An Architecture for Bootstrapping Lexical Semantics and Grammatical Structures

  • Authors:
  • Tom Armstrong;Tim Oates

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • WI-IAT '11 Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 03
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Computational approaches to language acquisition typically reduce the problem to one of either learning syntax, or learning a lexicon--isolated tasks. These problem simplifications have led to disconnected solutions and algorithms with no expectation of grounded inputs. We propose a language learning framework for bootstrapping the acquisition of a grammar and learning lexical semantics. We describe the framework and provide an instantiation using context-free grammars and a lambda-calculus semantic representation.