Connectionist Natural Language Processing

Preface  V

Dedication  V

Introduction  vi





1  Connectionism and Cognitive Linguistics  1



Catherine L Harris





2  A Connectionist Model of Motion and Government on Chomsky's Government-binding Theory  28



John Rager & George Berg





3  Syntactic Transformations on Distributed Representations  46 



David J Chalmers





4  Syntactic Neural Networks  56



S M Lucas & R I Damper





5  Incremental Syntactic Tree Formation in Human Sentence Processing: a Cognitive Architecture Based

on Activation Decay and Simulated Annealing  83 





Gerard Kempen & Theo Vosse





6  A Hybrid Symbolic/Connectionist Model for Noun Phrase Understanding  101



Stefan Wermter & Wendy G Lehnert





7  Connectionism and Determinism in a Syntactic Parser  119



Stan C Kwasny & Kanaan A Faisal





8  A Single Layer Higher Order Neural Net and its Application to Context Free Grammar Recognition  139





Peter J Wyard & Charles Nightingale



9  Connectionist Language Users  163



Robert B Allen





10  Script Recognition with Hierarchical Feature Maps  196



Risto Miikkulainen





11  Learning Distributed Representations of Conceptual Knowledge and their Application to Script-based Story Processing  215



Guenbee Lee, Margot Flowers & Michael Dyer





12  A Hybrid Model of Script Generation: or Getting the Best from Both Worlds  248





Suzanne M Mannes & Stephanie M Doane





13  Identification of Topical Entities in Discourse: a Connectionist Approach to Attentional Mechanisms in Language  275



Lorraine F R Karen





14  The Role of Similarity in Hungarian Vowel Harmony: a Connectionist Account  295



Mary Hare





15  Representation and Recognition of Temporal Patterns  323



Robert F Port





16  Networks that Learn about Phonological Feature Persistence  349



Michael Gasser & Chan-Do Lee





17  Pronunciation of Digit Sequences in Text-to-Speech Systems  363



WA Ainsworth & NP Warren





Index  372