Title :
Learning to understand sentences in a connectionist network
Author :
Nolfi, Stefano ; Parisi, Domenico
Author_Institution :
Fondazione Sigma Tau, Roma, Italy
Abstract :
Language understanding implies understanding of subject, verb, and object. The authors describe this as establishing the correct ´assembly links´ between pairs of words in the input sentence. Some experiments are reported in which a network with memory units learn to understand sentences by incorporating during learning various constraints which are activated by word order, morphology, and prepositional marking of nouns.<>
Keywords :
grammars; learning systems; natural languages; neural nets; speech recognition; assembly links; connectionist network; grammar; memory units; morphology; nouns; object; parsing; prepositional marking; sentence understanding; speech recognition; subject; syntax; verb; word order; Languages; Learning systems; Natural languages; Neural networks; Speech recognition;
Conference_Titel :
Neural Networks, 1988., IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA, USA
DOI :
10.1109/ICNN.1988.23931