Miniature Language Acquisition: A Touchstone for Cognitive Science

TitleMiniature Language Acquisition: A Touchstone for Cognitive Science
Publication TypeTechnical Report
Year of Publication1990
AuthorsFeldman, J., Lakoff G., Stolcke A., & Weber S. Hollbach
Other Numbers573
Abstract

Cognitive Science, whose genesis was interdisciplinary, shows signs of reverting to a disjoint collection of fields. This paper presents a compact, theory-free task that inherently requires an integrated solution. The basic problem is learning a subset of an arbitrary natural language from picture-sentence pairs. We describe a very specific instance of this task and show how it presents fundamental (but not impossible) challenges to several areas of cognitive science including vision, language, inference and learning.

URLhttp://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/ftp/global/pub/techreports/1990/tr-90-009.pdf
Bibliographic Notes

ICSI Technical Report TR-90-009

Abbreviated Authors

J. A. Feldman, G. Lakoff, A. Stolcke, and S. H. Weber

ICSI Research Group

AI

ICSI Publication Type

Technical Report