Syntactic systematicity arising from semantic predictions in a Hebbian-competitive network

Connection Science

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 73-94

  Hadley, Robert F ^a   Rotaru Varga, Adam ^a   Arnold, Dirk V ^a   Cardei, Vlad C ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Competitive learning; Connectionism; Language acquisition; Semantic features; Systematicity

Indexed keywords

SEMANTIC PREDICTIONS;

ALGORITHMS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; ERRORS; FEEDBACK; SEMANTICS; SYNTACTICS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 0035536722     PISSN: 09540091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540090110052996     Document Type: Article

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