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Louis Mahon

2 paper cards in the Research library · 2021–2024

Louis Mahon wrote 2 of the papers Mova reads, in 2021–2024; often with Mark Steedman, Omri Abend, Ida Szubert.

OpenAlex · ORCID · h-index 4 · 40 citations · 31 works — openalex-snapshot, 2026-10-14

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Papers

  1. A Language-agnostic Model of Child Language Acquisition (2024)
    The authors port Abend et al.'s semantic-bootstrapping learner from English to Hebrew. The learner sees one child-directed utterance at a time, paired with a logical form, and learns a CCG lexicon with EM over Dirichlet-process counts. The Hebrew data are from the CHILDES Hagar corpus (3,295 utterances), converted…
  2. Cross-linguistically Consistent Semantic and Syntactic Annotation of Child-directed Speech (2021)
    The paper proposes a two-step method for annotating child-directed speech (CDS) in CHILDES. First, the utterances get Universal Dependencies (UD) trees, starting from the existing dependency annotation and then hand-corrected. Second, sentential logical forms (LFs) are produced from the UD trees by unlexicalised…

Co-authors (9)