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    "title": "The (Non)Necessity of Recursion in Natural Language Processing",
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    "abstract": "The prima facie unbounded nature of natural language, contrasted with the finite character of our memory and computational resources, is often taken to warrant a recursive language processing mechanism. The widely held distinction between an idealized infinite grammatical competence and the actual finite natural language performance provides further support for a recursive processor. In this paper, I argue that it is only necessary to postulate a recursive language mechanism insofar as the competence/performance distinction is upheld. However, I provide reasons for eschewing the latter and suggest that only data regarding observable linguistic behaviour ought to be used when modeling the human language mechanism. A connectionist model of language processing—the simple recurrent network proposed by Elman—is discussed as an example of a non-recursive alternative and I conclude that the computational power of such models promises to be sufficient to account for natural language behaviour.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "section": "Talks",
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        {
            "first_name": "Morten",
            "middle_name": "H.",
            "last_name": "Christiansen",
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            "institution": "University of Edinburgh",
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    "date_published": "1992-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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