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Template Construction Grammar: From Visual Scene Description to Language Comprehension and Agrammatism

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Author	Barrès, Victor Lee, Jinyong
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	How does the language system coordinate with our visual system to yield flexible integration of linguistic, perceptual, and world-knowledge information when we communicate about the world we perceive? Schema theory is a computational framework that allows the simulation of perceptuo-motor coordination programs on the basis of known brain operating principles such as cooperative computation and distributed processing. We present first its application to a model of language production, SemRep/TCG, which combines a semantic representation of visual scenes (SemRep) with Template Construction Grammar (TCG) as a means to generate verbal descriptions of a scene from its associated SemRep graph. SemRep/TCG combines the neurocomputational framework of schema theory with the representational format of construction grammar in a model linking eye-tracking data to visual scene descriptions. We then offer a conceptual extension of TCG to include language comprehension and address data on the role of both world knowledge and grammatical semantics in the comprehension performances of agrammatic aphasic patients. This extension introduces a distinction between heavy and light semantics. The TCG model of language comprehension offers a computational framework to quantitatively analyze the distributed dynamics of language processes, focusing on the interactions between grammatical, world knowledge, and visual information. In particular, it reveals interesting implications for the understanding of the various patterns of comprehension performances of agrammatic aphasics measured using sentence-picture matching tasks. This new step in the life cycle of the model serves as a basis for exploring the specific challenges that neurolinguistic computational modeling poses to the neuroinformatics community.
Starting Page	181
Ending Page	208
Page Count	28
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15392791
Journal	Neuroinformatics
Volume Number	12
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15590089
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2013-07-27
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Neurolinguistics Computational model Construction grammar Visual scene description Schema theory Agrammatism Language comprehension Language production Neurosciences Bioinformatics Computational Biology/Bioinformatics Computer Application in Life Sciences Neurology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Neuroscience Information Systems Software

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