[ACT-R-users] Summer Research Intern

[Jerry.Ball at mesa.afmc.af.mil]

The Performance and Learning Models Research Team at the Air Force Research
Laboratory in Mesa, Arizona is looking for a graduate student summer intern
with an interest in Natural Language Processing within a Cognitive
Linguistics/Functional Linguistics framework to support expansion of a
cognitively plausible, large-scale, language comprehension model which is
under development in the ACT-R Cognitive Architecture and Modeling
Environment. 

 

There are several potential ways in which the research intern can contribute
to this project, including:

 

1. Extend the grammatical coverage of the model (consistent with the
underlying grammatical theory)

2. Extend the lexicon of the model (e.g. integrate WordNet into the model)

3. Add a situation model to the model to ground the referring expressions in
the linguistic input

4. Work on the implementation of mechanisms to disambiguate ambiguous
lexical items

5. Add support for the representation and processing of multi-word units and
fixed expressions

6. Work on the creation of a cognitive model capable of learning from
instructions

 

Please see http://www.mesa.afmc.af.mil/html/palmlab.htm and
http://www.DoubleRTheory for more details regarding our research in language
comprehension. 

 

It is expected that the internship will last approximately 12 weeks. 

 

If interested, please contact Jerry Ball (jerry.ball at mesa.afmc.af.mil) with
a vita and a statement of interest.  

 

 

Jerry T. Ball

Senior Research Psychologist

Human Effectiveness Directorate

Air Force Research Laboratory

Jerry.Ball at mesa.afmc.af.mil

www.DoubleRTheory.com

 

 

 

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