Naslov
Biological and cognitive plausibility in connectionist networks for language modelling

Autori
Anđel, Maja

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
INFuture2009: The Future of Information Sciences - Digital Resources and Knowledge Sharing

Urednik/ci
Stančić, Hrvoje ; Seljan, Sanja ; Bawden, David ; Lasić-Lazić, Jadranka ; Slavić, Aida

Grad
Zagreb

Godina
2009

Raspon stranica
229-238

ISBN
978-953-175-355-5

Ključne riječi
connectionism, biological plausibility

Sažetak
If we are aiming at explaining cognitive processes with means of connectionist networks, these networks have to correspond to cognitive systems and their underlying biological mechanisms in different respects. The question on biological and cognitive plausibility of connectionist models arises from two different sides – first, from the side of biology – one has to have a fair understanding of biological mechanisms and cognitive mechanisms in order to represent them in a model, and from the other side - the side of the modeling – one has to know how to construct a model to represent precisely what we are aiming at. Computer power and modeling techniques have improved dramatically in recent 20 years, so the plausibility problem is being addressed in more adequate ways as well. Connectionist models are often used for representing different aspects of natural language. Their biological plausibility has sometimes been questioned in the past. Today, the field of computational neuroscience offers several acceptable possibilities of modeling higher cognitive functions, language among them. This paper brings a presentation of some existing connectionist networks modeling natural language. The question of their explanatory power and plausibility in terms of biological and cognitive systems they are representing is discussed.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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