Incremental Grammar Induction from Child-directed Dialogue Utterances

Arash Eshghi; Julian Hough; Matthew Purver

Incremental Grammar Induction from Child-directed Dialogue Utterances

Arash Eshghi, Julian Hough, Matthew Purver

Queen Mary University of London

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Abstract

We describe a method for learning an incremental semantic grammar from data in which utterances are paired with logical forms representing their meaning. Working in an inherently incremental framework, Dynamic Syntax, we show how words can be associated with probabilistic procedures for the incremental projection of meaning, providing a grammar which can be used directly in incremental probabilistic parsing and generation. We test this on child-directed utterances from the CHILDES corpus, and show that it results in good coverage and semantic accuracy, without requiring annotation at the word level or any independent notion of syntax.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics
Pages	94-103
Number of pages	10
Publication status	Published - 2013
Event	51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Sofia, Bulgaria Duration: 4 Aug 2013 → 9 Aug 2013 http://www.acl2013.org/site/

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Conference	51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Abbreviated title	ACL 2013
Country/Territory	Bulgaria
City	Sofia
Period	4/08/13 → 9/08/13
Internet address	http://www.acl2013.org/site/

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Eshghi, A, Hough, J & Purver, M 2013, Incremental Grammar Induction from Child-directed Dialogue Utterances. in Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics. Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 94-103, 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Sofia, Bulgaria, 4/08/13. <https://aclanthology.info/papers/W13-2611/w13-2611>

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