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Computational research in cognitive science focuses on fundamental issues in language structure, processing, and learning. Part of our work studies the computational and mathematical properties of the symbolic formal systems exploited in linguistic theory. We also investigate both language processing and acquisition, with particular attention to the role played by grammatical knowledge in such processes. In addition, our group studies the connections between symbolic and neural computation, in order to understand the kinds of symbolic computation that can be neurally realized and genetically encoded. Our approach to these topics is by and large theoretical, focusing primarily on mathematical formalization, with use of computational simulations for support. In addition, in conjunction with faculty members in the Center for Language and Speech Processing, our group engages in basic research into a variety of areas of applied computational linguistics, ranging from machine translation to the learning of grammatical structure from corpora. |
