Experience as a Free Parameter in the Cognitive Modeling of Language

Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2016

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 2291-2296

  Johns, Brendan T ^a   Jones, Michael N ^b   Mewhort, Douglas J K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b Indiana University   (United States)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognitive modeling; Corpus based models; Language processing; Model optimization

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

BEHAVIORAL DATA; COGNITIVE MODEL; COGNITIVE PROCESSING; CORPUS-BASED; CORPUS-BASED MODEL; FREE PARAMETERS; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MODEL OPTIMIZATION; NATURAL VARIABILITY; STANDARD PRACTICES;

MODELING LANGUAGES;

EID: 85041839638     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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