{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Formal Theories of Language Acquisition: Practical and Theoretical Perspectives","authors":[{"name":"Daniel N. Osherson","slug":"daniel-n-osherson","given":"Daniel N.","family":"Osherson","affiliation":""},{"name":"Michael Stob","slug":"michael-stob","given":"Michael","family":"Stob","affiliation":""},{"name":"Scott Weinstein","slug":"scott-weinstein","given":"Scott","family":"Weinstein","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"Learning Theory is the study of systems that impl eme nt functions from e vidential sta t es to theories. The theoretical framework de veloped in the th e ory makes po ss ibl e t he comparison of c la sses of algorithms whi c h embody distinct l ea l'n ing s trat eg i es along a variety of dimensions. S uch comparisons yield v aluab le information to tho se concerned with in f e r e nce problems in Cogniti ve Sc it!nce a nd Artifi c ial Intelligence. Th e present pa p er employs the fr amework of Learning Theory to s tudy the design spec ifica t ions of inductive systems which are of interest in the domain of l a ng ua g e acquisition .","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/135","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/0135.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/135.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/bibtex/135","volume":{"slug":"1983","title":"Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1983","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/","year":1983,"location":"Karlsruhe, West Germany","dates":"","editors":"Alan Bundy","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Natural Language","track":"Natural Language","number":135,"pages":{"first":566,"last":571},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}