{"pk":29065,"title":"An Associative Theory of Semantic Representation","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We present a new version of the Syntagmatic-Paradigmatic model (SP; Dennis, 2005) as a representational substrate forencoding meaning from textual input. We depart from the earlier SP model in three ways. Instead of two multi-tracememory stores, we adopt an auto-associative network. Instead of treating a sentence as the unit of representation, we godown a scale to the level of words. Finally, we specify all stages of processing within a single architecture. We showhow the model is capable of forming representations of words that are independent of the surface-form through somequestion-answering examples. We end with a discussion of how the current model can provide a mechanistic account ofelaborative and inferential processes during comprehension.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Poster Presentations with Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5g62534d","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Kevin","middle_name":"","last_name":"Shabahang","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Melbourne","department":""},{"first_name":"Hyungwook","middle_name":"","last_name":"Yim","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Melbourne","department":""},{"first_name":"Simon","middle_name":"","last_name":"Dennis","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Melbourne","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/29065/galley/18936/download/"}]}