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Psycoloquy 6(03): Computational Constraints and The

COMPUTATIONAL CONSTRAINTS AND THE
ROLE OF SCRIPTS IN STORY UNDERSTANDING
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Risto Miikkulainen
Department of Computer Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712

risto@cs.utexas.edu

Abstract

The computational constraints obtained from symbolic models (as well as large, integrated connectionist models) can serve to guide research in subsymbolic cognitive science where neuroscience and psycholinguistics do not provide enough data. One such idea is scripts, which turns out to have a natural and powerful implementation in the subsymbolic framework as regularities in experience. Scripts serve an important role in story processing in that they allow us to leave out details and focus on the important events. Story processing beyond scripts, however, seems to involve mechanisms whose connectionist implementation would require a high-level monitor on top of the statistical components.

Keywords

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

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