Computational Structure of Human Language

The central thesis of this report is that human language is NP-complete. That is, the process of comprehending and producing utterances is bounded above by the class NP, and below by NP-hardness. This constructive complexity thesis has two empirical consequences. The first is to predict that a...

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Main Author: Ristad, Eric Sven
Language:en_US
Published: 2004
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7038