Abstract: The initial stage of language comprehension is a multi-label\ud classification problem. Listeners or readers, presented with\ud an utterance, need to discriminate between the intended\ud words and the tens of thousands of other words they know.\ud We propose to address this problem by pairing a network\ud trained with the learning rule of Rescorla andWagner (1972)\ud with a second network trained independently with the learning\ud rule of Widrow and Hoff (1960). The first network has\ud to recover from sublexical input features the meanings enc...
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Topics: 
Artificial intelligence
Natural language processing
Linguistics