KACL Lecture Series
#18 : Peter W. Culicover 氏
Professor, Ohio State University
Title:
Adventures with CAMiLLe, a Computational Minimalist Language Learner
Date : September 9, 2002, 16:00--18:00
Place :
Room 1411, ground floor of Bldg 14, Kobe Shoin Women's University.
I report on the results of ongoing language learning experiments with
CAMiLLe. CAMiLLe is a computational implementation of a conservative,
attentive, minimalist language learner. CAMiLLe has only a very
minimal prior knowledge of grammar, forms correspondence rules
between sound and meaning, takes account of every bit of linguistic
data, and generalizes very conservatively. After a brief description
of the architecture of CAMiLLe, I describe how well CAMiLLe performs
on a number of grammatical acquisition tasks, such as word order and
syntactic correspondences with thematic roles. The tentative
conclusion at this point is that CAMiLLe is capable of acquiring a
system that is equivalent to the grammar of a human language,
although it lacks much of the formal machinery of contemporary
grammatical theories.
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