Language Processing
Title: Bridging NLP and brain science to improve natural language understanding
Abstract: Natural language processing systems have made impressive strides in producing useful task-oriented language tools - but even the most sophisticated NLP systems fall dramatically short of the human brain in robustness and nuance of language understanding. A particular area of need in NLP is that of sentence composition: the combinatory capacity that allows humans to generate and understand the meanings of infinite sentences based on their parts.
Title: Precursors of logical reasoning in preverbal infants
Title: Adaptation to novel foreign-accented speech and retention of benefit following training: Influence of aging and hearing loss
Title: The cognitive comprehender: Mechanisms of language processing under conditions of uncertainty
Title: Hierarchical auditory neural processing underlying speech perception at the cocktail party
Title: The effects of attention and visual input on noninvasive electrophysiological indices of natural speech processing at different hierarchical levels
Title: Variability and Invariance in Speech and Lexical Processing: Evidence from Aphasia and Functional Neuroimaging
How do listeners use their two ears to better understand speech in noisy environments, or to locate the source of a sound in the space around them? How are these processes different for people with two cochlear implants rather than normal hearing? These are just some of the questions that occupy Matt Goupell, Assistant Professor in Hearing and Speech Sciences and director of the Auditory Perception and Modeling Lab.
Does the way that you write your language affect how you speak it too? New research by Chuchu Li, Min Wang and Bill Idsardi suggests that it does.
LSD marked the 1-year anniversary of the Maryland Language Science Center, showcasing many ideas and initiatives launched over the past year.
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