A Second Language Acquisition Model Using
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ii Acknowledgements Yosuke, thanks for verifying so many funny Japanese sentences and answering so many questions over and over again. Mush, Nadav and Oren you're here for reviewing this work and making my "to revise" list much longer and better. My family and especially my grandmother, for constantly reminding me that I must have my thesis complete and for buying my "I have to write" excuse to prepare tea and delicious lunches for me. My supervisor, Ari, thank you for so many things, but mainly for your undying enthusiasm being contagious and making me work harder and understand better after every meeting. iii ABSTRACT This work presents a computational model of acquiring a second language from example sentences. Our learning algorithms build a construction grammar language model, and generalize using form-based patterns and the learner's conceptual system. We use a unique professional language learning corpus, and show that substantial reliable learning can be achieved even though the corpus is very small. The model is applied to assisting the authoring of Japanese language learning corpora.
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