Analogies between language and the immune system

Jinfeng Yang; Yi Guan; Xishuang Dong

doi:10.1109/ICIST.2015.7288910

Analogies between language and the immune system

Jinfeng Yang
, Yi Guan
, Xishuang Dong

Faculty of Computing

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Abstract

Striking analogies between human language and the immune system was first suggested by Jerne, an immunologist, in his Nobel lecture. Inspired by Jerne's opinion, we re-exploit these analogies between them, and propose that words can be regarded as B cells. Based on this proposed analogous comparison, a multi-word-agent autonomous learning model (MWAALM) is designed and implemented to learn the strengths of combinative relations between words, which are the rules dominating the order by that words compose a sentence. The model is validated on the task of dependency parsing and the task of word similarity computing. Results show that MWAALM obtains good performance on the two tasks, and analogies between words and B cells are proven to be plausible.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2015 5th International Conference on Information Science and Technology, ICIST 2015
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	5-9
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781479974894
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIST.2015.7288910
State	Published - 2 Oct 2015
Event	5th International Conference on Information Science and Technology, ICIST 2015 - Changsha, Hunan, China Duration: 24 Apr 2015 → 26 Apr 2015

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Conference	5th International Conference on Information Science and Technology, ICIST 2015
Country/Territory	China
City	Changsha, Hunan
Period	24/04/15 → 26/04/15

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Yang, J., Guan, Y., & Dong, X. (2015). Analogies between language and the immune system. In 2015 5th International Conference on Information Science and Technology, ICIST 2015 (pp. 5-9). Article 7288910 (2015 5th International Conference on Information Science and Technology, ICIST 2015). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIST.2015.7288910

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Yang, J, Guan, Y & Dong, X 2015, Analogies between language and the immune system. in 2015 5th International Conference on Information Science and Technology, ICIST 2015., 7288910, 2015 5th International Conference on Information Science and Technology, ICIST 2015, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 5-9, 5th International Conference on Information Science and Technology, ICIST 2015, Changsha, Hunan, China, 24/04/15. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIST.2015.7288910

Analogies between language and the immune system. / Yang, Jinfeng; Guan, Yi; Dong, Xishuang.
2015 5th International Conference on Information Science and Technology, ICIST 2015. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015. p. 5-9 7288910 (2015 5th International Conference on Information Science and Technology, ICIST 2015).

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