Conglomerate' neural network architectures: The way ahead for simulating early language development

Journal of Information Science and Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 235-266

  Abidi, Syed Sibte Raza ^a   Ahmad, Khrushid ^b  

^a SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive modelling; Conglomerate architecture; Language development; Supervised unsupervised learning

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

CONGLOMERATE ARCHITECTURE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 0031166769     PISSN: 10162364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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