Summary: Cross-situational Learning of Low Frequency Words: The Role of Context
Familiarity and Age of Exposure
Afsaneh Fazly, Fatemeh Ahmadi-Fakhr
Computer Sciences and Engineering
Shiraz University
Shiraz, Iran
{fazly,ahmadifakhr}@cse.shirazu.ac.ir
Afra Alishahi
Computational Linguistics and Phonetics
Saarland University
Saarbr¨ucken, Germany
afra@coli.uni-saarland.de
Suzanne Stevenson
Computer Science
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
suzanne@cs.toronto.edu
Abstract
Higher frequency has been shown to have a positive effect on
the acquisition of words and other linguistic items in children.

Source: Alishahi, Afra - Department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics, Universität des Saarlandes

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences