In defense of contextual vocabulary acquisition

Authors:
William J. Rapaport
Affiliations:
Departments of Computer Science and Engineering and Philosophy/ Center for Cognitive Science, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Venue:
CONTEXT'05 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Modeling and Using Context
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Researchers in “contextual vocabulary acquisition” differ over the kinds of context involved in vocabulary learning, and the methods and benefits thereof. This paper presents a computational theory of contextual vocabulary acquisition, identifies the relevant notion of context, exhibits the assumptions behind some classic objections, and defends our theory against these objections.