Grammar is the computational system of language. It is a set of rules that specifies how to construct sentences out of words. Grammar is the basis of the unlimited expressibility of human language. Children acquire the grammar of their native language without formal education simply by hearing a number of sample sentences. Children could not solve this learning task if they did not have some pr...

This paper introduces research within the ALADIN project, which aims to develop an assistive vocal interface for people with a physical impairment. In contrast to existing approaches, the vocal interface is self-learning, which means it can be used with any language, dialect, vocabulary and grammar. This paper describes the overall learning framework, and the two components that will provide vo...

It is well known that the symmetry bias much accelerates the vocabulary learning. In particular, the bias helps infants to connect objects with their names easily. However, grammar learning is another important aspect of language acquisition. In this study, we propose that the symmetry bias also would help to acquire grammar rules faster. We employ Iterated Learning Model, and revise it to incl...

This paper introduces research within the ALADIN project, which aims to develop an assistive vocal interface for people with a physical impairment. In contrast to existing approaches, the vocal interface is self-learning which means it can be used with any language, dialect, vocabulary and grammar. The paper describes the overall learning framework, and the two components that will provide voca...

1 Introduction A central problem of language learnability is the learning of restrictive grammars, grammars that generate all the observed forms but as few others as possible. Given only positive evidence, there are many grammars consistent with the observed data, and the learner must select the most restrictive grammar among these. If the learner mistakenly adopts a broader grammar, no positiv...

Fluid Construction Grammars (FCGs) are a flavour of Construction Grammars, which themselves are unification-based grammars. Its syntax is (only) up to certain extent similar to other unification-based grammars. However, it lacks a declarative semantics, while its procedural semantics is truly particular, compared to other unification-based grammar formalisms. Here we propose the re-definition o...

Undergeneration is a problem that undermines successful parsing of unrestricted texts. A popular solution to this problem is automatic grammar correction (or machine learning of grammar). Broadly speaking, grammar correction approaches can be classiied as being either data-driven, or model-based. Data-driven learners use data-intensive methods to acquire grammar. They typically use grammar form...