Title
Language acquisition in the MDL framework.
Abstract
The Minimum Description Length (MDL) principle provides guidanceto the fundamental question of determining what a given set of observeddata tells us about the underlying data generating machinery. Hence, in thebroadest sense the MDL principle relates to the central question of all science,although its most useful applications have been to the more practical problemof fitting statistical models to data. In this article, we review the MDL principleand demonstrate how it may be...
Year
Venue
Keywords
1992
Language Computations
language acquisition,minimum description length,statistical model
Field
DocType
Citations 
Computer science,Minimum description length,Language acquisition,Statistical model,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence
Conference
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.45
4
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jorma Rissanen11665798.14
Eric Sven Ristad235368.84