Center for Research in Cognitive Science

认知科学研究中心

• 批准号: 8920230
• 负责人: Aravind Joshi
• 金额: $ 2087.87万
• 依托单位: University of Pennsylvania
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-02-01 至 2002-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8920230&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Center; Research; Cognitive; Science

ABSTRACT This proposal from the University of Pennsylvania requests funds to establish a Science Technology Center for Research in Cognitive Science. The Director of the Center will be Professor Aravind K. Joshi. The Center for Research in Cognitive Science unites a diverse and richly interconnected group from many traditional disciplines (computer science, linguistics, mathematics, philosophy, and psychology). The goal of the research is to understand the processes and mechanisms by which human beings acquire knowledge about their environment, store and retrieve that knowledge, communicate it to others, and apply it to carry out actions and manipulate their environment. The research is organized into three separate but highly interrelated themes: perception and action, language learning, and language processing. Research in the area of perception and action spans the processes involved in the first stages of visual and auditory representation of spatial and spectral information, to higher order representations of more complex attributes, to the storage and retrieval of such representations by the organism as they are used in goal-oriented actions. The study of language learning focuses on how children develop the abstract representations of language on the basis of their visual and auditory perceptions. The research in language processing combines investigation of formal systems with investigation of computational models, all in the context of empirical study of a wide range of natural languages. Significant features of the perception and action research are its increasing fidelity to actual neural computation and its sophisticated computational modeling and related potential for contributing to artificial intelligence technology. The language learning research has significant potential for technological spin-off in machine learning and automatic acquisition of lexical and grammatical information for language systems, crucial to the development of grammars sufficient for the robust analysis of unconstrained text. And the language processing research will have significant impact on the technological base for human- computer interaction, in particular the design of natural language interfaces for data base and expert systems and knowledge-rich systems in general. This Center will stimulate enhanced activity in precollege education and in the development of human resources.

摘要 宾夕法尼亚大学的这份提案要求 建立科学技术研究中心， 认知科学 中心主任将是教授 亚拉文湾乔希 认知科学研究中心联合了一个多样化的， 一个由许多传统学科组成的相互关联的团体 （计算机科学、语言学、数学、哲学和 心理学）。 研究的目的是了解 人类获取知识的过程和机制 关于他们的环境，存储和检索这些知识， 将其传达给他人，并将其应用于执行行动， 操纵环境。 该研究分为三个独立但高度 相互关联的主题：感知和行动，语言学习， 和语言处理。 在感知领域的研究， 行动跨越了视觉的第一阶段所涉及的过程 以及空间和频谱信息的听觉表示， 到更复杂属性的高阶表示， 生物体对这些表征的存储和检索 因为它们被用于目标导向的行动。 语言研究 学习的重点是孩子如何发展抽象的 语言的视觉表现， 听觉 语言处理研究 将正式系统的研究与 计算模型，所有这些都是在一个 广泛的自然语言。 感知和行动研究的重要特征是 它对实际神经计算的保真度越来越高， 复杂的计算模型和相关的潜力， 为人工智能技术做出贡献。 语言 学习研究具有巨大的技术潜力 机器学习中衍生现象与词汇自动获取 语言系统的语法信息，对 开发足够的语法，以进行强大的分析， 无约束文本。 语言处理研究将 对人类的技术基础产生重大影响- 计算机交互，特别是自然的设计 数据库和专家系统的语言接口， 知识丰富的系统。 该中心将刺激增强活动在学前教育 教育和人力资源开发。