When scanning new input, the program looks for recurring patterns or interchangeable sequences,

ADIOS relies on a statistical method for pattern extraction and on structured generalization two processes that have been implicated in language acquisition, … Our experiments show that it can acquire intricate structures from raw data,...

The algorithm — the computational method — for language learning and processing that we have developed can take a body of text, abstract from it a collection of recurring patterns or rules and then generate...

The algorithm the computational method for language learning and processing that we have developed can take a body of text, abstract from it a collection of recurring patterns or rules and then generate new material,

We’ve modeled a couple of experiments from developmental psycholinguistics,

For example, if the following three sentences appeared in a [text] ‘I saw a film today, oh boy,’ ‘He saw a film today at the reception,’ ‘She saw a film today and liked it,’ the...

to revise some of their preconceptions regarding language acquisition by children, language competence in adults and second-language instruction.

Because such equivalence sets can contain other patterns in turn containing further patterns, and so on the resulting body of knowledge grows recursively, as a sort of forest of branching trees of possibilities,