Cognitive Approach to Natural Language Processing

As natural language processing spans many different disciplines, it is sometimes difficult to understand the contributions and the challenges that each of them presents. This book explores the special relationship between natural language processing and cognitive science, and the contribution of computer science to these two fields. It is based on the recent research papers submitted at the international workshops of Natural Language and Cognitive Science (NLPCS) which was launched in 2004 in an effort to bring together natural language researchers, computer scientists, and cognitive and linguistic scientists to collaborate together and advance research in natural language processing. The chapters cover areas related to language understanding, language generation, word association, word sense disambiguation, word predictability, text production and authorship attribution. This book will be relevant to students and researchers interested in the interdisciplinary nature of language processing.

• Discusses the problems and issues that researchers face, providing an opportunity for developers of NLP systems to learn from cognitive scientists, cognitive linguistics and neurolinguistics
• Provides a valuable opportunity to link the study of natural language processing to the understanding of the cognitive processes of the brain

自然語言處理涵蓋了許多不同的學科，因此有時很難理解每個學科的貢獻和挑戰。本書探討了自然語言處理與認知科學之間的特殊關係，以及計算機科學對這兩個領域的貢獻。本書基於自然語言和認知科學國際研討會（NLPCS）的最新研究論文，該研討會於2004年啟動，旨在將自然語言研究人員、計算機科學家、認知和語言學家聚集在一起，共同合作推進自然語言處理的研究。本書的章節涵蓋了與語言理解、語言生成、詞語聯想、詞義消歧、詞語可預測性、文本生成和作者歸屬等相關的領域。本書對於對語言處理的跨學科性質感興趣的學生和研究人員具有相關性。

本書討論了研究人員面臨的問題和議題，為自然語言處理系統的開發者提供了向認知科學家、認知語言學家和神經語言學家學習的機會。

同時，本書還提供了將自然語言處理研究與對大腦認知過程的理解相結合的寶貴機會。