Lexical category acquisition is facilitated by uncertainty in distributional co-occurrences
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0209449
Abstract: This paper analyzes distributional properties that facilitate the categorization of words into lexical categories. First, word-context co-occurrence counts were collected using corpora of transcribed English child-directed speech. Then, an unsupervised k-nearest neighbor algorithm was used… read more here.
Keywords: acquisition facilitated; category; uncertainty; lexical category ... See more keywords