{"id":77,"date":"2008-03-17T05:00:59","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/2008\/03\/17\/cog-lunch-steve-piantadosi\/"},"modified":"2008-03-16T23:40:58","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T04:40:58","slug":"cog-lunch-steve-piantadosi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2008\/03\/17\/cog-lunch-steve-piantadosi\/","title":{"rendered":"Cog Lunch: Steve Piantadosi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/piantado\/www\/\">Steve Piantadosi<\/a><BR><br clear='none'\/>\nAffiliation: TedLab<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nTime: 3\/18\/08 at 12PM<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nRoom: 46-3310<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nLunch: Beauty&#8217;s Pizza<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: A Bayesian model of compositional semantics acquisition<BR><\/p>\n<p>> We present an unsupervised, cross-situational Bayesian learning model for the acquisition of compositional semantics. We show that the model acquires the correct grammar for a toy version of English using a psychologically-plausible amount of data, over a wide range of possible learning environments. By assuming that speakers typically produce sentences which are true in the world, the model learns  the semantic representation of content and function words, using only positive evidence in the form of sentences and world contexts. We argue that the model can adequately solve both the problem of referential uncertainty and the subset problem in this domain, and show that the model makes mistakes analogous to those made by children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Steve Piantadosi Affiliation: TedLab Time: 3\/18\/08 at 12PM Room: 46-3310 Lunch: Beauty&#8217;s Pizza Title: A Bayesian model of compositional semantics acquisition > We present an unsupervised, cross-situational Bayesian learning model for the acquisition of compositional semantics. We show that the model acquires the correct grammar for a toy version of English using a psychologically-plausible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}