Lexical ambiguity resolution : perspectives from psycholinguistics, neuropsychology, and artificial intelligence /: perspectives from psycholinguistics, neuropsychology, and artificial intelligence. (©1988)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Steven L. Small, Garrison W. Cottrell, Michael K. Tanenhaus.
• Other Names: Small, Steven Lawrence, 1954-; Cottrell, Garrison Weeks, 1950-; Tanenhaus, Michael K
• Contents: Cover image; Title page; Table of Contents; Copyright; Foreword; Preface; PART I: COMPUTER MODELS; Chapter 1: Word Expert Parsing Revisited in a Cognitive Science Perspective; Publisher Summary; 1 Introduction; 2 Lexical Ambiguity Resolution; 3 Word Expert Parsing and Psycholinguistics; 4 Conclusions and Further Research; Appendix: An Example Word Expert; Chapter 2: Lexical Ambiguity Resolution in a Deterministic Parser; Publisher Summary; 1 Introduction; 2 Syntactic Context; 3 The Role of Agreement in Handling Ambiguity; 4 Possible Uses for Agreement in English. Chapter 3: Resolving Lexical Ambiguity Computationally with Spreading Activation and Polaroid WordsPublisher Summary; 1 Introduction; 2 Marker Passing; 3 Polaroid Words; 4 What Polaroid Words Can't Do; 5 Psychological Reality; 6 Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Chapter 4: Are Vague Words Ambiguous?; Publisher Summary; 1 Introduction; 2 What is a Vague Word?; 3 Frame Selection as Word Disambiguation; 4 Frame Selection as Concept Refinement; 5 Comparison to Other Work; 6 Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Chapter 5: Disambiguation in a Lexically Based Sentence Understanding System; Publisher Summary. 1 A Lexically Based Sentence Understanding System2 Some Types of Ambiguity; 3 How to Traverse an Ambiguity Choice Tree; 4 The Syntactic Disambiguation Mechanism; 5 Encyclopedic Disambiguation Mechanism; 6 Solving Additional Deep Understanding Problems; 7 Conclusions; Acknowledgments; Chapter 6: An Account of Coherence, Semantic Relations, Metonymy, and Lexical Ambiguity Resolution; Publisher Summary; 1 Introduction; 2 Coherence, Semantic Relations, and Metonymy; 3 Coherence and Lexical Ambiguity Resolution; 4 Collative Semantics; 5 Example; 6 Summary; Acknowledgments. Chapter 7: A Model of Lexical Access of Ambiguous WordsPublisher Summary; 1 Introduction; 2 Lexical Access; 3 The Seidenberg et al. Model of Lexical Access; 4 A Connectionist Model of Lexical Access; 5 An Example Run; 6 Discussion; 7 Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Chapter 8: Distributed Representations of Ambiguous Words and Their Resolution in a Connectionist Network; Publisher Summary; 1 Introduction; 2 The Model; 3 Resolution; 4 Successive Stable States; 5 Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Chapter 9: Process Synchronization, Lexical Ambiguity Resolution, and Aphasia; Publisher Summary. 1 Introduction2 HOPE Models Normal Sentence Processing; 3 Viewing Ambiguity in Processing; 4 An Interpretation of Neural Ambiguity-Neural Evidence of Multiple Representation and Multiple Effect; 5 Representation of Ambiguity in HOPE; 6 Aphasic Evidence and HOPE Representations; 7 The HOPE Lexicon-A Distributed Representation of a Word; 8 Linguistic Performance Assumptions Inherent in the HOPE System Design; 9 The Internal Control of Disambiguation in HOPE; 10 Parallelism in HOPE; 11 A Summary of the HOPE Architecture; 12 The Role of Time in HOPE Processing.
• Publisher Details: San Mateo, Calif : Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
• Publication Date: 1988
• Copyright Date: 1988
• Extent: 1 online resource (ix, 518 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 401.41; Ambiguity; Semantics; Computational linguistics; Psycholinguistics; Artificial intelligence; Ambiguïté; Sémantique; Linguistique informatique; Psycholinguistique; Intelligence artificielle; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General; Ambiguity; Artificial intelligence; Computational linguistics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Ambiguïteit; Ambiguität; Semantik; Datenverarbeitung; Aufsatzsammlung; Disambiguierung; Linguistische Datenverarbeitung; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780080510132; 0080510132
• Related ISBNs: 0934613508; 9780934613507
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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