Additional publications
Workshop presentations
- N. Chang. Putting
meaning into grammar learning. Proceedings, Psycho-computational
Models of Human Language Acquisition (COLING 2004 workshop). Geneva.
Superseded by CogSci 2004 paper.
- N. Chang and J. Feldman. Embodied Construction Grammar in language
acquisition and use. 2003 Georgetown University Round Table on
Languages and Linguistics. Cognitive and Discourse Perspectives on
Language and Language Learning. Washington, DC, February 2003.
- N. Chang, S. Narayanan and M. R.L. Petruck. From frames to inference. Presented at
Scanalu 2002. Superseded by Coling 2002 paper.
- N.C. Chang and B.K. Bergen. Usage-based generalization and
constructional re-organization: Evidence from early syntactic
development. Presented at the 2001 International Cognitive
Linguistics Conference in Santa Barbara, as part of the theme session
on the Cognitive Organization and Re-Organization of Grammatical
Constructions.
- N. Chang and T. Maia. Grounded
learning of grammatical constructions. Presented at the
2001 AAAI Spring Symposium on Learning Grounded
Representations. Stanford, CA. March 2001. Superseded by CogSci
2001 paper.
- T. Maia and N. Chang. Grounding
the acquisition of grammar in sensorimotor
representations. Presented at the 2001 AAAI Spring Symposium
on Learning Grounded Representations. Stanford, CA.
- N. Chang and R. Hunter. Reference resolution in child-directed
speech: a deep semantic approach. Presented at the International
workshop on Reference and Coherence in discourse;
Formal, Functional and Cognitive approaches in Utrecht, The
Netherlands, January 2001.
Short papers / abstracts
- N. Chang. Learning form-meaning mappings for language
understanding. 1999 Cognitive and Neural Systems conference, Boston,
MA 1999.
- Learning form-meaning mappings for
language: a 1-page abstract of a presentation at the 1999
SIGART/AAAI Doctoral Consortium in Orlando, Florida. A similar
presentation was made at the 1999 Cognitive and Neural Systems
conference in Boston.
Course papers
- Acquisition and Ergativity: An
Overview, a survey of connections between the study of language
acquistion and ergativity.
- Learning Early Communicative Acts (postscript). A project investigating the
suitability of a simple Bayesian model-merging approach to some
function (or relational) words in the one-word stage of child
language, written for a course in machine learning.
- Semantic Role Marking: A Preliminary Report (pdf). A general review of the
cross-linguistic nature of role marking (in adult language), written
for a seminar on cognitive semantics.
- Learning Natural Language: A review
of formal and computational approaches (compressed postscript). A
summary of work from theoretical computer science in the learning of
natural language.