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>The parse tree does exist somewhere in the brain Is that even clear? Parse trees are a discretization of stochastic grammars, for example, with probabilities
by jjtheblunt 4y ago
>The parse tree does exist somewhere in the brain
Is that even clear? Parse trees are a discretization of stochastic grammars, for example, with probabilities of "production rules" set to either 1 (so you get the right hand side rewrite) or 0 (so you don't get that as an option).
Disclaimer: worked on stochastic grammars for computation in recognizers 20 years ago, not sure how the defs might have drifted since then.
- solarmist 4y agoNope. The representation in the brain seems to be like a parse tree, but it is a statistical AST, not how we think of it with computers. If you have a basis in stochastic grammar, you should look into Operator Grammar. It is a very compelling description of grammar based on set theory and maps very neatly to the best neuroscience I'm aware of.
- jjtheblunt 4y agooh cool...thanks for the recommendation, as i'm stale in that space for sure