Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Acquisition

1. Computational Modeling as a Methodology for Studying Human Language Learning
Thierry Poibeau, Aline Villavicencio, Anna Korhonen, Afra Alishahi

2. Phon: A Computational Basis for Phonological Database Building and Model Testing
Yvan Rose, Gregory J. Hedlund, Rod Byrne, Todd Wareham, Brian MacWhinney

3. Language Dynamics in the Framework of Complex Networks: A Case Study on Self-Organization of the Consonant Inventories
Animesh Mukherjee, Monojit Choudhury, Niloy Ganguly, Anupam Basu

4. From Cues to Categories: A Computational Study of Children’s Early Word Categorization
Fatemeh Torabi Asr, Afsaneh Fazly, Zohreh Azimifar

5. In Learning Nouns and Adjectives Remembering Matters: A Cortical Model
Alessio Plebe, Vivian M. Cruz, Marco Mazzone

6. Treebank Parsing and Knowledge of Language
Sandiway Fong, Igor Malioutov, Beracah Yankama, Robert C. Berwick

7. Rethinking the Syntactic Burst in Young Children
Christophe Parisse

8. Learning to Interpret Novel Noun-Noun Compounds: Evidence from Category Learning Experiments
Barry J. Devereux, Fintan J. Costello

9. Child Acquisition of Multiword Verbs: A Computational Investigation
Aida Nematzadeh, Afsaneh Fazly, Suzanne Stevenson

10. Starting from Scratch in Semantic Role Labeling: Early Indirect Supervision
Michael Connor, Cynthia Fisher, Dan Roth

11. Gradual Acquisition of Verb Selectional Preferences in a Bayesian Model
Afra Alishahi, Suzanne Stevenson

Keywords: Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics), Language Translation and Linguistics, Psycholinguistics