Papers with cognitive science and psycholinguistics
Modelling Language Acquisition through Syntactico-Semantic Pattern Finding (2023.findings-eacl)
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| Challenge: | Usage-based theories of language acquisition have documented the processes by which children acquire language through communicative interaction. |
| Approach: | They propose a method for learning grammars based on similarities and differences in linguistic observations alone. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method is able to learn compositional lexical and item-based constructions of variable extent and degree of abstraction, along with a network of emergent syntactic categories. |
Reasoning Requirements for Indirect Speech Act Interpretation (2020.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing systems that pretrain word and sentence embeddings to account for nearby linguistic context are unclear how to integrate extra-linguistic context into NLU. |
| Approach: | They perform a corpus analysis to develop a representation of the knowledge and reasoning used to interpret indirect speech acts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model is based on the domain-general patterns of reasoning involved and implements Answer Set programming. |