Louis Mahon
Louis Mahon wrote 2 of the papers Mova reads, in 2021–2024; often with Mark Steedman, Omri Abend, Ida Szubert.
Papers
- A Language-agnostic Model of Child Language Acquisition (2024)
The authors port Abend et al.'s semantic-bootstrapping learner from English to Hebrew. The learner sees one child-directed utterance at a time, paired with a logical form, and learns a CCG lexicon with EM over Dirichlet-process counts. The Hebrew data are from the CHILDES Hagar corpus (3,295 utterances), converted… - Cross-linguistically Consistent Semantic and Syntactic Annotation of Child-directed Speech (2021)
The paper proposes a two-step method for annotating child-directed speech (CDS) in CHILDES. First, the utterances get Universal Dependencies (UD) trees, starting from the existing dependency annotation and then hand-corrected. Second, sentential logical forms (LFs) are produced from the UD trees by unlexicalised…
Co-authors (9)
- Mark Steedman ×2
- Omri Abend ×2
- Ida Szubert
- Katherine Demuth
- Mark Johnson
- Nathan Schneider
- Samuel Gibbon
- Sharon Goldwater
- Uri Berger
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