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Lexical ambiguity resolution : perspectives from psycholinguistics, neuropsychology, and artificial intelligence / Geert Adriaens [and twenty-seven others] ; edited by Steven L. Small, Garrison W. Cottrell, Michael K. Tanenhaus ; Scott Kim and David Healy, cover design.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Small, Steven, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ambiguity.
- Semantics.
- Computational linguistics.
- Psycholinguistics.
- Artificial intelligence.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (932 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st edition
- Place of Publication:
- San Mateo, California : Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., 1988.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- The most frequently used words in English are highly ambiguous; for example, Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary lists 94 meanings for the word ""run"" as a verb alone. Yet people rarely notice this ambiguity. Solving this puzzle has commanded the efforts of cognitive scientists for many years. The solution most often identified is ""context"": we use the context of utterance to determine the proper meanings of words and sentences. The problem then becomes specifying the nature of context and how it interacts with the rest of an understanding system. The difficulty becomes espe
- 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
- 13 Syntactic Disambiguation over Time
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
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