Integrated Learning of Words and Their Underlying Concepts
Raymond J. Mooney · Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) · 1987
Continue on reverse if necessary and identify by block number)Models of learning word meanings have generally assumed prior knowledge of the concepts to which the words refer.However, novel natural language text or discourse can often present both unknown concepts and words which refer to these concepts.Also, developmental data suggests that the learning of words and their concepts frequently occurs concurrently instead of concept learning proceeding word learning.This paper presents an integrated computational model for acquiring both word meanings and their underlying concepts concurrently.This model is implemented as a word learning component added to the GENESIS explanation-based schema acquisition system for narrative understanding.A detailed example is described in which GENESIS learns provisional definitions for the words "kidnap", "kidnapper", and "ransom" as well as a kidnapping schema from a single narrative. 20.