{"pk":26217,"title":"A Recurrent Network Approach to Modeling Linguistic Interaction","subtitle":null,"abstract":"What capacities enable linguistic interaction? While severalproposals have been advanced, little progress has been made incomparing and articulating them within an integrative frame-work. In this paper, we take initial steps towards a connec-tionist framework designed to systematically compare differ-ent cognitive models of social interactions. The frameworkwe propose couples two simple-recurrent network systems(Chang, 2002) to explore the computational underpinnings ofinteraction, and apply this modeling framework to predict thesemantic structure derived from transcripts of an experimen-tal joint decision task (Bahrami et al., 2010; Fusaroli et al.,2012). In an exploratory application of this framework, wefind (i) that the coupled network approach is capable of learn-ing from noisy naturalistic input but (ii) that integration of pro-duction and comprehension does not increase the network per-formance. We end by discussing the value of looking to tra-ditional parallel distributed processing as flexible models forexploring computational mechanisms of conversation.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"language; interaction; neural networks; produc-tion; comprehension"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8dw7x2f2","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Rick","middle_name":"","last_name":"Dale","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Merced","department":""},{"first_name":"Riccardo","middle_name":"","last_name":"Fusaroli","name_suffix":"","institution":"Aarhus University","department":""},{"first_name":"Joanna","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ra ̧czaszek-Leonardi","name_suffix":"","institution":"Polish Academy of Sciences","department":""},{"first_name":"Morten","middle_name":"H.","last_name":"Christiansen","name_suffix":"","institution":"Cornell University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26217/galley/15853/download/"}]}