Frans Adriaans
Publications
Dissertation:
Adriaans, F. (2011). The Induction of Phonotactics for Speech Segmentation: Converging evidence from computational and human learners. LOT Dissertation Series 267. Doctoral dissertation, Utrecht University. [.pdf]
Papers:
Adriaans, F., & Kager, R. (submitted). Learning without a lexicon: Adults induce novel phonotactics from exposure to continuous speech.
Adriaans, F., & Swingley, D. (2012). Distributional Learning of Vowel Categories is Supported by Prosody in Infant-Directed Speech. In N. Miyake, D. Peebles, & R. P. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 72-77). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [.pdf]
Adriaans, F., Kamps, J., & Koolen, M. (2012). The Importance of Document Ranking and User-Generated Content for Faceted Search and Book Suggestion. In S. Geva et al. (Ed.), Focused Retrieval of Content and Structure: 10th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX 2011) (pp. 30-44). LNCS 7424, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag. [.pdf]
Adriaans, F., Kamps, J., & Koolen, M. (2011). University of Amsterdam at INEX 2011: Book and Data Centric Tracks. In S. Geva et al. (Ed.), INEX 2011 Workshop Pre-proceedings (pp. 36-48). Amsterdam: IR Publications. [.pdf]
Adriaans, F., & Kager, R. (2010). Adding generalization to statistical learning: The induction of phonotactics from continuous speech. Journal of Memory and Language, 62, 311–331. [pre-print]
Koolen, M., Adriaans, F., Kamps, J., & de Rijke, M. (2006). A Cross-Language Approach to Historic Document Retrieval. In M. Lalmas et al. (Ed.), Proceedings of the 28th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2006) (pp. 407-419). LNCS 3936, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag. [.pdf]
Conference abstracts (peer-reviewed):
Adriaans, F., & Swingley, D. (2013). Prosodic exaggeration in infant-directed speech: Consequences for vowel learnability, Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Central European University, Budapest. (poster)
Adriaans, F., & Swingley, D. (2012). Prosodic Determinants of Vowel Expansion in Infant-Directed Speech, International Child Phonology Conference 2012, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
Adriaans, F. (2011). The Discovery of Word Boundaries in Variable Input Representations, Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 36), Boston University. [poster]
Adriaans, F., Boll-Avetisyan, N., & Kager, R. (2010). A Lexicon-Free Approach to the Induction of OCP-Place, Computational Modelling of Sound Pattern Acquisition, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. [poster]
Adriaans, F., Boll-Avetisyan, N., & Kager, R. (2009). Abstract Phonotactic Constraints for Speech Segmentation: Evidence from Human and Computational Learners, 31st Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS). Workshop AG 4: Learning Meets Acquisition: The learnability of linguistic frameworks from formal and cognitive perspectives, University of Osnabrück, Germany.
Adriaans, F. (2008). Learning Phonotactic Generalizations from Continuous Speech: A Computational Study, Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 33), Boston University. [poster]
Adriaans, F. (2008). Learning Phonotactic Constraints from Continuous Speech: A Computational Study, Consonant Clusters and Structural Complexity, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.
Adriaans, F. (2008). Learning Phonotactic Generalizations from Continuous Speech: A Computational Study, Laboratory Phonology 11, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. [poster]
Kager, R., & Adriaans, F. (2008). The Acquisition of Artificial Languages: Models and Human Data, contributed symposium at the 16th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology,
Utrecht University, Netherlands.
Adriaans, F. (2008). Using Statistical Distributions To Learn Abstract Phonotactic Constraints, Old World Conference in Phonology 5 (OCP5) , University of Toulouse-le Mirail, France.
Adriaans, F. (2007). Modeling Phonotactic Cues for Speech Segmentation, Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Adriaans, F. (2007). Learning Phonotactic Constraints from Continuous Speech, Machine Learning and Cognitive Science of Language Acquisition, University College London.
Adriaans, F. (2007). Learning Phonotactic Constraints from Continuous Speech, Experimental Approaches to Optimality Theory, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Kamps, J., Koolen, M., Adriaans, F., & de Rijke, M. (2007). A Cross-Language Approach to Historic Document Retrieval (extended abstract). Digital Historical Corpora: Architecture, Annotation, and Retrieval in Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, number 06491. Internationales Begegnungs- und Forschungszentrum für Informatik (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany.
Koolen, M., Adriaans, F., Kamps, J., & de Rijke, M. (2006). A Cross-Language Approach to Historic Document Retrieval (extended abstract). In P.Y. Schobbens et al. (Ed.), Proceedings of the 18th Belgium-Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 405-406, University of Namur.
Other:
‘Baby leert computer praten’, 4-page article/interview (by Marieke Kolkman) about my dissertation. Appeared in Dutch popular science magazine NWT Magazine, September 2011.
(http://www.nwtonline.nl/nl/artikel/27877/baby-leert-computer-praten.html)
Adriaans, F. (2005). Historic Document Retrieval: Exploring Strategies for 17th Century Dutch, M.Sc. thesis, University of Amsterdam. [.pdf]