Cognitive Approach to Natural Language Processing

Asnaturallanguageprocessingspansmanydifferentdisciplines,itissometimesdifficulttounderstandthecontributionsandthechallengesthateachofthempresents.Thisbookexploresthespecialrelationshipbetweennaturallanguageprocessingandcognitivescience,andthecontributionofcomputersciencetothesetwofields.ItisbasedontherecentresearchpaperssubmittedattheinternationalworkshopsofNaturalLanguageandCognitiveScience(NLPCS)whichwaslaunchedin2004inanefforttobringtogethernaturallanguageresearchers,computerscientists,andcognitiveandlinguisticscientiststocollaboratetogetherandadvanceresearchinnaturallanguageprocessing.Thechapterscoverareasrelatedtolanguageunderstanding,languagegeneration,wordassociation,wordsensedisambiguation,wordpredictability,textproductionandauthorshipattribution.Thisbookwillberelevanttostudentsandresearchersinterestedintheinterdisciplinarynatureoflanguageprocessing.Discussestheproblemsandissuesthatresearchersface,providinganopportunityfordevelopersofNLPsystemstolearnfromcognitivescientists,cognitivelinguisticsandneurolinguisticsProvidesavaluableopportunitytolinkthestudyofnaturallanguageprocessingtotheunderstandingofthecognitiveprocessesofthebrain