Henning Christiansen


2018

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A Gold Standard to Measure Relative Linguistic Complexity with a Grounded Language Learning Model
Leonor Becerra-Bonache | Henning Christiansen | M. Dolores Jiménez-López
Proceedings of the Workshop on Linguistic Complexity and Natural Language Processing

This paper focuses on linguistic complexity from a relative perspective. It presents a grounded language learning system that can be used to study linguistic complexity from a developmental point of view and introduces a tool for generating a gold standard in order to evaluate the performance of the learning system. In general, researchers agree that it is more feasible to approach complexity from an objective or theory-oriented viewpoint than from a subjective or user-related point of view. Studies that have adopted a relative complexity approach have showed some preferences for L2 learners. In this paper, we try to show that computational models of the process of language acquisition may be an important tool to consider children and the process of first language acquisition as suitable candidates for evaluating the complexity of languages.

2006

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Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Constraints and Language Processing
Philippe Blache | Henning Christiansen | Veronica Dahl | Jean-Philippe Prost
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Constraints and Language Processing