Modeling the learning of the Person Case Constraint

no code implementations • SCiL 2020 • Adam Liter, Naomi Feldman

Rational Distortions of Learners' Linguistic Input

no code implementations • CONLL 2017 • Naomi Feldman

Language acquisition can be modeled as a statistical inference problem: children use sentences and sounds in their input to infer linguistic structure.

Language Acquisition

Learning an Input Filter for Argument Structure Acquisition

no code implementations • WS 2017 • Laurel Perkins, Naomi Feldman, Jeffrey Lidz

How do children learn a verb{'}s argument structure when their input contains nonbasic clauses that obscure verb transitivity?

Joint Word Segmentation and Phonetic Category Induction

no code implementations • ACL 2016 • Micha Elsner, Stephanie Antetomaso, Naomi Feldman

Language Acquisition Speech Recognition

Why discourse affects speakers' choice of referring expressions

no code implementations • IJCNLP 2015 • Naho Orita, Eliana Vornov, Naomi Feldman, Hal Daum{\'e} III

Quantifying the role of discourse topicality in speakers' choices of referring expressions

no code implementations • WS 2014 • Naho Orita, Naomi Feldman, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Eliana Vornov

Topic Models

A Joint Learning Model of Word Segmentation, Lexical Acquisition, and Phonetic Variability

no code implementations • EMNLP 2013 • Micha Elsner, Sharon Goldwater, Naomi Feldman, Frank Wood