• Afra Alishahi (2010). Computational Modeling of Human Language Acquisition. Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies, Morgan & Claypool.

• Afsaneh Fazly, Afra Alishahi and Suzanne Stevenson (2010). A probabilistic computational model of cross-situational word learning. Cognitive Science, 34:6, 1017-1063. [pdf]


• Afra Alishahi and Suzanne Stevenson (2010). Learning general properties of semantic roles from usage data: a computational model. Language and Cognitive Processes, 25:1, 50-93. [pdf]


• Afra Alishahi and Suzanne Stevenson (2008). A computational model for early argument structure acquisition. Cognitive Science, 32:5, 789-834. [pdf]

• Afra Alishahi (2008). A probabilistic model of early argument structure acquisition. PhD thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto. [pdf]

• Afra Alishahi and Pirita Pyykkönen (2011). The onset of syntactic bootstrapping in word learning: Evidence from a computational study. Proceedings of the 33nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston. [pdf]


• Afra Alishahi and Afsaneh Fazly (2010). Integrating Syntactic Knowledge into a Model of Cross-situational Word Learning. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Portland, Oregon. [pdf]


• Grzegorz Chrupała and Afra Alishahi (2010). Online Entropy-based Model of Lexical Category Acquisition. Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), Uppsala, Sweden. [pdf]


• Afsaneh Fazly, Fatemeh Ahmadi-Fakhr, Afra Alishahi and Suzanne Stevenson (2010). Cross-situational Learning of Low Frequency Words: The Role of Context Familiarity and Age of Exposure. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Portland, Oregon. [pdf]


• Afra Alishahi and Grzegorz Chrupała (2009). Lexical category acquisition as an incremental process. Proceedings of the CogSci2009 workshop on Psychocomputational Models of Human Language Acquisition, Amsterdam, Netherlands. [pdf]


• Afra Alishahi, Afsaneh Fazly and Suzanne Stevenson (2008). Fast mapping in word learning: What probabilities tell us. Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, Manchester, UK. [pdf]


• Afsaneh Fazly, Afra Alishahi and Suzanne Stevenson (2008). A probabilistic incremental model of word learning in the presence of referential uncertainty. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Washington, D.C. (Cognitive Science 2008 Prize for the Best Paper on Language Modeling.) [pdf]


• Afra Alishahi and Suzanne Stevenson (2007). A cognitive model for the representation and acquisition of verb selectional preferences. In Proceedings of the ACL-2007 Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Acquisition , pages 41-48, Prague, Czech Republic. [pdf]


• Afra Alishahi and Suzanne Stevenson (2007). A computational usage-based model for learning general properties of semantic roles. In Proceedings of the 2nd European Cognitive Science Conference, Delphi, Greece. [pdf]


• Afra Alishahi and Suzanne Stevenson (2005). A probabilistic model of early argument structure acquisition. In Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pages 97-102, Stresa, Italy. (Marr Prize for Best Student Paper, Honorable Mention.) [pdf]


• Afra Alishahi and Suzanne Stevenson (2005). The acquisition and use of argument structure constructions: a Bayesian model. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Psycho-computational Models of Human Language Acquisition (ACL 2005), pages 82-90, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. [pdf]

Old papers

• Afra Alishahi and Caro Lucas (1998). An Automatic Fuzzy Clustering Approach to Concept Retrieval and Classification of Unstructured Documents, accepted in JCIS98, North Carolina, USA.


• Afra Alishahi and Caro Lucas (1998). A Hybrid Neural Network for Concept Clustering. Irano-Armenian Workshop on Neural Networks, Armenia.


• Caro Lucas and Afra Alishahi (1997). An Intelligent System for Presenting Distributed Statistics, Proceedings of 6th Conference of Information Technology in Iran Power Industry, Tehran, Iran.


• Afra Alishahi and Ramin Ghourchian (1996). Applying Non-deterministic Algorithms in Simulation of Food Finding of Ants. In 17th Seminar of Intelligent Systems, ISRF, Iran.