial role hoc structure interesting intermediate representation formal version semantic information semantic representation old difficult problem formal grammar fr
