My Background
- I got my PhD at the U of Michigan in 1994.
- I was in the AI Lab.
- My thesis was on a human-like natural language parser.
- I took a lot of Psychology and a few Linguistics courses while
I was there.
- One of my supervisors was John Laird who developed the
Soar Cognitive Architecture.
- So I was very much in the symbolic AI approach but interested
in Psychology and Neuropsychology.
- During the 90s, I worked on text engineering applications, which
just want to process language and don't really care about how
people do it. (I think that's why they're plateauing.)
- Along the way I got into resolving prepositional phrase
attachment ambiguities.
- I think this is largely done by semantics, so I tried to
use a cell assembly approach, and have been using simulated neurons
ever since.
