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Summary: A Probabilistic Model
of Early Argument Structure Acquisition
by
Afra Alishahi
A thesis submitted in conformity with the requirements
for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
Graduate Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto
Copyright c 2008 by Afra Alishahi
Abstract
A Probabilistic Model
of Early Argument Structure Acquisition
Afra Alishahi
Doctor of Philosophy
Graduate Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto
2008
Developing computational algorithms that capture the complex structure of natural lan-
guage is an open problem. In particular, learning the abstract properties of language
only from usage data remains a challenge. In this dissertation, we present a probabilis-
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