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Human language understanding certainly doesn't require a listener to completely parse a sentence before beginning the process of interpreting it. There is a lot
by indubitably 13y ago
Human language understanding certainly doesn't require a listener to completely parse a sentence before beginning the process of interpreting it. There is a lot of evidence from psycholinguistics that humans begin the interpretation process of a given word before the end of the word is even pronounced.
- whatshisface 13y agoThe only reason humans can do this is because our language interpreter is separate and parallel to our language parser. Unless we are making a language processing chip (transistors can be fully parallel) we want to avoid wasting work.
- Ihmahr 13y agoWhy "separate and parallel to our language parser"?
- whatshisface 13y agoNeurons are a bit like transistors, it's a lot harder for them to rewire than for them to perform their already-assigned task. As a result, it is most efficient to have blobs of neurons configure into task regions and do the same thing over and over. If you've already got a hardwired parser and a hardwired interpreter, there's really no reason to not have them run in parallel. (We have plenty of calories to run all the neurons that we need to, so any small chance of a benefit is worth a try.)
- indubitably 13y agoYou're pulling all of this out of your ass, right?