Michael Pace-Sigge Livres

The book presents over forty years of psychological research validating Lexical Priming Theory, emphasizing its relevance in spoken English. It explores how this theory manifests in everyday conversations, providing empirical evidence of its impact on language use. Through detailed analysis, the author highlights the significance of Lexical Priming in understanding communication patterns, making a case for its broader implications in linguistic studies.

Challenging the perception of TO and OF as mere prepositions, this book delves into their significant roles by analyzing usage patterns across various text corpora. It reveals the deeper meanings and functions these words carry in different contexts, offering insight into their importance in language and communication.

This book explores the interconnections between linguistics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) research, their mutually influential theories and developments, and the areas where these two groups can still learn from each other. It begins with a brief history of artificial intelligence theories focusing on figures including Alan Turing and M. Ross Quillian and the key concepts of priming, spread-activation and the semantic web. The author details the origins of the theory of lexical priming in early AI research and how it can be used to explain structures of language that corpus linguists have uncovered. He explores how the idea of mirroring the mind’s language processing has been adopted to create machines that can be taught to listen and understand human speech in a way that goes beyond a fixed set of commands. In doing so, he reveals how the latest research into the semantic web and Natural Language Processing has developed from its early roots. The book moves on to describe how the technology has evolved with the adoption of inference concepts, probabilistic grammar models, and deep neural networks in order to fine-tune the latest language-processing and translation tools. This engaging book offers thought-provoking insights to corpus linguists, computational linguists and those working in AI and NLP.