| Names | Project | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Carlos Pacheco Joel Tropp |
High-level vision | See this page for details. |
| Adrian Agogino Nicole Kime |
Evolving strategies | Females of lekking species can use various sampling strategies to evaluate and select among the individuals in a pool of potential mates. We will use a neural network model to investigate some of these strategies, evolving a "female" network to select the best male possible given a set of population parameters and network constraints. |
| Jiun-Shiung Wu Yeh Hong-ming |
Computation and Syntax | Our project is to conduct a survey on the syntactic behavior of PP-attachment and/or pronoun references, and propose a computational model to correctly analyze the structure(s). |
| Darren Cambridge Malcolm Haynes David Han |
Distributed consensus | We are building an intelligent agent that replicates, and, in some interesting senses, improves upon, the function of an editor in a highly distributed network of collaborative scholarly argumentation. The system we build will be loosely based on the consensus journal model conceptualized by David Stodolsky, which builds on a statistical theory of culture as consensus developed by a group of quantitative anthropologists. The system will eventually be deployed within the AAHE CASTL Campus Program WebCenter. It will then be possible to empirically evaluate the effectiveness of the system in stimulating and directing the distributed argumentation process "in the wild." For more details see, Darren's CSCL '99 paper at http://aahe.ital.utexas.edu/CSCL.doc |
| Aliza Marzilli Mary O'Brien |
Linguistic "Rules" / Representations | We will be testing some popular notions of what may be German word- and / or plural- formation "rules". We will test both native and non-native speakers of German through the use of nonce words. |
| Sam Day Miranda Falk |
Language and Memory | This project will focus on the verbal overshadowing effect, in which memory for perceptual items can be disrupted when a verbal representation of the same stimulus is also created. |
| Dan Tecuci Mark Mallon Christopher Johnson |
Spatial Relations | We will be designing a computer model of some basic physical, spatial relationships that may determine the structure of human cognition, especially in terms of linguistic and, hence, metaphorical, thought. The spatial, physical relationships inherent in prepositions are a likely target for our modeling. We will base our work off of some major contributions to this field, such as the modeling work of Terry Regier and the theoretical work of Mark Johnson and George Lakoff. |