A Pseudo-Deterministic Model of Human Language Processing

Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 495-500

  Ball, Jerry T ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

cognitively plausible; context accommodation; functional; HLP; non monotonic; pseudo deterministic

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURES; COGNITIVELY PLAUSIBLE; CONTEXT ACCOMMODATION; DETERMINISTIC MODELING; DETERMINISTICS; FUNCTIONAL; HUMAN LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MONOTONICS; NON-MONOTONIC; PSEUDO-DETERMINISTIC;

EID: 85139206555     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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