A neural mechanism for human language processing

  • Authors:
  • Alexander Borzenko

  • Affiliations:
  • Proto-Mind Machines Inc., Concord, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Neurocomputing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We describe a computational model implementing a novel theory regarding how the human brain may process English and other human languages. This theory treats the human language as a multi-modal symbolic system independent of the symbols' origin. The main objective of our research is to understand how tiny single neurons working together can produce intellectual behavior that exhibits itself in proper speech comprehension and generation in accordance with the current context. Based on our theory in this regard we describe the virtual neural computer, which we call GSL. It encapsulates our key theoretical results and allows us to run linguistic experiments. We have built and tested a (software) intelligent assistant aimed at military applications, based on the GSL algorithms. This military assistant speaks English in real time and supplies its user with up-to-date information.