View Seminar Video Abstract Machine translation (MT) systems have been getting more accurate. One reason is that machines now gather translation knowledge autonomously, combing through large amounts of human-translated material available on the web. Most[…]
View Seminar Video Abstract Nature’s sensory systems, their corresponding processing modules, and, in some cases (such as speech) also the structure of message-carrying sensory data, have all co-evolved to ensure survival of their respective species,[…]
View Seminar Video Abstract Spoken language technologies, such as automatic speech recognition and synthesis, typically treat speech as a string of “phones”. In contrast, humans produce speech through a complex combination of semi-independent articulatory trajectories.[…]
View Seminar Video Abstract We know that adult speakers of a language have no problem understanding newspapers in that language, and that proteins fold spontaneously into specific three-dimensional structures. However, a sentence in the Wall[…]
View Seminar Video Abstract In this talk I will bring together two literatures: 1) work on word-learning in young children, and 2) work on the developmental origins of logical reasoning. The predominant view in each[…]
View Seminar Video Abstract The relationship between grammar and language behavior is not entirely clear-cut. One classic view (Chomsky 65, Bresnan & Kaplan 82, Stabler 83, Steedman 89) holds that grammars specify a time-independent body[…]
View Seminar Video Abstract AXOMs are hierarchically-arranged Self-organizing Maps (SOMs) in an asynchronous feed-forward relation. In AXOMs, an incoming input word is sampled on a short time scale, and recoded through the topological activation state[…]
