1: Introduction
2: Computational Approaches to Induction
3: Towards a New Empiricism for Linguistics
4: Distributional Learning of Syntax
5: A Simplicity Principle
6: Learnability in Practice
7: The Empiricist Turn
Bibliography
Nick Chater is Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business
School, after previously holding chairs in psychology at Warwick
and UCL. He has over 200 publications, has won four national awards
for psychological research, and has served as Associate Editor for
the journals Cognitive Science, Psychological Review, and
Psychological Science. He was elected a Fellow of the Cognitive
Science Society in 2010 and a Fellow of the British Academy in
2012. He works
on the cognitive and social foundations of language and
rationality. Alexander Clark is a Lecturer in Logic and Linguistics
in the Department of Philosophy at King's College London; before
that he
taught for several years in the Computer Science department of
Royal Holloway, University of London. His first degree was in
Mathematics from the University of Cambridge, and his Ph.D. is from
the University of Sussex in Artificial Intelligence. He then
postdoctoral research at the University of Geneva, in the Institute
for the Study of Semantics and Cognition. His research is on
unsupervised learning in computational linguistics, grammatical
inference, and theoretical and mathematical
linguistics. Amy Perfors is a senior lecturer in computational
cognitive science in the Department of Psychology at the University
of Adelaide in Australia. She has a B.S. in Symbolic Systems and an
M.A. in
Linguistics from Stanford University, and a PhD in Brain &
Cognitive Sciences from MIT. Her research focuses on a variety of
topics in psychology and linguistics. It centres on what biases and
assumptions people (both adults and children) bring to different
learning problems, and how those assumptions shape the inferences
they make and the things they learn. John Goldsmith is Edward
Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor of Linguistics and
Computer Science at the University of
Chicago, where he has been since 1984. He received his PhD in
linguistics in 1976 from MIT for work developing the model of
autosegmental phonology, which he has applied to problems of
general phonological
theory and to Bantu tone systems in particular. Since the late
1990s he has been working on the computational problem of
unsupervised learning of natural language morphology. He is also
co-author, with Bernard Laks, of the forthcoming Language and the
Mind: Encounters in the Mind Fields, a historical study of the
connections between linguistics, philosophy, and psychology.
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