DISCERN
Released 1993
DISCERN is a large, modular neural network system for reading, paraphrasing and answering questions about stereotypical (script-based) stories. A precis of this book and a short summary paper should give you a quick overview of this research. To get an idea what the DISCERN programs are like (without having to first port them), take a look at the on-line demo. It runs remotely on cascais.cs.utexas.edu, with graphics display on your X11 screen. The DISCERN software consists of four components: 1. PROC for training and testing the backpropagation-based processing modules (for parsing, generation, and question answering), 2. HFM for training and testing the hierarchical feature maps that form the basis for the episodic memory, 3. DISLEX for training and testing the lexicon (lexical and semantic feature maps and associative connections between them), and 4. DISCERN, which is the integrated complete story processing model put together from the final results of the above three programs. Comments to discern@cs.utexas.edu.
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Modeling Acute and Compensated Language Disturbance in Schizophrenia Uli Grasemann, Ralph Hoffman and Risto Miikkulainen In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2011. 2011

Using Computational Patients to Evaluate Illness Mechanisms in Schizophrenia Ralph E. Hoffman, Uli Grasemann, Ralitza Gueorguieva, Donald Quinlan, Douglas Lane, and Risto Miikku... Biological Psychiatry, 69:997--1005, 2011. 2011

A Subsymbolic Model of Language Pathology in Schizophrenia Uli Grasemann, Risto Miikkulainen, Ralph Hoffman In Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 311-316, Hill... 2007

Text and Discourse Understanding: The DISCERN System Risto Miikkulainen In R. Dale, H. Moisl and H. Somers, editors, A Handbook of Natural Language Processing: Technique... 2002

Script-Based Inference And Memory Retrieval In Subsymbolic Story Processing Risto Miikkulainen Applied Intelligence:137-163, 1995. 1995

Integrated Connectionist Models: Building AI Systems on Subsymbolic Foundations Risto Miikkulainen Honavar, V., and Uhr, L., editors, Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks: Steps Toward Prin... 1994

Subsymbolic Natural Language Processing: An Integrated Model Of Scripts, Lexicon, And Memory Risto Miikkulainen , Cambridge, MA, 1993. MIT Press. 1993

DISCERN: A Distributed Artificial Neural Network Model Of Script Processing And Memory Risto Miikkulainen PhD Thesis, University of California, 1990. 334. 1990