From Analog to Digital Computing: Is Homo sapiens' Brain on Its Way to Become a Turing Machine?

A Danchin, AA Fenton - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The abstract basis of modern computation is the formal description of a finite state machine,
the Universal Turing Machine, based on manipulation of integers and logic symbols. In this …

Don't parse, choose spans! continuous and discontinuous constituency parsing via autoregressive span selection

S Yang, K Tu - Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the …, 2023 - aclanthology.org
We present a simple and unified approach for both continuous and discontinuous
constituency parsing via autoregressive span selection. Constituency parsing aims to …

[PDF][PDF] Neural correlates of object-extracted relative clause processing across english and chinese

D Dunagan, M Stanojević, M Coavoux… - Neurobiology of …, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
Are the brain bases of language comprehension the same across all human languages, or
do these bases vary in a way that corresponds to differences in linguistic typology? English …

Integrating Supertag Features into Neural Discontinuous Constituent Parsing

L Mielczarek - arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.08766, 2024 - arxiv.org
Syntactic parsing is essential in natural-language processing, with constituent structure
being one widely used description of syntax. Traditional views of constituency demand that …

Improving the Extraction of Supertags for Constituency Parsing with Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems

T Ruprecht - Findings of the Association for Computational …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
In parsing phrase structures, supertagging achieves a symbiosis between the interpretability
of formal grammars and the accuracy and speed of more recent neural models. The …

Long-distance linguistic dependencies in Chinese and English brains

D Dunagan, M Stanojević, M Coavoux, S Zhang… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Abstract Words can occur arbitrarily far away from where they contribute their meaning in a
sentence. Two examples are WH-questions (WHQs), which begin with a WH-word like what …