Natural Language Understanding ePosters

Mirative markers, such as “surprisingly”, are linguistic elements that encode a violation of expectations (Delancey, 1997, 2012; Aikhenvald, 2012). Such markers are used for expectation management during communication, informing the listener about an upcoming unexpected message. Sensitivity to mirative markers relies…

Our ability to perceive speech remains resilient to variations in voice, rate, and temporal interruptions. While inference models addressed the first two [1], the computational principles by which speech understanding remains impervious to temporal restructuring are largely unexplored. Previous studies indicated…

One of the most essential language skills that humans possess is the ability to correctly execute actions based on linguistic instructions. Here we use the latest advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP) to create a neural model of this cognitive ability. Models are trained on a set of 50 psychophysical tasks…

One of humans’ most astonishing cognitive feats is the dual ability to interpret linguistic instructions to perform novel tasks in very few practice trials and conversely produce a linguistic description for a task once it has been learned. In contrast, it typically takes thousands of trials for animals to learn even…