Selected publications
Language structure
- B.K. Bergen and N. Chang. 2005. Embodied Construction Grammar in Simulation-Based Language Understanding. In J.-O. Östman and M. Fried (eds.), Construction Grammar(s): Cognitive and Cross-Language Dimensions. Johns Benjamins. (Reprinted in V. Evans, B. Bergen and J. Zinken (eds.), The Cognitive Linguistics Reader. Equinox. 2007.)
- N. Chang and E. Mok. 2006. Putting Context in Constructions.. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG4). Tokyo, Japan.
- B. Bergen, N. Chang and S. Narayan. 2004. Simulated Action in an Embodied Construction Grammar. Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Chicago, IL.
- N. Chang, J. Feldman, R. Porzel, and K. Sanders. 2002. Scaling Cognitive Linguistics: Formalisms for Language Understanding. Proc. 1st International Workshop on Scalable Natural Language Understanding. Heidelberg, Germany.
- B. Bergen and N. Chang. Spatial Schematicity of Prepositions in Neural Grammar. Presented at the 1999 International Cognitive Linguistics Conference in Stockholm.
Language acquisition
- N. Chang. Forthcoming. Chapter 1: Beyond single words. In Constructing Grammar: A Computational Model of the Emergence of Early Constructions. Ph.D. dissertation, Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley.
- N. Chang and E. Mok. 2006. A Structured Context Model for Grammar Learning. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). Vancouver, BC.
- N. Chang. 2004. A computational model of comprehension-based construction acquisition. Child Language Research Forum. Stanford, CA.
- N. Chang and O. Gurevich. 2004. Context-Driven Construction Learning. Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Chicago, IL.
- N. Chang and T. Maia. 2001. Learning Grammatical Constructions. Proc. 23rd Cognitive Science Society Conference. Edinburgh, UK. pp. 176-181.
- T. Maia and N. Chang. 2001. Grounding the Acquisition of Grammar in Sensorimotor Representations. Proc. 2001 AAAI Spring Symposium on Learning Grounded Representations. Stanford, CA.
- D. Bailey, N. Chang, J. Feldman, S. Narayanan. 1998. Extending Embodied Lexical Development. Proc. 20th Cognitive Science Society Conference. Madison, WI. pp. 84-90. A preliminary sketch of representational mechanisms needed to account for the first 100 words, focusing on function words.
Language use
- N. Chang, J. Feldman and S. Narayanan. 2004. Structured Connectionist Models of Language, Cognition and Action. Ninth Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop. Plymouth, UK.
- N. Chang, S. Narayanan, M. R.L. Petruck. 2002. Putting Frames in Perspective. Proc. 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Taipei, Taiwan.
- N. Chang and I. Fischer. 2000. Understanding Idioms (Word document). Konvens 2000 / Sprachkommunication, Volume 5. Berlin: BDE-Verlag. pp. 33-37.
- N. Chang, D. Gildea, S. Narayanan. 1998. A Dynamic Model of Aspectual Composition. Proc. 20th Cognitive Science Society Conference. Madison, WI.
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