Reinforcement and inference in cross-situational word learning

Cross-situational word learning is based on the notion that a learner can determine the referent of a word by finding something in common across many observed uses of that word. Here we propose an adaptive learning algorithm that contains a parameter that controls the strength of the reinforcement...

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Main Authors: Paulo F.C. Tilles, José F Fontanari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00163/full