{"pk":32846,"title":"Learning Words: Computers and Kids","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We present a computer-based model of acquisition of word meaning from context. The model uses semantic role assignments to search through a hierarchy of conceptual information for an appropriate meaning for an unknown word. The implementation of this approach has led to many surprising similarities with work in modeling human language acquisition. W e describe the learning task and the model, then present an empirical test and discuss the relationships between this approach and the work in psycholinguistics.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Paper Presentations -- Word and Concept Learning","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0rd052n7","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Peter","middle_name":"M.","last_name":"Hastings","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Michigan","department":""},{"first_name":"Stephen","middle_name":"L.","last_name":"Lytinen","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Michigan","department":""},{"first_name":"Robert","middle_name":"K.","last_name":"Lindsay","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Michigan","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1991-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/32846/galley/23906/download/"}]}