Connectionism and Systematicity
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Linguists have known that adults (and perhaps even children) are systematic to a signi cant degree over the language domain. However, Connectionist models based on feedforward and recurrent architectures have failed to give a clear demonstration of strong systematicity. In this paper it is shown that these models, as they are used in the literature, cannot in fact demonstrate strong systematicity. Furthermore, it is argued that the critical issue in demonstrating systematicity is not one of concatenative/functional compositionality, but one of the relationship between constructive and deconstructive processes.
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