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Meaning and the Lexicon Parallel Architecture 1975-2010 by Jackendoff, Ray [Oxford University Press, USA,2010] [Hardcover]
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First published May 2, 2010
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November 17, 2015
I liked his earlier book on the same topic. He seems to realise the importance of high-frequency collocations in syntactic analysis of language. He has a model that maps directly from word sequences to semantics, rather than via syntactic analysis. From an Artifical Intelligence perspective, this should lead to new, more intelligent and more compact computer programs for analysing text.
I finished this over summer 2014. Previously I had read Bresnan's book on Lexical Functional Grammar, which had quite a lot of examples (but restricted to syntax, not semantics), and I missed these examples with Jackendoff's book.
Going through the videos on YouTube by Chomsky and Pinker, the linguistic community now seems to be talking generally about "interfaces", as Jackendoff does. But the idea of parallel processing at multiple levels in the brain, (in a "pipeline" although Jackendoff does not use the term) seems still to be restricted to Jackendoff. You need this to explain the high speed of top down processing in psycholinguistics ("he's got a shoe" vs. "he's going to shoot" in that video example that is currently doing the rounds on TV programs on psychology). That might be on YouTube if you look for it. ("Susan Blackmore: The Mystery of Consciousness", might discuss this).
Previously I had dipped into Pollard and Sag's "HPSG" (which is very hard going) and the much earlier reports by Gazdar et al on GPSG.
So now I feel fairly well-equipped to reason at the linguistic, as well as the computational linguistic level.
I think you need a number of different viewpoints onto the same phenomena, to build a good model. I read all the Pinker books on linguistics as well, and although his style is rather anecdotal, he does treat many areas important to doing computational linguistics, which is my field.
Anyway, my programs now work to my satisfaction. Next step is to extract ontologies from Wikipedia.
I finished this over summer 2014. Previously I had read Bresnan's book on Lexical Functional Grammar, which had quite a lot of examples (but restricted to syntax, not semantics), and I missed these examples with Jackendoff's book.
Going through the videos on YouTube by Chomsky and Pinker, the linguistic community now seems to be talking generally about "interfaces", as Jackendoff does. But the idea of parallel processing at multiple levels in the brain, (in a "pipeline" although Jackendoff does not use the term) seems still to be restricted to Jackendoff. You need this to explain the high speed of top down processing in psycholinguistics ("he's got a shoe" vs. "he's going to shoot" in that video example that is currently doing the rounds on TV programs on psychology). That might be on YouTube if you look for it. ("Susan Blackmore: The Mystery of Consciousness", might discuss this).
Previously I had dipped into Pollard and Sag's "HPSG" (which is very hard going) and the much earlier reports by Gazdar et al on GPSG.
So now I feel fairly well-equipped to reason at the linguistic, as well as the computational linguistic level.
I think you need a number of different viewpoints onto the same phenomena, to build a good model. I read all the Pinker books on linguistics as well, and although his style is rather anecdotal, he does treat many areas important to doing computational linguistics, which is my field.
Anyway, my programs now work to my satisfaction. Next step is to extract ontologies from Wikipedia.
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