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    "pk": 28754,
    "title": "Curious Topics: A Curiosity-Based Model of First Language Word Learning",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "This paper investigates whether a curiosity-based strategy\ncould be beneficial to word learning. Children are active\nconversation partners and exert considerable influence over the\ntopics that are discussed in conversation with their parents. As\nthe choice of topics is likely to be intrinsically motivated, a\nformalization of curiosity is implemented in a word learning\nmodel. The model receives annotated Flickr30k Entities\nimages as input, and is trained in two conditions. In the curious\ncondition, the model chooses objects to talk about from the\nscene according to the curiosity mechanism, whereas in the\nrandom condition, the model receives randomly chosen objects\nas input. The goal of this study is to show how a curious, active\nchoice of topics by a language learner improves word learning\ncompared to random selection. Curiosity is found to make word\nlearning faster, increase robustness, and lead to better accuracy.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
        "name": "",
        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "word learning; curiosity; interaction; connectionist\nmodel."
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers with Poster Presentations",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5m22z6p3",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Daan",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Keijser",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Tilburg University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Lieke",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Gelderloos",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Tilburg University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Afra",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Alishahi",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Tilburg University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2019-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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