Sentence Comprehension As a Cognitive Process - A Computational Approach

Presents a computational model of sentence processing that is grounded in decades of research in cognitive psychology and AI.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Dependencies in Sentence Comprehension; 3. The Core ACT-R Based Model of Retrieval Processes; 4. Extension: Prominence and Multi-Associative Cues; 5. Extension: Eye-Movement Control and Parsing; 6. Reanalysis and Underspecification; 7. Competing Accounts of Interference in Sentence Processing; 8. Modelling Sentence Comprehension Deficits in Aphasia; 9. Future Directions.

About the author

Shravan Vasishth is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Potsdam. He is also a chartered statistician (Royal Statistical Society).Felix Engelmann is co-founder and data scientist at the business analytics company, startupdetector. His published research applies diverse computational methods to the modelling of human language processing and language acquisition.

Summary

Rooted in decades of research in cognitive psychology and AI, this book presents an empirically grounded evaluation of the leading computational model of retrieval processes in sentence processing. It is essential reading for researchers in cognitive science who want to carry out their own research in this exciting field.

Product details

• Authors: Felix Engelmann, Felix (Universitat Potsdam Engelmann, Shravan Vasishth, Shravan (Universitat Potsdam Vasishth, Vasishth Shravan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9781107133112
• ISBN: 978-1-107-13311-2
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Psycholinguistics, Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics, Computational and corpus linguistics