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Weijters, Ton. 1995. Connectionism. In Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman and Jan Blommaert, eds. Handbook of Pragmatics. Manual. John Benjamins.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

cognition | computational linguistics | knowledge representation | natural language processing system | pragmatics

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

Annotation

This essay focuses on the role of connectionist modeling within the domain of natural language processing (NLP) and, more specifically, on pragmatics. As a computational theory, connectionism has led to significant developments in modeling cognitive processes