More Neural Than Thou (Reply to Pat Churchland's "Brainshy")

"Making Moral Space: A Reply To Churchland" CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY (MORAL EPISTEMOLOGY NATURALIZED

Like those famous nations divided by a single tongue, my paper (this volume) and Professor P.M. Churchland's deep and engaging reply offer different spins on a common heritage. The common heritage is, of course, a connectionist vision of the inner neural economya vision which depicts that economy in terms of supra-sentential state spaces, vector-to-vector transformations, and the kinds of skill...

Churchland on Connectionism 1 Running head: CHURCHLAND ON CONNECTIONISM Churchland on Connectionism

Introduction Paul Churchland cemented his appointment as Ambassador of Connectionism to Philosophy with the 1986 publication of his paper " Some reductive strategies in cognitive neurobiology. " However, as Churchland tells the story in the preface to his collection of papers, A Neurocomputational Perspective, his relationship with connectionism began three years earlier, when he became acquain...

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YJTI at the NTCIR-13 STC Japanese Subtask

In this paper, we describe our participation in the NTCIR-13 STC Japanese Subtask, in which we develop systems with the retrieval-based method. To retrieve reply texts for a given comment text, our system generates vector representations of both the comment and candidate replies by a 3-layer LSTM-RNN and evaluate distances between the comment vector and the candidate reply vectors, selecting th...

Two are Better than One: An Ensemble of Retrieval- and Generation-Based Dialog Systems

Open-domain human-computer conversation has attracted much attention in the field of NLP. Contrary to ruleor template-based domain-specific dialog systems, open-domain conversation usually requires datadriven approaches, which can be roughly divided into two categories: retrieval-based and generation-based systems. Retrieval systems search a user-issued utterance (called a query) in a large dat...