The magic number 4: Evolutionary pressures on semantic frame structure

D Wu - Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 10th …, 2014 - World Scientific
We propose that the “magic number 4” puzzle of argument structure in semantic frames
across most human languages is explained by selection pressures given inherent …

[PDF][PDF] Learning Translations for Tagged Words: Extending the Translation Lexicon of an ITG for Low Resource Languages

M Saers, D Wu - Proceedings of the Workshop on Multilingual and …, 2016 - aclanthology.org
We tackle the challenge of learning part-ofspeech classified translations as part of an
inversion transduction grammar, by learning translations for English words with known part …

[PDF][PDF] Ternary Segmentation for Improving Search in Top-down Induction of Segmental ITGs

M Saers, D Wu - Proceedings of SSST-8, Eighth Workshop on …, 2014 - aclanthology.org
We show that there are situations where iteratively segmenting sentence pairs topdown will
fail to reach valid segments and propose a method for alleviating the problem. Due to the …

Learning Music and Language with Stochastic Transduction Grammars

D Wu - 2014 - repository.ust.hk
We discuss how our computational models for learning probabilistic structural relationships
between pairs of compositional languages reflect fundamental cognitive capacities that …