Bayesian Word Learning Demo

How to use the actual simulation: From the home screen, you can either choose "be the learner" or "be the teacher." If you choose "be the learner", you will be presented with five different instances of a new word, and you can then observe how the inferred meaning for that word shifts over time. If you choose "be the teacher", you will enter a word of your designing and then present a learner with 5 images of your choice to observe how the learner infers the word's meaning. At the bottom of the screen, there are buttons that you can choose to either show the computations underlying the inference or not. It is recommended that you show the computations at least at first, until you properly understand how it works.