Artificial Intelligence Lab Publications: Recent submissions

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    • Verb Classes and Alternations in Bangla, German, English, and Korean 

      Jones, Douglas A.; Berwick, Robert C.; Cho, Franklin; Khan, Zeeshan; Kohl, Karen T.; e.a. (1996-05-06)
      In this report, we investigate the relationship between the semantic and syntactic properties of verbs. Our work is based on the English Verb Classes and Alternations of (Levin, 1993). We explore how these classes are ...

    • The Logical Problem of Language Change 

      Niyogi, Partha; Berwick, Robert (1995-12-01)
      This paper considers the problem of language change. Linguists must explain not only how languages are learned but also how and why they have evolved along certain trajectories and not others. While the language ...

    • On Convergence Properties of the EM Algorithm for Gaussian Mixtures 

      Jordan, Michael; Xu, Lei (1995-04-21)
      "Expectation-Maximization'' (EM) algorithm and gradient-based approaches for maximum likelihood learning of finite Gaussian mixtures. We show that the EM step in parameter space is obtained from the gradient via a ...