1st Edition

Connectionist Approaches to Natural Language Processing

Edited By R G Reilly, Noel Sharkey Copyright 1992
488 Pages
by Routledge

488 Pages
by Routledge

488 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1992, when connectionist natural language processing (CNLP) was a new and burgeoning research area, this book represented a timely assessment of the state of the art in the field. It includes contributions from some of the best known researchers in CNLP and covers a wide range of topics. The book comprises four main sections dealing with connectionist approaches to... Read more

Preface  1. Connectionist Natural Language Processing Noel E. Sharkey and Ronan Reilly  Part 1: Semantics  2. Distributed Symbol Discovery through Symbol Recirculation: Toward Natural Language Processing in Distributed Connectionist Networks Michael G. Dyer, Margot Flowers and Yih-Jih Alan Wang  3. Representing Meaning Using Microfeatures Richard F. E. Sutcliffe  4. Noun Phrase Analysis with Connectionist Networks Stefan Wermter and Wendy G. Lehnert  5. Parallel Constraint Satisfaction as a Comprehension Mechanism Mark F. St. John and James L. McClelland  Part 2: Syntax  6. Self-correcting Connectionist Parsing John E. Rager  7. A Net-linguistic "Earley" Parser H. Schnelle and R. Doust  Part 3: Representational Adequacy  8. The Demons and the Beast – Modular and Nodular Kinds of Knowledge Thomas G. Bever  9. Representational Adequacy and the Case for a Hybrid Connectionist/Marker-parsing Model George Berg  10. A Step Toward Sub-symbolic Language Models without Linguistic Representations George Dorffner  Part 4: Computational Psycholinguistics  11. Connectionist Models of Speech Perception Dominic W. Massaro  12. Connectionism: A New Breed of Bottom-up Model? Dennis Norris  13. Models of Form-related Priming in Comprehension and Production Padraig G. O’Seaghdha, Gary S. Dell, Robert R. Peterson and Cornell Juliano  14. Reading with Attentional Impairments: A Brain-damaged Model of Neglect and Attentional Dyslexias Michael C. Mozer and Marlene Behrmann.  Author Index.  Subject Index.

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R G Reilly, Noel Sharkey