Language and Cognition

Overview: Language and Cognition research at CSI focuses mainly on the modelling of cognitive phenomena relating to speech and language processing, and the design of real-world systems that automate complex processes such as speech synthesis, language translation, and text understanding. CSI researchers are specifically interested in the following sub-themes:

Cognitive Science is broadly defined as the interdisciplinary study of the brain, mind and behaviour. Cognitive Scientists look at a broad range of complex brain process such as vision, speech, movement and memory. Researchers at CSI are interested in understanding various cognitive processes such as Analogy, Concept Combination, and the processing of Human experience.

Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing:
Research in Computational Linguistics use the theoretical foundations of Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Computer Science to model and understand human language faculty. Natural Language Processing systems use these models to address real-world problems that require human language understanding such as machine translation, speech recognition, question answering, speaker identification and automatic text summarisation. Many of these technologies are currently being investigated by CSI researchers.

Publication Summary

• Carson-Berndsen, J. (1998) Time Map Phonology: Finite State Models and Event Logics in Speech Recognition. : Dordrecht Kluwer Academic Publishers. [Details]
• Smyth, B. & M.T. Keane (1998) 'Adaptation-guided retrieval: Questioning the similarity assumption in reasoning'. Artificial Intelligence Review, 104 :1-45.
• Smyth, B. & M.T. Keane, (1995) Remembering to forget: A competence-preserving deletion policy for CBR systems Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.1995
• Keane, M.T., T. Ledgeway & S. Duff, (1994) 'Constraints on analogical mapping: A comparison of three models'. Cognitive Science, 18 :387-438.
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