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Cabiddu, Francesco, Bott, Lewis, Jones, Gary and Gambi, Chiara (2022) ChiSense-12 : an English sense-annotated child-directed speech corpus. In: 13th ELRA Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2022), Marseille, France, 20-25 Jun 2022. Published in: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference pp. 5198-5205.
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Abstract
Language acquisition research has benefitted from the use of annotated corpora of child-directed speech to examine key questions about how children learn and process language in real-world contexts. However, a lack of sense-annotated corpora has limited investigations of child word sense disambiguation in naturalistic contexts. In this work, we sense-tagged 53 corpora of American and English speech directed to 958 target children up to 59 months of age, comprising a large-scale sample of 15,581 utterances for 12 ambiguous words. Importantly, we carefully selected target senses that we know - from previous investigations - young children understand. As such work was part of a project focused on investigating the role of verbs in child word sense disambiguation, we additionally coded for verb instances which took a target ambiguous word as verb object. We present experimental work where we leveraged our sense-tagged corpus ChiSense-12 to examine the role of verb-event structure in child word sense disambiguation, and we outline our plan to use Transformer-based computational architectures to test hypotheses on the role of different learning mechanisms underlying children word sense disambiguation performance.
Item Type: | Conference Item (Paper) | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference | ||||||
Publisher: | European Language Resources Association | ||||||
Official Date: | 2022 | ||||||
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Page Range: | pp. 5198-5205 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 17 April 2023 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 17 April 2023 | ||||||
Conference Paper Type: | Paper | ||||||
Title of Event: | 13th ELRA Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2022) | ||||||
Type of Event: | Conference | ||||||
Location of Event: | Marseille, France | ||||||
Date(s) of Event: | 20-25 Jun 2022 | ||||||
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