4 papers
The Greedy and Recursive Search for Morphological Productivity
Caleb Belth, Sarah Payne, Deniz Beser +2
As children acquire the knowledge of their language's morphology, they invariably discover the productive processes that can generalize to new words. Morphological learning is made…
Falling Through the Gaps: Neural Architectures as Models of Morphological Rule Learning
Deniz Beser
Recent advances in neural architectures have revived the problem of morphological rule learning. We evaluate the Transformer as a model of morphological rule learning and compare i…
A Grounded Approach to Modeling Generic Knowledge Acquisition
Deniz Beser, Joe Cecil, Marjorie Freedman +4
We introduce and implement a cognitively plausible model for learning from generic language, statements that express generalizations about members of a category and are an importan…
ADAM: A Sandbox for Implementing Language Learning
Ryan Gabbard, Deniz Beser, Jacob Lichtefeld +5
We present ADAM, a software system for designing and running child language learning experiments in Python. The system uses a virtual world to simulate a grounded language acquisit…