language-acquisition

Learn languages by reading! A language learning app stemmed from Learning with Texts (LWT).

Language Acquisition Research Tools

Code & data for the EMNLP 2024 paper: Is Child-Directed Speech Effective Training Data for Language Models?

Lessons for learning a foreign language. Formerly a wiki, now a static site built with Hugo.

Code for the paper "Deep neural networks and humans both benefit from compositional structure"

A list of papers that you should probably read before you try to create artificial agents that can learn a language or a concept.

Depth-bounded grammar Induction Model with Inside-sampling

A curated repository of resources for Linguistics, the scientific study of language

Offline GUI-tool to convert common subtitle files (such as created by Whisper AI) to interview transcripts for qualitative data analysis. Supported import file formats are SRT, VTT, TXT, JSON and TSV. Exported interview transcripts based on GAT2/TiQ/Dresing & Pehl/Kuckartz transcript format convention.

"Flashcardify-GPT is a Python script that uses the OpenAI GPT-3.5 language model to generate language flashcards for learners. With Flashcardify-GPT, users can generate customized decks of flashcards with common phrases and vocabulary.

This project was originally my term project for a computational linguistics course at Pitt. It was turned into a research project later and I am working on publishing the work.

Guidelines, documentation, instructions, issues, etc.

Code for the paper "Sampling strategies in Siamese Networks for unsupervised speech representation learning" Interspeech 2018

Mora (formerly YouLingo) is an app that makes authentic language learning happen through user-generated short-form videos. This project was originally created for the UofTHacks 12 Hackathon and was the winner of Best University of Toronto Hack. It is currently in development with the team at Roi Digital.

Embodied agent that learns from human teaching; hybrid agent architecture with computer vision, AI planning, knowledge graph reasoning & generalization , inverse kinematics. Supported by the DARPA GAILA program.

An Android app that splits audio into fragments for active listening-based language learning.

Desktop vocabulary trainer — build vocabulary that actually stays with you. Save words, get instant translations, learn through audio repetition, read real-world content with synchronized translations, and track your progress from first encounter to mastery.

Research code for exploring co-occurrence structure of nouns in child-directed speech

Code and material for the paper "Beyond the Self: Using Grounded Affordances to Interpret and Describe Others' Actions" (doi: 10.1109/TCDS.2018.2882140)