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Psycoloquy 5(86): Representation of Structure on Linguistic Maps

REPRESENTATION OF STRUCTURE ON LINGUISTIC MAPS
Reply to Edelman on Language-Network

Risto Miikkulainen
Department of Computer Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712

risto@cs.utexas.edu

Abstract

In his review of Subsymbolic Natural Language Processing (Miikkulainen, 1993, 1994), Edelman (1994) makes several useful analogies between language processing and vision. His main argument is that approaches based on common information processing principles in the brain, such as maps and receptive fields, are more likely to lead to insights into human cognition. I very much agree with this idea, and discuss a few concrete ways in which language processing models can benefit from principles in use in current visual processing models.

Keywords

computational modeling, connectionism, distributed neural networks, episodic memory, lexicon, natural language processing, scripts.

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