pratt@zztop.rutgers.edu (Lorien Y. Pratt) (12/03/88)
This is the last talk of the semester. Thanks for helping to make this a successful colloquium series! --Lori Fall, 1988 Neural Networks Colloquium Series at Rutgers Abduction Machines for Grammar Discovery ---------------------------------------- Stefan Shrier Grumman-Ctec, McLean, VA Room 705 Hill center, Busch Campus Friday December 9, 1988 at 11:10 am Refreshments served before the talk Abstract Abduction machines (AMs) discover regularity structure in patterns. For language patterns (e.g., English sentences) several such machines demonstrate how they learn some aspects of language. The machines embody algorithms that train to learn word classes and grammars. These machines exhibit linguistic competence in the sense that they can produce and process "new" sentences to which they had not been exposed during training. A computer model, which simulates a learner, acquires an interesting subset of English grammar from another computer model which simulates a teacher who knows the language. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Lorien Y. Pratt Computer Science Department pratt@paul.rutgers.edu Rutgers University Busch Campus (201) 932-4634 Piscataway, NJ 08854