From Schema Theory to Language

by Arbib, Michael A.; Conklin, E. Jeffrey; Hill, Jane C.

• ISBN13: 9780195040654
• ISBN10: 0195040651
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1987-01-22
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Bringing together the perspectives of neurophysiology, cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence, this book introduces a new approach to the study of language. The authors propose schema theory as a unifying perspective in cognitive science and use three models to illustrate their argument: a study of sentence understanding applied to the analysis of data on aphasia; a "computational neo-Piagetian" approach to language acquisition in a two-year-old; and a model of how people describe visual scenes. The final chapter charts the value of the schema-theoretic approach to computational linguistics in particular and cognitive science in general as part of the search for commonalities between the representations and processes employed in linguistic and other cognitive domains.

Table of Contents

An Overall Perspective

The Cybernetic Roots of Cognitive Science

An Introduction to Schema Theory

Knowledge Representation

Cooperative Computation as the Style of the Brain

From Schema Theory to Computational Linguistics

Neurolinguistics

From Classic Connectionism to Cooperative Computation

From Prey-Selection to Object-Naming

A Cooperative Computation Model of Sentence Comprehension

Language Acquisition

Learning

Cognitive Dimensions of Language Acquisition

A Model of Language Acquisition in the Two-Year-Old

Language Generation and Scene Description

Salience and its Role in Generation

The Realization of Scene Descriptions

Genaro: A Model of Deep Generation

What the Model Can Tell Us

Concluding Perspective

Schema Theory: A Unifying Perspective

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