Sensitivity to Input Order: Evaluation of an Incremental and Memory-Limited Bayesian Cross-Situational Word Learning Model

Sepideh Sadeghi, Matthias Scheutz


Abstract
We present a variation of the incremental and memory-limited algorithm in (Sadeghi et al., 2017) for Bayesian cross-situational word learning and evaluate the model in terms of its functional performance and its sensitivity to input order. We show that the functional performance of our sub-optimal model on corpus data is close to that of its optimal counterpart (Frank et al., 2009), while only the sub-optimal model is capable of predicting the input order effects reported in experimental studies.
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C18-1268
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Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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August
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2018
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Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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3170–3180
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Sepideh Sadeghi and Matthias Scheutz. 2018. Sensitivity to Input Order: Evaluation of an Incremental and Memory-Limited Bayesian Cross-Situational Word Learning Model. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 3170–3180, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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