Word self-organization in time and space?: algorithms and evaluation.

ABSTRACT: Words are time-bound signals and are amenable to temporal processing. The human brain has an innate ability to encode serial events into spatial patterns of neural activity (David Beiser & James Houk, 1998). Temporal Hebbian SOMs (THSOMs) allow us to take the two assumptions seriously. They provide a novel computational framework accounting for many paradigm-based generalizations in a natural and insightful way. This claim is validated on inflectional data from German, English and Italian.