The Influence of Resource Parameters on Incremental Conceptualization
Erik M. Altmann, Axel Cleeremans, Christian D. Schunn, Wayne D. Gray · Psychology Press eBooks · 2001
INC (incremental conceptotalizer) is a cognitively motivated model of the first component of the language production process, conceptualization. It produces preverbal output for the domain of giving on-line descriptions of events that has the same structure as verbalizations of humans given the same task. The architecture and processing mechanisms of INC are based on simple, cognitively motivated principles. Its behavior is controlled by parameters that are set according to the available resources. Thus, INC requires no explicit and complex instructions about how to perform a given verbalization task, e.g. with respect to the level of detail, because the level of detail is an effect that depends on resources.