We investigate if a model can learn natural language with minimal linguistic input through interaction. Addressing this question, we design and implement an interactive language learning game that learns logical semantic representations compositional
ly. Our game allows us to explore the benefits of logical inference for natural language learning. Evaluation shows that the model can accurately narrow down potential logical representations for words over the course of the game, suggesting that our model is able to learn lexical mappings from scratch successfully.
We investigate grounded language learning through real-world data, by modelling a teacher-learner dynamics through the natural interactions occurring between users and search engines; in particular, we explore the emergence of semantic generalization
from unsupervised dense representations outside of synthetic environments. A grounding domain, a denotation function and a composition function are learned from user data only. We show how the resulting semantics for noun phrases exhibits compositional properties while being fully learnable without any explicit labelling. We benchmark our grounded semantics on compositionality and zero-shot inference tasks, and we show that it provides better results and better generalizations than SOTA non-grounded models, such as word2vec and BERT.
This research seeks to extend our current knowledge in the area of
distanct English language learning by exploring the language learning
strategies used by students at the Syrian Virtual University (SVU).
Open and distance learning is experiencing a rapid growth
throughout the world and Syria is no exception. With the turn of the new
millennium, Syria launched two state institutes for distance learning: The
Open Learning Centre (opened in 2001) and
the Syrian Virtual University
(opened in 2002). The Syrian Virtual University (SVU), one of its kind in
the whole Arab region, offers students the opportunity to gain education
through an online learning environment based on the latest technology.
Since Syria is a country where English has become an important
educational requirement, the teaching of English as a foreign language
has therefore entered the arena of distance learning.