The Brain’s Guide to Dealing with Context in Language Understanding

The Brain’s Guide to Dealing with Context in Language Understanding Ted Willke, Intel Presented at MLconf San Francisco 2019 Abstract: Like the visual cortex, the regions of the brain involved in understanding language represent information hierarchically. But whereas the visual cortex organizes things into a spatial hierarchy, the language regions encode information into a hierarchy of timescale. This organization is key to our uniquely human ability to integrate semantic information across narratives.