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In Defense of Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition

How to Do Things with Words in Context

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Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT 2005)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNAI,volume 3554))

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Researchers in “contextual vocabulary acquisition” differ over the kinds of context involved in vocabulary learning, and the methods and benefits thereof. This paper presents a computational theory of contextual vocabulary acquisition, identifies the relevant notion of context, exhibits the assumptions behind some classic objections, and defends our theory against these objections.

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  1. Departments of Computer Science and Engineering and Philosophy; Center for Cognitive Science, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260-2000, USA

    William J. Rapaport

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  1. Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave, 15213-3891, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Anind Dey

  2. Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science, New Bulgarian University, 21 Montevideo Street, 1618, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Boicho Kokinov

  3. Computer Science Department, Indiana University, 47405, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.

    David Leake

  4. Department of Computer Science, University of Maine, 04469, Orono, Maine, USA

    Roy Turner

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Rapaport, W.J. (2005). In Defense of Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition. In: Dey, A., Kokinov, B., Leake, D., Turner, R. (eds) Modeling and Using Context. CONTEXT 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3554. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11508373_30

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