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Unsupervised Language Acquisition
Carl de Marcken
This thesis presents a computational theory of unsupervised language acquisition, precisely defining procedures for learning language from ordinary spoken or written utterances, wi…
Linguistic Structure as Composition and Perturbation
Carl de Marcken
This paper discusses the problem of learning language from unprocessed text and speech signals, concentrating on the problem of learning a lexicon. In particular, it argues for a r…
Acquiring a Lexicon from Unsegmented Speech
Carl de Marcken
We present work-in-progress on the machine acquisition of a lexicon from sentences that are each an unsegmented phone sequence paired with a primitive representation of meaning. A…
The Acquisition of a Lexicon from Paired Phoneme Sequences and Semantic Representations
Carl de Marcken
We present an algorithm that acquires words (pairings of phonological forms and semantic representations) from larger utterances of unsegmented phoneme sequences and semantic repre…