Ambiguity Resolution in Language Learning: Computational and Cognitive Models

By Hinrich Schütze

Book Overview

This volume is concerned with how ambiguity and ambiguity resolution are learned, that is, with the acquisition of the different representations of ambiguous linguistic forms and the knowledge necessary for selecting among them in context. Sch tze concentrates on how the acquisition of ambiguity is possible in principle and demonstrates that particular types of algorithms and learning architectures (such as unsupervised clustering and neural networks) can succeed at the task. Three types of lexical ambiguity are treated: ambiguity in syntactic categorisation, semantic categorisation, and verbal subcategorisation. The volume presents three different models of ambiguity acquisition: Tag Space, Word Space, and Subcat Learner, and addresses the importance of ambiguity in linguistic representation and its relevance for linguistic innateness.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575860740
• ISBN13: 9781575860749
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat
• Length: 230 Pages