Author: Kees van DeemterPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262034557
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
8.6 Issues Raised by the Algorithms Proposed
Computational Models of Referring
Author: Kees van DeemterPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262034557
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
8.6 Issues Raised by the Algorithms Proposed
The Cambridge Handbook of Computational Psychology
Author: Ron SunPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521674107
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 767
Book Description
A cutting-edge reference source for the interdisciplinary field of computational cognitive modeling.
The Cambridge Handbook of Psycholinguistics
Author: Michael SpiveyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139536141
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 1297
Book Description
Our ability to speak, write, understand speech and read is critical to our ability to function in today's society. As such, psycholinguistics, or the study of how humans learn and use language, is a central topic in cognitive science. This comprehensive handbook is a collection of chapters written not by practitioners in the field, who can summarize the work going on around them, but by trailblazers from a wide array of subfields, who have been shaping the field of psycholinguistics over the last decade. Some topics discussed include how children learn language, how average adults understand and produce language, how language is represented in the brain, how brain-damaged individuals perform in terms of their language abilities and computer-based models of language and meaning. This is required reading for advanced researchers, graduate students and upper-level undergraduates who are interested in the recent developments and the future of psycholinguistics.
Computational Social Psychology
Author: Robin R. VallacherPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351701673
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Computational Social Psychology showcases a new approach to social psychology that enables theorists and researchers to specify social psychological processes in terms of formal rules that can be implemented and tested using the power of high speed computing technology and sophisticated software. This approach allows for previously infeasible investigations of the multi-dimensional nature of human experience as it unfolds in accordance with different temporal patterns on different timescales. In effect, the computational approach represents a rediscovery of the themes and ambitions that launched the field over a century ago. The book brings together social psychologists with varying topical interests who are taking the lead in this redirection of the field. Many present formal models that are implemented in computer simulations to test basic assumptions and investigate the emergence of higher-order properties; others develop models to fit the real-time evolution of people’s inner states, overt behavior, and social interactions. Collectively, the contributions illustrate how the methods and tools of the computational approach can investigate, and transform, the diverse landscape of social psychology.
Cognitive Modeling
Author: Thad A. PolkPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262661164
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 1300
Book Description
A comprehensive introduction to the computational modeling of human cognition.
Models of Computation
Author: Models of Reference
Author: Kees van DeemterPublisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2889451607
Category : Communication
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
To communicate, speakers need to make it clear what they are talking about. Referring expressions play a crucial part in achieving this, by anchoring utterances to things. Examples of referring expressions include noun phrases such as “this phenomenon”, “it” and “the phenomenon to which this Topic is devoted”. Reference is studied throughout the Cognitive Sciences (from philosophy and logic to neuro-psychology, computer science and linguistics), because it is thought to lie at the core of all of communication. Recent years have seen a new wave of work on models of referring, as witnessed by a number of recent research projects, books, and journal Special Issues. The Research Topic “Models of Reference” in Frontiers in Psychology is a new milestone, focusing on contributions from Psycholinguistics and Computational Linguistics. The articles in it are concerned with such issues as audience design, overspecification, visual perception, and variation between speakers.
Referring in Language
Author: Lise FontainePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107143470
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
A comprehensive and integrated approach to referring expressions and their typical and atypical use in different language contexts.
The Oxford Handbook of Reference
Author: Jeanette GundelPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191510971
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 605
Book Description
This handbook presents an overview of the phenomenon of reference - the ability to refer to and pick out entities - which is an essential part of human language and cognition. In the volume's 21 chapters, international experts in the field offer a critical account of all aspects of reference from a range of theoretical perspectives. Chapters in the first part of the book are concerned with basic questions related to different types of referring expression and their interpretation. They address questions about the role of the speaker - including speaker intentions - and of the addressee, as well as the role played by the semantics of the linguistic forms themselves in establishing reference. This part also explores the nature of such concepts as definite and indefinite reference and specificity, and the conditions under which reference may fail. The second part of the volume looks at implications and applications, with chapters covering such topics as the acquisition of reference by children, the processing of reference both in the human brain and by machines. The volume will be of interest to linguists in a wide range of subfields, including semantics, pragmatics, computational linguistics, and psycho- and neurolinguistics, as well as scholars in related fields such as philosophy and computer science.
Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis in Archaeological Computational Modeling
Author: Marieka Brouwer BurgPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319278339
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
This volume deals with the pressing issue of uncertainty in archaeological modeling. Detecting where and when uncertainty is introduced to the modeling process is critical, as are strategies for minimizing, reconciling, or accommodating such uncertainty. Included chapters provide unique perspectives on uncertainty in archaeological modeling, ranging in both theoretical and methodological orientation. The strengths and weaknesses of various identification and mitigation techniques are discussed, in particular sensitivity analysis. The chapters demonstrate that for archaeological modeling purposes, there is no quick fix for uncertainty; indeed, each archaeological model requires intensive consideration of uncertainty and specific applications for calibration and validation. As very few such techniques have been problematized in a systematic manner or published in the archaeological literature, this volume aims to provide guidance and direction to other modelers in the field by distilling some basic principles for model testing derived from insight gathered in the case studies presented. Additionally, model applications and their attendant uncertainties are presented from distinct spatio-temporal contexts and will appeal to a broad range of archaeological modelers. This volume will also be of interest to non-modeling archaeologists, as consideration of uncertainty when interpreting the archaeological record is also a vital concern for the development of non-formal (or implicit) models of human behavior in the past.