The Human Semantic Potential: Spatial Language and Constrained Connectionism - Couverture rigide

Regier, Terry

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0262181738 ISBN 13 : 9780262181730

Editeur : Bradford Books, 1996

Synopsis

Drawing on ideas from cognitive linguistics, connectionism, and perception, The Human Semantic Potential describes a connectionist model that learns perceptually grounded semantics for natural language in spatial terms. Languages differ in the ways in which they structure space, and Regier's aim is to have the model perform its learning task for terms from any natural language. The system has so far succeeded in learning spatial terms from English, German, Russian, Japanese, and Mixtec.

The model views simple movies of two-dimensional objects moving relative to one another and learns to classify them linguistically in accordance with the spatial system of some natural language. The overall goal is to determine which sorts of spatial configurations and events are learnable as the semantics for spatial terms and which are not. Ultimately, the model and its theoretical underpinnings are a step in the direction of articulating biologically based constraints on the nature of human semantic systems.

Along the way Regier takes up such substantial issues as the attraction and the liabilities of PDP and structured connectionist modeling, the problem of learning without direct negative evidence, and the area of linguistic universals, which is addressed in the model itself. Trained on spatial terms from different languages, the model permits observations about the possible bases of linguistic universals and interlanguage variation.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Terry Regier is Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science and Director of the Cognitive Science Program at the University of California, Berekley.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bradford Books
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0262181738
• ISBN 13: 9780262181730
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 236
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible