Shimon Edelman Quotes
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 program would identify the sequence 'saw a film today,' and determine whether it's a statistically significant pattern... If so, the sequence is added to the software's lexicon and can be used to create new sentences. 
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Because such equivalence sets can contain other patternsin turn containing further patterns, and so onthe resulting body of knowledge grows recursively, as a sort of forest of branching trees of possibilities.
- Shimon Edelman
ADIOS relies on a statistical method for pattern extraction and on structured generalizationtwo processes that have been implicated in language acquisition... Our experiments show that it can acquire intricate structures from raw data, including transcripts of parents' speech directed at two- or three-year-olds. This may eventually help researchers understand how children, who learn language in a similar item-by-item fashion and with very little supervision, eventually master the full complexities of their native tongue.
- Shimon Edelman