COGNITIVE APPROACH TO NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

Preface Delayed Interpretation, Shallow Processing and Constructions: the Basis of the “Interpret Whenever Possible" Principle Introduction Delayed processing Working memory How to recognize chunks: the segmentation operations The delaying architecture Segment-and-store Aggregating by cohesion Conclusion Bibliography Can the Human Association Norm Evaluate Machine-Made Association Lists?Introduction Human semantic associations Word association test The author’s experiment Human association topology Human associations are comparable Algorithm efficiency comparison The corpora LSA-sourced association lists LDA-sourced lists Association ratio-based lists List comparison Conclusion Bibliography How a Word of a Text Selects the Related Words in a Human Association Network Introduction The network The network extraction driven by a text-based stimulus Sub-graph extraction algorithm The control procedure The shortest path extraction A corpus-based sub-graph Tests of the network extracting procedure The corpus to perform tests Evaluation of the extracted sub-graph Semantic consistency of the sub-graph Matching the sub-graph and a text collection Directed and undirected sub-graph extraction: the comparison Results per stimulus A brief discussion of the results and the related work Bibliography The Reverse Association Task Introduction Computing forward associations Procedure Results and evaluation Computing reverse associations Problem Procedure Results and evaluation Human performance Dataset Test procedure Evaluation Performance by machine Discussion, conclusions and outlook Reverse associations by a human Reverse associations by a machine Acknowledgments Bibliography Hidden Structure and Function in the Lexicon Introduction Methods Dictionary graphs Psycholinguistic variables Data analysis Psycholinguistic properties of Kernel, Satellites, Core, MinSets and the rest of each dictionary Discussion Limitations Future work Bibliography Transductive Learning Games for Word Sense Disambiguation Introduction Graph-based word sense disambiguation Our approach to semi-supervised learning Graph-based semi-supervised learning Game theory and game dynamics Word sense disambiguation games Graph construction Strategy space The payoff matrix System dynamics Evaluation Experimental setting Evaluation results Comparison with state-of-the-art algorithms Conclusion Bibliography Use Your Mind and Learn to Write: The Problem of Producing Coherent Text The problem Suboptimal texts and some of the reasons Lack of coherence or cohesion Faulty reference Unmotivated topic shift How to deal with the complexity of the task?Related work Assumptions concerning the building of a tool assisting the writing process Methodology Identification of the syntactic structure Identification of the semantic seed words Word alignment Determination of the similarity values of the aligned words Determination of the similarity between sentences Sentence clustering based on their similarity values Experiment and evaluation Outlook and conclusion Bibliography Stylistic Features Based on Sequential Rule Mining for Authorship Attribution Introduction and motivation The authorship attribution process Stylistic features for authorship attribution Sequential data mining for stylistic analysis Experimental setup Dataset Classification scheme Results and discussion Conclusion Bibliography A Parallel, Cognition-oriented Fundamental Frequency Estimation Algorithm Introduction Segmentation of the speech signal Speech and pause segments Voiced and unvoiced regions Stable and unstable intervals F0 estimation for stable intervals F0 propagation Control flow Peak propagation Unstable voiced regions Parallelization Experiments and results Conclusions Acknowledgments Bibliography Benchmarking n-grams, Topic Models and Recurrent Neural Networks by Cloze Completions, EEGs and Eye Movements Introduction Related work Methodology Human performance measures Three flavors of language models Experiment setup Results Predictability results N400 amplitude results Single-fixation duration (SFD) results Discussion and conclusion Acknowledgments Bibliography