The Relation between Parsing and Production

美国国家科学基金会将支持在马里兰大学帕克分校举办的关于句法分析和生成之间关系的研讨会，作为2004年3月25日至27日举行的第17届城市大学人类句子处理年会的一部分。研讨会将从心理学、计算和神经心理学的角度汇聚语言产生和语言理解方面的主要研究人员，目的是对产生和理解之间的相似之处和差异进行新的综合。直到最近，对说话和理解的研究使用了很大不同的方法，调查了很大程度上不同的现象；这导致了这样一种观点，即句子理解和句子产生在很大程度上是独立的认知系统。这两个领域的最新进展现在显示了一幅不同的图景：对说话和理解的平行实验和计算研究表明，用于这两项任务的机制有很大的重叠。研讨会上讨论的具体问题包括：除了使用相同的语言之外，句子理解和表达还有什么共同之处？理解和生产是否在同一时间尺度上运作？在语言障碍中，关于说话和理解之间的相似之处的实验发现，如何才能与说和理解之间的分离的发现相一致？什么样的方法才能更好地比较理解和成果？研讨会将对研究和教育产生广泛的影响。正确理解语言产生和语言理解之间的关系对于许多不同的领域都很重要，包括语言学习，特别是语言障碍的研究，在语言障碍的研究中，语言理解和语言产生经常被发现受到不同的影响。对理解和产生之间关系的更好的理解也对交互式自然语言主体的计算模型的发展有意义。讲习班将促进不同领域的研究人员之间的互动，并通过支持学生的参与，加强对新一代研究人员的培训。讲习班的结果将在一期特刊上发表。

The National Science Foundation will support a workshop on The Relation between Parsing and Production, to be held at the University of Maryland, College Park, as a part of the 17th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, March 25-27, 2004. The workshop will bring together leading researchers on language production and language understanding from psychological, computational and neuropsychological perspectives, with the goal of generating a new synthesis of the parallels and differences between production and comprehension. Until recently, research on speaking and understanding investigated largely different phenomena, using largely different methodologies; this led to the view that sentence comprehension and sentence production are largely independent cognitive systems. Recent advances in both fields now suggest a different picture: parallel experimental and computational investigations of speaking and understanding indicate that there is substantial overlap in the mechanisms used for both tasks. The specific questions addressed at the workshop will include the following: What do sentence comprehension and production have in common, beyond the fact that they use the same language? Do comprehension and production operate on the same time-scale? How can experimental findings of close parallels between speaking and understanding be reconciled with the finding of dissociations between speaking and understanding in language disorders? What methodologies will allow closer comparison of comprehension and production?The workshop will have broad impacts for both research and education. A proper understanding of the relation between language production and language comprehension is important for a number of different fields, including language learning and especially the study of language disorders, where language comprehension and language production have often been found to be differentially impacted. An improved understanding of the relation between comprehension and production also has implications for the development of computational models of interactive natural language agents. The workshop will foster interaction among researchers in different fields, and by supporting the participation of students, it will enhance the training of a new generation of researchers. Results of the workshop will be made available through publication in a special journal issue.