Quotes by Shimon Edelman

“When scanning new input, the program looks for recurring patterns or interchangeable sequences,”

“to revise some of their preconceptions regarding language acquisition by children, language competence in adults and second-language instruction.”

“ADIOS relies on a statistical method for pattern extraction and on structured generalization – two processes that have been implicated in language acquisition, ... Our experiments show that it can acquire intricate structures from raw data, including transcripts of parents speech directed at two- or three-year-olds. This may eventually help researchers understand how children, who learn language in a similar item-by-item fashion and with very little supervision, eventually master the full complexities of their native tongue.”

“The algorithm -- the computational method -- for language learning and processing that we have developed can take a body of text, abstract from it a collection of recurring patterns or rules and then generate new material,”

“Weve modeled a couple of experiments from developmental psycholinguistics,”

“The algorithm – the computational method – for language learning and processing that we have developed can take a body of text, abstract from it a collection of recurring patterns or rules and then generate new material,”

“Because such equivalence sets can contain other patterns – in turn containing further patterns, and so on – the resulting body of knowledge grows recursively, as a sort of forest of branching trees of possibilities,”

“For example, if the following three sentences appeared in a [text]—I saw a film today, oh boy, He saw a film today at the reception, She saw a film today and liked it,—the program would identify the sequence saw a film today, and determine whether its a statistically significant pattern, ... If so, the sequence is added to the softwares lexicon and can be used to create new sentences.”

“Because such equivalence sets can contain other patterns – in turn containing further patterns, and so on – the resulting body of knowledge grows recursively, as a sort of forest of branching trees of possibilities.”

“ADIOS relies on a statistical method for pattern extraction and on structured generalization – two processes that have been implicated in language acquisition. Our experiments show that it can acquire intricate structures from raw data, including transcripts of parents speech directed at two- or three-year-olds. This may eventually help researchers understand how children, who learn language in a similar item-by-item fashion and with very little supervision, eventually master the full complexities of their native tongue.”