{"pk":28685,"title":"Efficiency of Learning in Experience-Limited Domains:Generalization Beyond the WUG Test","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Learning to read English requires learning the complex statis-tical dependencies between orthography and phonology. Pre-vious research has focused on how these statistics are learnedin neural network models provided with as much training asneeded. Children, however, are expected to acquire this knowl-edge in a few years of school with only limited instruction. Weexamined how these mappings can be learned efficiently, de-fined by tradeoffs between the number of words that are explic-itly trained and the number that are correct by generalization.A million models were trained, varying the sizes of randomly-selected training sets. For a target corpus of about 3000 words,training sets of 200–300 words were most efficient, producinggeneralization to as many as 1800 untrained words. Composi-tion of the 300 word training sets also greatly affected general-ization. The results suggest directions for designing curriculathat promote efficient learning of complex material.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"reading; efficient learning; generalization; compu-tational modeling; human and machine learning"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7bp911zm","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Christopher","middle_name":"R.","last_name":"Cox","name_suffix":"","institution":"Louisiana State University","department":""},{"first_name":"Matthew","middle_name":"Cooper","last_name":"Borkenhagen","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Wisconsin-Madison","department":""},{"first_name":"Mark","middle_name":"S.","last_name":"Seidenberg","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Wisconsin-Madison","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28685/galley/18556/download/"}]}