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- Paths of development range from manipulating surface-level strings (words, sentences) using statistical methods, to attempting to analyze select aspects of meaning, to generating full-blown semantic and pragmatic interpretations of text and dialog, which are required to support sophisticated reasoning by artificial intelligent agents.
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Sep 1, 2017 · With the recasting of the Egyptian ideogrammatic hieroglyphs into the purely phonetic letters of the Phoenician language, a true Rubicon had been crossed, but two more steps were needed to complete the evolutionary process.
- Bernard H. Bichakjian
- 2017
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Nov 2, 2023 · The roots of natural language processing (NLP) stretch back to the 1950s, a period of time when the idea of machines understanding and processing human language was still in its infancy. It...
Jan 1, 2013 · Language change occurs at two different timescales, corresponding to the two steps of the evolutionary process. The first timescale is very short, namely, the production of an utterance: this is where linguistic structures are replicated and language variation is generated.
- William Croft
- wcroft@unm.edu
- 2013
May 2, 2018 · Since language relies on syntax (and since syntax depends on Merge), the evolutionary steps that have led to language should include not only an explanation of how Merge appeared but also a description of how the necessary tools (i.e., concepts) that provided operation Merge have arisen.
- Francesco Ferretti, Ines Adornetti, Alessandra Chiera, Erica Cosentino, Serena Nicchiarelli
- 2018
Feb 12, 2018 · Here is how the sequence of events underlying and driving language evolution could have proceeded, according to the scenario we just outlined.
- Oren Kolodny, Shimon Edelman
- 2018
They start with a change in the way molecules replicate in the very earliest stages of the origins of life, through the emergence of DNA, and go on to include larger-scale later phenomena like the evolution of colonies where once there were only solitary individuals (see Figure 46.1).
Part III is about the prehistory of language, and in particular askes: When and why did language evolve? The text presents current interpretations of the selective events that may have led to the evolution of language.
