Incremental Grammar Induction from Child-directed Dialogue Utterances

Arash Eshghi, Julian Hough, Matthew Purver

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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 languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the Fourth Annual Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics
Pages94-103
Number of pages10
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Event51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Sofia, Bulgaria
Duration: 4 Aug 20139 Aug 2013
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Conference

Conference51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Abbreviated titleACL 2013
Country/TerritoryBulgaria
CitySofia
Period4/08/139/08/13
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