ABSTRACT

Incremental Conceptualization for Language Production discusses the simultaneous actions involved in thinking and speaking, as well as the piecemeal way in which individuals construct an internal representation of the external world and use this internal representation for speaking. Author Markus Guhe presents the first computational model that captures these observations in a cognitively adequate fashion. The volume is an innovative look at the mind’s process of producing semantic representations that can be transformed into language.
 
The first section of the book illustrates four stages of conceptualization: construction of a conceptual representation; selection of content to be verbalized; linearization of the selected content; and generation of preverbal messages. Guhe then analyzes incremental processing — processing that takes place in a piecemeal fashion — and offers a blueprint of incremental models while discussing the dimensions along which the processing principles and the blueprint varies. Finally, incremental processing and conceptualization merge to form the incremental conceptualiser model (inC). The effective use of inC is demonstrated through simulations carried out with the implementation of the model.
 
Intended for researchers in cognitive science, particularly cognitive modeling of language, this volume will also interest researchers in artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, and linguistics and psychology.

chapter 1|21 pages

Introduction

part A|45 pages

Conceptualization

chapter 2|14 pages

Language Production

chapter 3|14 pages

Conceptualization

chapter 4|17 pages

Conceptual Representations

part B|48 pages

Incrementality

chapter 5|31 pages

Incrementality

chapter 6|9 pages

Incremental Representations

part C|79 pages

inC – The Incremental Conceptualizer

chapter 8|12 pages

Architecture

chapter 9|7 pages

Current Conceptual Representation (ccr)

chapter 10|14 pages

Construction

chapter 11|5 pages

Selection and Linearization

chapter 12|17 pages

Preverbal Message Generation

chapter 13|19 pages

Simulations

chapter 14|5 pages

Monitoring and Self-Corrections

part |13 pages

Results

chapter 15|6 pages

Evaluation and Enhancements

chapter 16|7 pages

This book’s theses