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On the structural ambiguity in natural language that the neural architecture cannot deal with

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2006

Rens Bod ,
Hartmut Fitz  and
Willem Zuidema
Rens Bod
Affiliation:
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1018TV, The Netherlandsrens@science.uva.nl http://www.science.uva.nl/~rens School of Computing, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UKfitz@science.uva.nl http://amor.cms.hu-berlin.de/~h2784i25
Hartmut Fitz
Affiliation:
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1012CP, The Netherlandsjzuidema@science.uva.nl http://www.science.uva.nl/~jzuidema
Willem Zuidema
Affiliation:
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1018TV, The Netherlandsrens@science.uva.nl http://www.science.uva.nl/~rens
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Abstract

We argue that van der Velde's & de Kamps's model does not solve the binding problem but merely shifts the burden of constructing appropriate neural representations of sentence structure to unexplained preprocessing of the linguistic input. As a consequence, their model is not able to explain how various neural representations can be assigned to sentences that are structurally ambiguous.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , February 2006 , pp. 71 - 72
Copyright
© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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