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    "pk": 31760,
    "title": "Distribuational Information and the Acquisition of Linguistic Categories: A Statistical Approach",
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    "abstract": "Distributional information, in the form of simple, lo-\ncally computed statistics of an input corpus, provi-\ndes a potential m e a n s of establishing initial syntac-\ntic categories (noun, verb, etc.). Finch and Chater\n(1991, 1992) clustered words hierarchically, accor-\nding to the distribution of locad contexts in which\nthey appeared in large, written English corpora,\nobtaining clusters that corresponded well with the\nstandard syntactic categories. Here, a stronger de-\nmonstration of their method is provided, using 'real'\ndata, that to which children are exposed during ca-\ntegory acquisition, taken from the childes corpus.\nFor 2-5 million words of aulult speech, clustering on\nsyntsu:tic and semantic bases was observed, with a\nhigh degree of cleai differentiation between syntac-\ntic categories. For child data, s o m e noun and verb\nclusters emerged, with s o m e evidence of other ca-\ntegories, but the data set was too small for reliable\ntrends to emerge. S o m e initial results investigating\nthe possibility of classifying novel words using only\nthe immediate context of a single instance are also\npresented. These results demonstrate that statisti-\ncal information m a y play an important role in the\nprocesses of early language 2u:quisition.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "section": "Submitted Presentations",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/40k6382q",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Martin",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Redington",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Edinburgh",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Nick",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Chater",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Edinburgh",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Steve",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Finch",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Edinburgh",
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        }
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "1993-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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