The goal of this study is to reintegrate the theory of generative grammar into the cognitive
sciences. Generative grammar was right to focus on the child's acquisition of language as its …

In this paper we address the question how in language production conceptual structures are
mapped onto lexical items. First we describe the lexical system in a fairly abstract way. Such …

Deep learning has unlocked new paths towards the emulation of the peculiarly-human
capability of learning from examples. While this kind of bottom-up learning works well for …

With the recent development of deep learning, research in AI has gained new vigor and
prominence. While machine learning has succeeded in revitalizing many research fields …

Semantic processing is a fundamental research domain in computational linguistics. In the
era of powerful pre-trained language models and large language models, the advancement …

A novel cognitive theory of semantics that proposes that the meanings of words can be
described in terms of geometric structures. In The Geometry of Meaning, Peter Gärdenfors …

An important difference between traditional AI systems and human intelligence is the human
ability to harness commonsense knowledge gleaned from a lifetime of learning and …

This book provides an introduction to the study of meaning in human language, from a
linguistic perspective. It covers a fairly broad range of topics, including lexical semantics …

ChatGPT has stunned the world with its ability to generate detailed, original, and accurate
responses to prompts. While it unlocked solutions to problems that were previously …

First Published in 1977. In the summer of 1971, there was a workshop in an ill-defined field
at the intersection of psychology, artificial intelligence, and linguistics. The fifteen …