2 papers
cs.CL2024
Learning Phonotactics from Linguistic Informants
Canaan Breiss, Alexis Ross, Amani Maina-Kilaas +2
We propose an interactive approach to language learning that utilizes linguistic acceptability judgments from an informant (a competent language user) to learn a grammar. Given a g…
cs.CL2024
Toward In-Context Teaching: Adapting Examples to Students' Misconceptions
Alexis Ross, Jacob Andreas
When a teacher provides examples for a student to study, these examples must be informative, enabling a student to progress from their current state toward a target concept or skil…