Director of CoLaLab | Publications | Presentations
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Language Acquisition |
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Models of Acquirability |
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Linguistic Cues to Information about the World |
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Foundations |
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Theoretical Linguistics |
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Machine Translation |
Publications
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Pearl, L. & Steyvers, M. (submitted). Identifying Social Information in Text Using Human-Based Computation. |
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Pearl, L. (ms.) Acquiring parametric linguistic systems from natural language data: What selective learning biases can do. |
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Pearl, L. (submitted) When unbiased probabilistic learning is not enough: Acquiring a parametric system of metrical phonology. |
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Pearl, L. (forthcoming) Learning English Metrical Phonology: When Probability Distributions Are Not Enough, Proceedings of GALANA 3, Cascadilla Press. |
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Pearl, L. (forthcoming) Using computational modeling in language acquisition research, Experimental Methods in Language Acquistion Research. |
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Pearl, L. & Lidz, J. (2009) When domain general learning fails and when it succeeds: Identifying the contribution of domain specificity, Language Learning and Development, 5(4), 235-265. |
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Caponigro, I. & Pearl, L. (2009) The nominal nature of Where, When, and How: Evidence from Free Relatives, Linguistic Inquiry, 40.1, 155-164. |
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Caponigro, I. & Pearl, L. (2008) Silent Prepositions: Evidence from Free Relatives, In Anna Asbury, Jakub Dotlačil, Berit Gehrke, and Rick Nouwen (eds), The Syntax and Semantics of Spatial P, Amsterdam: Benjamins. |
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Pearl, L. (2008) Putting the Emphasis on Unambiguous: The Feasibility of Data Filtering for Learning English Metrical Phonology, BUCLD 32: Proceedings of the 32nd annual Boston University Conference on Child Language Development, Chan, H., Jacob, H., and Kapia, E (eds.), Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, 390-401. |
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Lidz, J. & Pearl, L. (2007) Language Learning through Selection., review of Charles Yang's The Infinite Gift: How Children Learn and Unlearn the Languages of the World, Science, 315, 332. |
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Pearl, L. & Weinberg, A. (2007) Input Filtering in Syntactic Acquisition: Answers from Language Change Modeling, Language Learning and Development, 3(1), 43-72. |
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Pearl, L. (2005) The Input to Syntactic Acquisition: Solutions from Language Change Modeling, Proceedings of Second Workshop on Psychocomputational Models of Human Language Acquisition, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1-9. |
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Pearl, L. (2005) Addressing Acquisition from Language Change: A Modeling Perspective, University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, 11.1. |
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Dorr, B., Pearl, L., Hwa, R., & Habash, N. (2003) "DUSTer: A Method for Unraveling Cross-Language Divergences for Statistical Word-Level Alignment", Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 31-43. |
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Dorr, B., Pearl, L., Hwa, R., & Habash, N. (2002) "Improved Word Level Alignment: Injecting Knowledge about MT Divergences", Technical Report ACL-2002-P0364, Language and Media Processing Laboratory, University of Maryland, College Park. |
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Green, R., Dorr, B., & Pearl, L. (2001) Mapping WordNet Senses to a Lexical Database of Verbs, Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Toulouse, France. |
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Green, R., Pearl, L., Dorr, B., & Resnik, P. (2001) Lexical Resource Integration Across the Syntax-Semantics Interface, Technical Report LAMP-TR-069/CS-TR-4231/UMIACS-TR-2001-19/CS-TR-4231, University of Maryland, College Park. |
Doctoral Dissertation, University of Maryland:
Necessary Bias in Natural Language Learning
Presentations
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2009
(with Sharon Goldwater and Mark Steyvers) "How Ideal Are We? Incorporating Human Limitations into Bayesian Models of Word Segmentation", Boston University Conference on Language Development 34. abstract || presentation |
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2009
(with Sharon Goldwater and Mark Steyvers) "Online Learning Mechanisms for Bayesian Models of Word Segmentation", Psychocomputational Models of Human Language Acquisition workshop, Cognitive Science Annual Conference, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands. abstract || presentation |
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2009
"Parametric Linguistic Systems: The Limits of Probabilistic Learning for Realistic Data", Learning
Meets Acquisition workshop at 31st Annual Meeting of Linguistics Association of
Germany, University of Osnabrueck, Germany. abstract || presentation |
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2009
"Learning-Driven Linguistic Evolution", Social Dynamics Seminar, University of California, Irvine. presentation |
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2008
"Learning English Metrical Phonology: Beyond Simple Probability", Generative Approaches to
Language Acquisition - North America 3, University of Connecticut, Storrs. abstract || presentation |
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2008
"Constrained Probabilistic Learning for Complex Linguistic Systems", Department of
Linguistics Colloquium, University of California, San Diego. abstract || presentation |
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2008
"Learning-Driven Linguistic Evolution", Workshop on The Evolution of Psychological
Categories, Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Irvine. abstract || presentation || video of presentation (.ram) |
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2008
"Cognitive Modeling: How Humans Learn Complex Linguistic Systems",
Center for Machine
Learning and Intelligent Systems AI/ML Seminar Series, University of
California, Irvine.
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2008
"Learning Complex Linguistic Systems: Parameters, Probability, and the Power of Selective Learning", Psychobabble Talk Series, University of California, Los Angeles.
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2007
"An Unambiguous Strategy for Learning Complex Linguistic Systems",
Department of Linguistics Colloquium, University of
Southern California.
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2007
"Putting the Emphasis on Unambiguous: The Feasibility of Data Filtering for Learning
English Metrical Phonology", Boston University Conference on Language Development 32.
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2007
"Jack only learns from this data point, but Lily learns from that one, too", Center
for Language Sciences, University of Rochester.
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2007
"Necessary Bias in Natural Language Learning", Thesis Defense, University
of Maryland.
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2007
"Language in Populations: The Interaction
Between Learning & Change", Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, Northwestern University.
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2007
"At the Interface of Computational
Learning Theory and Human Language Learning", Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine.
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2006
"When domain general learning fails and when it succeeds: Identifying the
contribution of domain specificity", Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Lunch Talks,
University of Maryland.
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2006
Bayesian Updating in Human Language Learning, Decisive Analytics Corporation, Arlington, VA.
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2006
Computational Answers to Human Language Learning Questions,
National Security Agency, Fort Meade, MD.
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2006
(with Ivano Caponigro) "Silent (spatial) prepositions: Evidence from free relatives",
Syntax and Semantics of Spatial P, Utrecht, Netherlands.
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2005
"Generalization, similarity, and Bayesian inference", Language Learning Seminar,
University of Maryland.
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2005
The Input for Syntactic Acquisition: Solutions from Language Change
Modeling, Psychocomputational Models of Human Language Acquisition
workshop, Association for Computational Linguistics, University of Michigan.
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2004
"How Learning Works - A View From English Participle Morphology", Cognitive
Neuroscience of Language Lunch Talks, University of Maryland.
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2004
"Acquisition Theory in Language Change Modeling: Old English OV-Loss", Thirteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL)
conference, University of Vienna.
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2004
"Old English OV-Loss and Acquisition Theory: A View from Modeling", Eighth Diachronic Generative Syntax (DIGS) conference, Yale University.
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2004
"What Language Change Modeling Can Do for Acquisition Theory", Twenty-Eighth Pennsylvania Linguistics (PLC) Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania.
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2003
"Modeling Object-Verb Loss in Old English: A Tale of Trigger-Based
Acquisition", Seminar on Language Change, Georgetown University.
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2003
"Modeling Object-Verb Loss in Old English: A Tale of Trigger-Based
Acquisition", Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Lunch Talks, University of Maryland.
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2003
"Modeling Object-Verb Loss in Old English: A Tale of Trigger-Based
Acquisition", Graduate Research Interaction Day, University of Maryland.
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