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The Unification Space implemented as a localist neural net: predictions and error-tolerance in a constraint-based

Theo Vosse, Gerard Kempen

    Cognitive Neurodynamics
    |September 29, 2009
    PubMed
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    We developed a novel neural network model simulating human syntactic parsing. This computer implementation of the Unification-Space parser demonstrates key aspects of language processing, including reanalysis and predictive parsing.

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