I have an intuition about language learning... There're 2 different approaches:
A. Learning like a human baby. Start with single words, and then proceed to simple sentences, and so on. Each successive "layer" building on the foundation of lower layers. B. Learning directly from "adult" text corpuses, ie going directly from age 0 to age 6. My intuition is that B requires exponentially more computation than A. In other words, the "layers-based" learning pathway reduces computational complexity *logarithmically*. But I don't know how to prove it. Does it make sense? Can someone corroborate? If this is correct, then we must start with simple sentences (Basic English) and not with mining the web or newspapers. YKY ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=fabd7936
