Browsing Publications by Subject "Language"

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    • The Compositional Nature of Event Representations in the Human Brain 

      Barbu, Andrei; Narayanaswamy, Siddharth; Xiong, Caiming; Corso, Jason J.; Fellbaum, Christiane D.; e.a. (Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM), arXiv, 2014-07-14)
      How does the human brain represent simple compositions of constituents: actors, verbs, objects, directions, and locations? Subjects viewed videos during neuroimaging (fMRI) sessions from which sentential descriptions of ...

    • The Genesis Story Understanding and Story Telling System A 21st Century Step toward Artificial Intelligence 

      Winston, Patrick Henry (Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM), 2014-06-10)
      Story understanding is an important differentiator of human intelligence, perhaps the most important differentiator. The Genesis system was built to model and explore aspects of story understanding using simply expressed, ...

    • Learning An Invariant Speech Representation 

      Evangelopoulos, Georgios; Voinea, Stephen; Zhang, Chiyuan; Rosasco, Lorenzo; Poggio, Tomaso (Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM), arXiv, 2014-06-15)
      Recognition of speech, and in particular the ability to generalize and learn from small sets of labelled examples like humans do, depends on an appropriate representation of the acoustic input. We formulate the problem of ...

    • Reconstructing Native Language Typology from Foreign Language Usage 

      Berzak, Yevgeni; Reichart, Roi; Katz, Boris (Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM), arXiv, 2014-04-25)
      Linguists and psychologists have long been studying cross-linguistic transfer, the influence of native language properties on linguistic performance in a foreign language. In this work we provide empirical evidence for ...