{"id":15915,"date":"2023-10-30T05:17:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T09:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=15915"},"modified":"2023-10-30T11:34:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T15:34:44","slug":"rawski-at-university-of-buffalo-colloquium-10-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2023\/10\/30\/rawski-at-university-of-buffalo-colloquium-10-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Rawski at University of Buffalo colloquium (10\/18)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"elementToProof ContentPasted1\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" data-smartmail=\"gmail_signature\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"ContentPasted0\">Jon Rawski (Visiting Professor, MIT; Assistant Professor, SJSU Linguistics) gave a colloquium talk at University of Buffalo Center for Cognitive Science on Oct. 18!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof ContentPasted1\"><span class=\"ContentPasted2\" dir=\"auto\"><b class=\"ContentPasted2\">Title<\/b>: Rethinking Poverty of the Stimulus<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof ContentPasted1\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"ContentPasted2\" dir=\"auto\"><b class=\"ContentPasted2\">Abstract:<\/b> This talk reimagines the \u0093poverty of the stimulus\u0094 in language acquisition and linguistic theory. I will explain deficiencies and confusions in PovStim and in \u0093grammar induction\u0094 more generally. I will argue for a move from acquisition as induction to abduction, focused around a core inference problem of \u0093richness of the hypothesis space\u0094. I will give a mathematical characterization of hypothesis generation, shifting the focus from grammars to classes of grammars, organized around particular intrinsic properties. The search for grammars becomes a constraint-satisfaction problem (not in the OT sense) guided by tractability, learnability, and other covering criteria, in line with current results and perspectives in psychology, linguistics, and computer science. I will discuss these and some recent work inferring grammars from data.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Rawski (Visiting Professor, MIT; Assistant Professor, SJSU Linguistics) gave a colloquium talk at University of Buffalo Center for Cognitive Science on Oct. 18! \u00a0 Title: Rethinking Poverty of the Stimulus \u00a0 Abstract: This talk reimagines the \u0093poverty of the stimulus\u0094 in language acquisition and linguistic theory. I will explain deficiencies and confusions in PovStim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15934,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15915\/revisions\/15934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}