Behavioral and Brain Sciences



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How anchors allow reusing categories in neural composition of sentences


William J. Clancey a1
a1 NASA Ames Research Center, Intelligent Systems Division, Moffett Field, CA 94035 William.J.Clancey@NASA.gov http://bill.clancey.name

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Abstract

van der Velde's &de Kamps's neural blackboard architecture is similar to “activation trace diagrams” (Clancey 1999), which represent how categories are temporally related as neural activations in parallel-hierarchical compositions. Examination of other comprehension examples suggests that a given syntactic categorization (structure assembly) can be incorporated in different ways within an open composition by different kinds of anchoring relations (delay assemblies). Anchors are categorizations, too, so they cannot be reused until their containing construction is completed (bindings are resolved).