8.25, FYI: Preprint, Arabic software

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-8-25. Thu Jan 16 1997. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 8.25, FYI: Preprint, Arabic software

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Date:  Mon, 06 Jan 1997 08:35:24 -0500
From:  Margaret Ann Doll <Margaret_Doll at brown.edu>
Subject:  Preprint: Models of Word Reading and Lexical Decision

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Date:  Mon, 13 Jan 1997 17:21:28 -0800
From:  "Joseph D. Edwards" <tigerjoe at airmail.net>
Subject:  Microsoft Arabic Software

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Mon, 06 Jan 1997 08:35:24 -0500
From:  Margaret Ann Doll <Margaret_Doll at brown.edu>
Subject:  Preprint: Models of Word Reading and Lexical Decision


>The following preprint is available via anonymous ftp and the web:
>
>		Structure and function in the lexical system:
>    Insights from distributed models of word reading and lexical decision
>
>			       David C. Plaut
> Departments of Psychology and Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University,
>    and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Pittsburgh PA, USA
>
>		To appear in Language and Cognitive Processes
>
>The traditional view of the lexical system stipulates word-specific
>representations and separate pathways for regular and exception words.  An
>alternative approach views lexical knowledge as developing from general
>learning principles applied to mappings among distributed representations of
>written and spoken words and their meanings.  On this distributed account,
>distinctions among words and between words and nonwords are not reified in
>the structure of the system but reflect the sensitivity of learning to the
>relative systematicity in the various mappings.  Two simulation experiments
>address findings that have seemed problematic for the distributed approach.
>Both involve a consideration of the role of semantics in normal and impaired
>lexical processing.  The first experiment accounts for patients with impaired
>comprehension but intact reading in terms of individual differences in the
>division of labor between the semantic and phonological pathways.  The second
>experiment demonstrates that a distributed network can reliably distinguish
>words from nonwords based on a measure of familiarity defined over semantics.
>The results underscore the importance of relating function to structure in
>the lexical system within the context of an explicit computational framework.
>
>    ftp-host:	cnbc.cmu.edu [128.2.244.1]
>    ftp-file:	pub/user/plaut/papers/PlautINPRESSLCP.structure.ps.Z
>			OR
>		pub/user/plaut/papers/uncompressed/PlautINPRESSLCP.structure.ps
>			
>    ftp://cnbc.cmu.edu:/pub/user/plaut/papers/PlautINPRESSLCP.structure.ps.Z
>
>    19 pages; 183Kb compressed; 498Kb uncompressed
>
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>David Plaut <plaut at cmu.edu>      Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition and
>Mellon Institute 115, CNBC     Departments of Psychology and Computer Science
>Carnegie Mellon University                  MI 115I, 412/268-5145 (fax -5060)
>4400 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh PA 15213-2683      http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu/~plaut
>"Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one." -Voltaire
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>
>

	   --Margaret



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Date:  Mon, 13 Jan 1997 17:21:28 -0800
From:  "Joseph D. Edwards" <tigerjoe at airmail.net>
Subject:  Microsoft Arabic Software

Microsoft's Arabic products are detailed at their site:

	http://www.windows.com/middleeast/arabic/default.htm

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