Author: Steve T. HekkanenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ambiguity
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
The Effects of Context on the Processing of Ambiguous Words
Author: Steve T. HekkanenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ambiguity
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Lexical Ambiguity Resolution
Author: Steven L. SmallPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080510132
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
The most frequently used words in English are highly ambiguous; for example, Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary lists 94 meanings for the word "run" as a verb alone. Yet people rarely notice this ambiguity. Solving this puzzle has commanded the efforts of cognitive scientists for many years. The solution most often identified is "context": we use the context of utterance to determine the proper meanings of words and sentences. The problem then becomes specifying the nature of context and how it interacts with the rest of an understanding system. The difficulty becomes especially apparent in the attempt to write a computer program to understand natural language. Lexical ambiguity resolution (LAR), then, is one of the central problems in natural language and computational semantics research. A collection of the best research on LAR available, this volume offers eighteen original papers by leading scientists. Part I, Computer Models, describes nine attempts to discover the processes necessary for disambiguation by implementing programs to do the job. Part II, Empirical Studies, goes into the laboratory setting to examine the nature of the human disambiguation mechanism and the structure of ambiguity itself. A primary goal of this volume is to propose a cognitive science perspective arising out of the conjunction of work and approaches from neuropsychology, psycholinguistics, and artificial intelligence--thereby encouraging a closer cooperation and collaboration among these fields. Lexical Ambiguity Resolution is a valuable and accessible source book for students and cognitive scientists in AI, psycholinguistics, neuropsychology, or theoretical linguistics.
The Mental Lexicon
Author: Gonia JaremaPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 0080548695
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
This volume reflects a consensus that the investigation of words in the mind offers a unique opportunity to understand both human language ability and general human cognition. It brings together key perspectives on the fundamental nature of the representation and processing of words in the mind. This thematic volume covers a wide range of views on the fundamental nature of representation and processing of words in the mind and a range of views on the investigative techniques that are most likely to reveal that nature. It provides an overview of issues and developments in the field. It uncovers the processes of word recognition. It develops new models of lexical processing.
The effect of repetition on the processing of ambiguous words
Author: Keith Edmund SealyAutomatic Access of the Meanings of Ambiguous Words in Context
Author: Asghar Iran-NejadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ambiguity
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Children's comprehension and processing of ambiguous words in sentences
Author: Judith Suzanne EvansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Handbook of Psycholinguistics
Author: Matthew TraxlerPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080466419
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1197
Book Description
With Psycholinguistics in its fifth decade of existence, the second edition of the Handbook of Psycholinguistics represents a comprehensive survey of psycholinguistic theory, research and methodology, with special emphasis on the very best empirical research conducted in the past decade. Thirty leading experts have been brought together to present the reader with both broad and detailed current issues in Language Production, Comprehension and Development. The handbook is an indispensible single-source guide for professional researchers, graduate students, advanced undergraduates, university and college teachers, and other professionals in the fields of psycholinguistics, language comprehension, reading, neuropsychology of language, linguistics, language development, and computational modeling of language. It will also be a general reference for those in neighboring fields such as cognitive and developmental psychology and education. Provides a complete account of psycholinguistic theory, research, and methodology 30 of the field's foremost experts have contributed to this edition An invaluable single-source reference
Ambiguity in Psycholinguistics
Author: Joseph F. KessPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027280819
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
The authors present a comprehensive overview of past research in ambiguity in the field of psycholinguistics. Experimental results have often been equivocal in allowing a choice between the single-reading hypothesis and the multiple-reading hypothesis of processing of ambiguous sentences. This text reviews the arguments and experimental results in support of each of these views, and further investigates the contributions of context and thematic constraints in the process of ambiguity resolution. Commentary is also made on the possible hierarchical ordering of difficulty in the treatment of ambiguity, as well as critically related considerations like bias, individual differences, general cognitive strategies for dealing with multiphase representations, and the inherent differences between lexical and syntactic ambiguity.
The Effect of Implicit Connections on the Processing of Ambiguous Words in Sentence Comprehension
Author: Vanesa M. McKinneyPublisher:
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Category : Ambiguity
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Author: Robert A. De Young