A Neurocognitive Model of Parsing
- I think the best paper I've written is A psycholinguistic model of
natural language parsing implemented in simulated neurons (2009).
- It's not the best cognitive model of parsing, but, I'm pretty sure,
it's the best neural model.
- It resolves prepositional phrase attachment ambiguity.
- It parses in the right time.
- It uses (engineered) recurrent nets of spiking neurons.
- It binds with short term potentiation.
- It's got a nice box diagram of networks to function based
on processing domains that links in with work from Jackendoff.
- Let me be clear that it doesn't match (anything close to) one to
one to the neurons used by humans on the same task.
- I don't think anyone has a good idea of how those neurons actually
work, so my model is a good step. (I'm thinking about putting
in episodic memory to get back to working on parsing.)