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
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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.
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