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dr. A. (Afra) Alishahi

Assistant Professor 

Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences
Department Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence

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My primary research interest involves the development of computational models of human language acquisition. Computational modeling is an effective tool for studying human cognition: whereas linguistic and psychological theories often give a high level explanation for the experimental data, computational models provide a detailed account of the underlying mechanisms for the cognitive task at hand. Moreover, the behaviour of a model can be directly compared to that of humans through computational simulation.

 

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Principal publications

  • Afra Alishahi (2010). Computational Modeling of Human Language Acquisition. Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies, Morgan & Claypool.
  • Afra Alishahi and Suzanne Stevenson (2010). Learning general properties of semantic roles from usage data: a computational model. Language and Cognitive Processes, 25:1, 50-93.
  • Afsaneh Fazly, Afra Alishahi and Suzanne Stevenson (2010). A probabilistic computational model of cross-situational word learning. Cognitive Science, 34:6, 1017-1063.
  • Afra Alishahi and Suzanne Stevenson (2008). A computational model for early argument structure acquisition. Cognitive Science, 32:5, 789-834.
  • Afra Alishahi, Afsaneh Fazly, Judith Koehne and Matthew Crocker (in press). Sentence-based attentional mechanisms in word learning: Evidence from a computational model, To appear in the special issue of Frontiers in Developmental Psychology.

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Last amended: 20 April 2012
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