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The contributions to this volume are drawn from the
interdisciplinary research c- ried out within the
Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB 378), a special long-term funding
scheme of the German National Science Foundation (DFG).
Sonderforschungsbe- ich 378 was situated at Saarland University,
with colleagues from arti?cial intel- gence, computational
linguistics, computer science, philosophy, psychology - and in its
?nal phases - cognitive neuroscience and psycholinguistics. The
funding covered a period of 12 years, which was split into four
phases of 3 years each, ending in December of 2007. Every
sub-period culminated in an intensive reviewing process, comprising
written reports as well as on-site p- sentations and demonstrations
to the external reviewers. We are most grateful to these reviewers
for their extensive support and critical feedback; they contributed
1 their time and labor freely to the DFG, the independent and
self-organized ins- tution of German scientists. The ?nal
evaluation of the DFG reviewers judged the overall performance and
the actual work with the highest possible mark, i.e. "excellent".
The contributions to this volume are drawn from the
interdisciplinary research c- ried out within the
Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB 378), a special long-term funding
scheme of the German National Science Foundation (DFG).
Sonderforschungsbe- ich 378 was situated at Saarland University,
with colleagues from arti?cial intel- gence, computational
linguistics, computer science, philosophy, psychology - and in its
?nal phases - cognitive neuroscience and psycholinguistics. The
funding covered a period of 12 years, which was split into four
phases of 3 years each, ending in December of 2007. Every
sub-period culminated in an intensive reviewing process, comprising
written reports as well as on-site p- sentations and demonstrations
to the external reviewers. We are most grateful to these reviewers
for their extensive support and critical feedback; they contributed
1 their time and labor freely to the DFG, the independent and
self-organized ins- tution of German scientists. The ?nal
evaluation of the DFG reviewers judged the overall performance and
the actual work with the highest possible mark, i.e. "excellent".
Computational Psycholinguistics: An Interdisciplinary Approach to
the Study of Language investigates the architecture and mechanisms
which underlie the human capacity to process language. It is the
first such study to integrate modern syntactic theory,
cross-linguistic psychological evidence, and modern computational
techniques in constructing a model of the human sentence processing
mechanism. The monograph follows the rationalist tradition, arguing
the central role of modularity and universal grammar in a theory of
human linguistic performance. It refines the notion of `modularity
of mind', and presents a distributed model of syntactic processing
which consists of modules aligned with the various informational
`types' associated with modern linguistic theories. By considering
psycholinguistic evidence from a range of languages, a small number
of processing principles are motivated and are demonstrated to hold
universally. It is also argued that the behavior of modules, and
the strategies operative within them, can be derived from an
overarching `Principle of Incremental Comprehension'. Audience: The
book is recommended to all linguists, psycholinguists,
computational linguists, and others interested in a unified and
interdisciplinary study of the human language faculty.
Computational Psycholinguistics: An Interdisciplinary Approach to
the Study of Language investigates the architecture and mechanisms
which underlie the human capacity to process language. It is the
first such study to integrate modern syntactic theory,
cross-linguistic psychological evidence, and modern computational
techniques in constructing a model of the human sentence processing
mechanism. The monograph follows the rationalist tradition, arguing
the central role of modularity and universal grammar in a theory of
human linguistic performance. It refines the notion of `modularity
of mind', and presents a distributed model of syntactic processing
which consists of modules aligned with the various informational
`types' associated with modern linguistic theories. By considering
psycholinguistic evidence from a range of languages, a small number
of processing principles are motivated and are demonstrated to hold
universally. It is also argued that the behavior of modules, and
the strategies operative within them, can be derived from an
overarching `Principle of Incremental Comprehension'. Audience: The
book is recommended to all linguists, psycholinguists,
computational linguists, and others interested in a unified and
interdisciplinary study of the human language faculty.
The architectures and mechanisms underlying language processing
form one important part of the general structure of cognition. This
book, written by leading experts in the field, brings together
linguistic, psychological and computational perspectives on some of
the fundamental issues. Several general introductory chapters offer
overviews on important psycholinguistic research frameworks and
highlight both shared assumptions and controversial issues.
Subsequent chapters explore syntactic and lexical mechanisms;
statistical and connectionist models of language understanding; the
crucial importance of linguistic representations in explaining
behavioural phenomena; evidence from a variety of studies and
methodologies concerning the interaction of syntax and semantics;
and the implications for cognitive architecture. The book concludes
with a set of contributions on select issues of interpretation,
including quantification, focus and anaphora in language
understanding. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing
will appeal to students and scholars alike as a comprehensive and
timely survey of recent work in this interdisciplinary area.
The architectures and mechanisms underlying language processing form one important part of the general structure of cognition. This book, written by leading experts in the field, brings together linguistic, psychological, and computational perspectives on some of the fundamental issues. Several general introductory chapters offer overviews on important psycholinguistic research frameworks and highlight both shared assumptions and controversial issues. Subsequent chapters explore syntactic and lexical mechanisms, the interaction of syntax and semantics in language understanding, and the implications for cognitive architecture.
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