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Usage-based learning of grammatical categories
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Human languages use a wide range of grammatical categories
to constrain which words or phrases can fill certain slots in grammatical
patterns and to express additional meanings, such as tense or aspect,
through morpho-syntactic means. These grammatical categories, which
are most often language-specific and changing over time, are difficult to
define and learn. This paper raises the question how these categories can
be acquired and where they have come from. We explore a usage-based
approach. This means that categories and grammatical constructions are
selected and aligned by their success in language interactions. We report
on a multi-agent experiment in which agents are endowed with mechanisms for understanding and producing utterances as well as mechanisms
for expanding their inventories using a meta-level learning process based
on pro- and anti-unification. We show that a categorial type network
which has scores based on the success in a language interaction leads to
the spontaneous formation of grammatical categories in tandem with the
formation of grammatical patterns.
to constrain which words or phrases can fill certain slots in grammatical
patterns and to express additional meanings, such as tense or aspect,
through morpho-syntactic means. These grammatical categories, which
are most often language-specific and changing over time, are difficult to
define and learn. This paper raises the question how these categories can
be acquired and where they have come from. We explore a usage-based
approach. This means that categories and grammatical constructions are
selected and aligned by their success in language interactions. We report
on a multi-agent experiment in which agents are endowed with mechanisms for understanding and producing utterances as well as mechanisms
for expanding their inventories using a meta-level learning process based
on pro- and anti-unification. We show that a categorial type network
which has scores based on the success in a language interaction leads to
the spontaneous formation of grammatical categories in tandem with the
formation of grammatical patterns.
Boek: BNAIC 2018 Preproceedings
Series: Belgian/Netherlands Artificial Intelligence Conference
Pagina's: 253-264
Aantal pagina's: 12
Toegankelijkheid:Open