| Presentation | 2021-03-14 VLS-BERT: Meaning Acquisition of Sentence-Final Particles from Vision, Language and Subjective Feelings Akane Matsushima, Natsuki Oka, Chie Fukada, Yuko Yoshimura, Koji Kawahara, |
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| Abstract(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Abstract(in English) | Understanding utterance meanings at the illocutionary force level (Austin 1962), such as question, request, greeting, is the first step in sharing intentions, and function words help us identify them. We aim to constructively grasp the acquisition mechanism of function words, especially sentence-final particles in Japanese, by constructing a model that integrates both automatic and conscious processings. In this study, we propose a model that associates vision, language, and subjective feelings by self-attention (VLS-BERT), which is a part of the developmental model of children’s automatic processing at thestage of acquiring sentence-final particles. Our simulation results showed that the model could associate linguistic information with visual information and/or subjective feelings. Furthermore, the result proved that the linguistic information of each of the utterances with the sentence-final particle yo was more strongly associated with the visual information and/or subjective feelings immediately after the time of the utterance, and that the linguistic information of each of the utterances with the sentence-final particle ne was more strongly associated with the visual information and/or subjective feelings at the time of the utterance. To give a specific example, Ringo da yo ‘I want to inform you that here is an apple’ was associated with the visual information at the next time of the utterance (i.e. the information obtained from looking at the apple, and Ringo da ne ‘I want to share the feeling that we are both looking at the apple’ was associated with the visual information at the time of the utterance. This result indicates that VLS-BERT implicitly acquired the meanings of the two different sentence-final particles. |
| Keyword(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Keyword(in English) | language acquisition / BERT / self-attention / sentence-final particles |
| Paper # | TL2020-20 |
| Date of Issue | 2021-03-07 (TL) |
| Conference Information | |
| Committee | TL |
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| Conference Date | 2021/3/14(1days) |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | Online |
| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Topics (in English) | Theme 1 : Language and Learning, Learning Language, Theme 2: Abduction of meaning, "Ba" in Co-Creation, Abduction and Innovation, Theme 3: Language Environments and Language Resources |
| Chair | Yasushi Tsubota(Kyoto Inst. of Tech.) |
| Vice Chair | Tadahisa Kondo(Kogakuin Univ.) / Kazuhiro Takeuchi(Osaka Electro-Comm. Univ.) |
| Secretary | Tadahisa Kondo(Kobe Gakuin Univ.) / Kazuhiro Takeuchi(Ferris Univ.) |
| Assistant | Nobuyuki Jincho(Miidas) / Akio Shimogori(Hakodate-ct) |
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| Registration To | Technical Committee on Thought and Language |
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| Language | JPN |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Sub Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Title (in English) | VLS-BERT: Meaning Acquisition of Sentence-Final Particles from Vision, Language and Subjective Feelings |
| Sub Title (in English) | |
| Keyword(1) | language acquisition |
| Keyword(2) | BERT |
| Keyword(3) | self-attention |
| Keyword(4) | sentence-final particles |
| 1st Author's Name | Akane Matsushima |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Kyoto Institute of Technology(KIT) |
| 2nd Author's Name | Natsuki Oka |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Kyoto Institute of Technology(KIT) |
| 3rd Author's Name | Chie Fukada |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Kyoto Institute of Technology(KIT) |
| 4th Author's Name | Yuko Yoshimura |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | Kanazawa University(Kanazawa Univ.) |
| 5th Author's Name | Koji Kawahara |
| 5th Author's Affiliation | Nagoya University of Foreign Studies(NUFS) |
| Date | 2021-03-14 |
| Paper # | TL2020-20 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.120 |
| Number (no) | TL-427 |
| Page | pp.pp.12-17(TL), |
| #Pages | 6 |
| Date of Issue | 2021-03-07 (TL) |