Connectionist Natural Language Processing

Preface  V
Dedication  V
Introduction  vi

1  Connectionism and Cognitive Linguistics  1

Catherine L Harris

2  A Connectionist Model of Motion and Government on Chomsky's Government-binding Theory  28

John Rager & George Berg

3  Syntactic Transformations on Distributed Representations  46 

David J Chalmers

4  Syntactic Neural Networks  56

S M Lucas & R I Damper

5  Incremental Syntactic Tree Formation in Human Sentence Processing: a Cognitive Architecture Based
on Activation Decay and Simulated Annealing  83 

Gerard Kempen & Theo Vosse

6  A Hybrid Symbolic/Connectionist Model for Noun Phrase Understanding  101

Stefan Wermter & Wendy G Lehnert

7  Connectionism and Determinism in a Syntactic Parser  119

Stan C Kwasny & Kanaan A Faisal

8  A Single Layer Higher Order Neural Net and its Application to Context Free Grammar Recognition  139

Peter J Wyard & Charles Nightingale

9  Connectionist Language Users  163

Robert B Allen

10  Script Recognition with Hierarchical Feature Maps  196

Risto Miikkulainen

11  Learning Distributed Representations of Conceptual Knowledge and their Application to Script-based Story Processing  215

Guenbee Lee, Margot Flowers & Michael Dyer

12  A Hybrid Model of Script Generation: or Getting the Best from Both Worlds  248

Suzanne M Mannes & Stephanie M Doane

13  Identification of Topical Entities in Discourse: a Connectionist Approach to Attentional Mechanisms in Language  275

Lorraine F R Karen

14  The Role of Similarity in Hungarian Vowel Harmony: a Connectionist Account  295

Mary Hare

15  Representation and Recognition of Temporal Patterns  323

Robert F Port

16  Networks that Learn about Phonological Feature Persistence  349

Michael Gasser & Chan-Do Lee

17  Pronunciation of Digit Sequences in Text-to-Speech Systems  363

WA Ainsworth & NP Warren

Index  372