THE MECHANICAL ACQUISITION OF PRECEDENCE GRAMMARS,

Abstract

A language acquisition device is an abstract model of grammar inference, under well formulated conditions. It is a black box which receives primary linguistic data, and produces a grammar. The study presents a model and computer program which have practical value for some potential applications, and also some implications for child language learning. The primary linguistic data available to the acquisition device includes samples of sentences, sample of nonsentences and the set of possible structural descriptions of the sentences in the language. The model is then able to infer a grammar in the class of operator precedence grammars. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1970
Accession Number
AD0710349

Entities

People

  • Stefano Crespi-reghizzi

Organizations

  • University of California, Los Angeles

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Acquisition
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Grammars
  • Language
  • Learning
  • Linguistics

Fields of Study

  • Linguistics

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Machine Translation
  • AI & ML - Neural Networks