?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Subsymbolic+Case-Role+Analysis%0Aof+Sentences+with+Embedded+Clauses&rft.creator=Miikkulainen%2C+Risto&rft.subject=Language&rft.subject=Neural+Nets&rft.subject=Computational+Linguistics&rft.description=A+distributed+neural+network+model+called+SPEC+for+processing+sentences+with+recursive+relative+clauses+is+described.+The+model+is+based+on+separating+the+tasks+of+segmenting+the+input+word+sequence+into+clauses%2C+forming+the+case-role+representations%2C+and+keeping+track+of+the+recursive+embeddings+into+different+modules.+The+system+needs+to+be+trained+only+with+the+basic+sentence+constructs%2C+and+it+generalizes+not+only+to+new+instances+of+familiar+relative+clause+structures%2C+but+to+novel+structures+as+well.++SPEC+exhibits+plausible+memory+degradation+as+the+depth+of+the+center+embeddings+increases%2C+its+memory+is+primed+by+earlier+constituents%2C+and+its+performance+is+aided+by+semantic+constraints+between+the+constituents.+The+ability+to+process+structure+is+largely+due+to+a+central+executive+network+that+monitors+and+controls+the+execution+of+the+entire+system.+This+way%2C+in+contrast+to+earlier+subsymbolic+systems%2C+parsing+is+modeled+as+a+controlled+high-level+process+rather+than+one+based+on+automatic+reflex+responses.%0A&rft.date=1996&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpostscript&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F1897%2F2%2Ftt.ps&rft.identifier=++Miikkulainen%2C+Risto++(1996)+Subsymbolic+Case-Role+Analysis+of+Sentences+with+Embedded+Clauses.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F1897%2F