Summary of A Language-agnostic Model Of Child Language Acquisition, by Louis Mahon and Omri Abend and Uri Berger and Katherine Demuth and Mark Johnson and Mark Steedman
A Language-agnostic Model of Child Language Acquisition
by Louis Mahon, Omri Abend, Uri Berger, Katherine Demuth, Mark Johnson, Mark Steedman
First submitted to arxiv on: 22 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The recent semantic bootstrapping child-language acquisition model was initially designed for English, but this study reimplements it to learn Hebrew. The model learns from pairs of utterances and logical forms as meaning representations, acquiring both syntax and word meanings simultaneously. The results show that the model transfers mostly to Hebrew, but the richer morphology in Hebrew makes learning slower and less robust. This highlights the need to enable the model to leverage similarities between different word forms. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This study takes a language learning model designed for English and adapts it to learn Hebrew. The model learns by comparing pairs of utterances with logical meanings and picks up both sentence structure and word meanings at once. When tested on Hebrew, the model does okay, but takes longer and has some trouble due to Hebrew’s complex grammar. To make the model better, we need to teach it how to use similarities between words. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Bootstrapping * Syntax
