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Publication details [#51226]

Weijters, Ton and Antal van den Bosch. 2009. Connectionism. In Östman, Jan-Ola, Jef Verschueren and Dominiek Sandra, eds. Cognition and Pragmatics. (Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights 3). John Benjamins. pp. 126–134.

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.