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The acquisition of a lexicon from paired phoneme sequences and semantic representations

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We present an algorithm that acquires words (pairings of phonological forms and semantic representations) from larger utterances of unsegmented phoneme sequences and semantic representations. The algorithm maintains from utterance to utterance only a single coherent dictionary, and learns in the presence of homonymy, synonymy, and noise. Test results over a corpus of utterances generated from the Childes database of mother-child interactions are presented.

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  1. MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 545 Technology Square, 02139, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Carl de Marcken

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Rafael C. Carrasco Jose Oncina

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de Marcken, C. (1994). The acquisition of a lexicon from paired phoneme sequences and semantic representations. In: Carrasco, R.C., Oncina, J. (eds) Grammatical Inference and Applications. ICGI 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 862. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58473-0_138

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