Paper Info
Title
Grammar-based connectionist approaches to language
Abstract
This article describes an approach to connectionist language research that relies on the development of grammar formalisms rather than computer models. From formulations of the fundamental theoretical commitments of connectionism and of generative grammar, it is argued that these two paradigms are mutually compatible. Integrating the basic assumptions of the paradigms results in formal theories of grammar that centrally incorporate a certain degree of connectionist computation. Two such grammar formalisms—Harmonic Grammar Legendre et al 1990a, Legendre and Y 1990b and Optimality Theory Prince and Smolensky 1991, Rumelhart et al 1996—are briefly introduced to illustrate grammar-based approaches to connectionist language research. The strengths and weaknesses of grammar-based research and more traditional model-based research are argued to be complementary, suggesting a significant role for both strategies in the spectrum of connectionist language research.
Year
DOI
Venue
1999
10.1016/S0364-0213(99)00017-8
Cognitive Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
spectrum,computer model
Cognitive science,Computer science,Relational grammar,Emergent grammar,Grammar systems theory,Adaptive grammar,Affix grammar,Generative grammar,Linguistics,Stochastic grammar,Mildly context-sensitive grammar formalism
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
23
4
0364-0213
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
1.23
14
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Paul Smolensky121593.76