Connectionist natural language parsing
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Dominic Palmer-Brown1, Jonathan A. Tepper, Heather M. Powell
1Leeds Metropolitan University, Computational Intelligence Research Group, School of Computing, Beckett Park, LS6 3QS, Leeds, UK
Abstract:
The key developments of two decades of connectionist parsing are reviewed. Connectionist parsers are assessed according to their ability to learn to represent syntactic structures from examples automatically, without being presented with symbolic grammar rules. This review also considers the extent to which connectionist parsers offer computational models of human sentence processing and provide plausible accounts of psycholinguistic data. In considering these issues, special attention is paid to the level of realism, the nature of the modularity, and the type of processing that is to be found in a wide range of parsers.
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