Naive Physics, Event Perception, Lexical Semantics, and Language Acquisition

Title: en_US Naive Physics, Event Perception, Lexical Semantics, and Language Acquisition
Creator: en_US Siskind, Jeffrey M.
Date: 2004-10-20T19:54:56Z
Date Available: 2004-10-20T19:54:56Z
Date Issued: en_US 1993-04-01
Identifier: en_US AITR-1456
uri: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6784
Abstract: en_US This thesis proposes a computational model of how children may come to learn the meanings of words in their native language. The proposed model is divided into two separate components. One component produces semantic descriptions of visually observed events while the other correlates those descriptions with co-occurring descriptions of those events in natural language. The first part of this thesis describes three implementations of the correlation process whereby representations of the meanings of whole utterances can be decomposed into fragments assigned as representations of the meanings of individual words. The second part of this thesis describes an implemented computer program that recognizes the occurrence of simple spatial motion events in simulated video input.
Extent: en_US 285 p.; 697015 bytes; 3782562 bytes
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Language: en_US
Relation: en_US AITR-1456