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Machine Learning Summer School 2005 - Chicago

Adventures with Camille

author: Peter Culicover, Ohio State University

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A computational simulation of a minimalist language learner

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0:02 Adventures with Camille, a Computational Simulation of a Minimalist Language Learner
0:39 Questions
2:00 Outline
2:58 Perspectives
3:35 The standard view
4:11 An alternative view
5:00 The challenge...
5:35 The challenge, cont’d
6:24 A Constructionist Manifesto
7:28 Constructionalism
10:11 Simple Syntax
10:35 The Correspondence Spectrum
10:39 Words
10:54 Idioms
11:57 VP constructional idioms
13:21 Syntax-semantics mismatches
13:34 Motto: Construction of language produces constructions in language
14:33 How does the learner know what she/he is dealing with?
15:18 CAMiLLe
16:30 Goals of CAMiLLe
17:49 The spatial metaphor Regions = categories/features (slice of a many dimensional space)
18:36 N -> A N
19:01 N -> A N - Recursion
19:32 Strategy
20:38 Success - faliure
20:44 A Concrete Minimalist Learner

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