Lexical Acquisition Task

Context:
- It can range from being a Heuristic Lexical Acquisition Task to being a Data-Driven Lexical Acquisition Task (such as supervised lexical acquisition).
- It can be solved by a Lexical Acquisition System (that implements a Lexical Acquisition Algorithm).
Example(s):
- A Child learning a Vocabulary.
See: Relation Mention Detection.

References

(Hearst, 1992) ⇒ Marti Hearst. (1992). “Automatic Acquisition of Hyponyms from Large Text Corpora.” In: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-1992). doi:10.3115/992133.992154.

Beverly A. Goldfield, and J. Steven Reznick. (1990). “Early Lexical Acquisition: Rate, content, and the vocabulary spurt.” In: Journal of Child Language. Vol 17(1). doi:10.1017/S0305000900013167
- ABSTRACT: Examined the transition from slow to rapid word learning in 18 children followed from the age of 1 yr 2 mo to 1 yr 10 mo. A chronological record of nouns and other word classes was coded from diary records of Ss' utterances recorded by mothers. 13 Ss evidenced a prolonged period of up to 3 mo during which rate of acquisition markedly increased. Almost three-quarters of the words learned during this period were nouns. Five Ss evidenced more gradual word learning and acquired a balance of nouns and other word classes. The terms "vocabulary spurt" and "naming explosion" seem to best describe children who focus early linguistic efforts on learning names for things. Other children may attempt to encode a range of experience with a more varied which results in more gradual lexical growth.

P. Jacobs, and U. Zernik. (1988). “Acquiring Lexical Knowledge from Text: A Case Study.” In: Proceedings of the Seventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence.