[PDF] Top 20 A Model of Discourse Predictions in Human Sentence Processing

... sentence processing. Prediction refers to the fact that the hu- man sentence processor is able to anticipate upcom- ing material, and that processing is facilitated when predictions ... See full document

... Human sentence processing involves integrat- ing probabilistic knowledge from a variety of sources in order to incrementally determine the hierarchical structure for the serial input ...of ... See full document

... the model for human sentence ...their model is strictly limited to lexical ambiguity resolution, and their test of the model was bounded to the noun-verb ...the model is tested ... See full document

... explain human fixation times. With respect to the full-parsing model this result is ...thus—presumably—of human sentence ...grammars model (De Marcken, 1996; Bod et ... See full document

... accurate model will likely use a more nuanced noise distribution than the simple decay functions in this paper, which do not capture the subtleties of human ...memory model implies that the erasure ... See full document

... In order to further test the coverage of our model, we also include 76 items from Trueswell et al. (1994) with one highly plausible object per verb and a rating each for the subject and object reading of the ... See full document

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... The results show that different incremental tree buildings are involved with case-specified and case-ambiguous trees: while unambiguously case-marked sentences are processed by fixing a syntactic tree step by step, ... See full document

... memory-based model by defining the activation value, deactivation function, and the relation between the acceptability degrees and the activation ...formalized model. We think this model is ... See full document

... the human sentence processing mechanism (Jurafsky, 1996; Crocker and Brants, 2000; Hale, 2003; Boston et ...cause processing difficulty for readers due to the cost of storing the intervening ... See full document

... In light of the existing evidence that hierarchical syntax influences human sentence processing, the claim of Frank and Bod (2011) is surprising. In this work, we investigate this claim, and find a ... See full document

... In Chapter 3, using these results as our guide, we implement the constraints that are involved in parsing preferences into a very natural OT system. The constructed system is a standard OT system whose constraints ... See full document

... predicting human sentence acceptability ...The model that we used for tagging, rather than the information in the tags themselves, may be responsible for the observed ... See full document

... ing model picks up this ...that human working memory is limited to 7 ± 2 ...cremental model of language production consid- ered the evaluation of phrase structure grammars (PSGs) in a system with ... See full document

... making predictions about a single sentence to the much more challenging task of dealing with multi- sentential text, which will likely require not only more complex models, but also models with scal- able ... See full document

... stacked model on the la- belling task ...for discourse parsing. The unstacked two-step BoosTexter model performs comparably to Spade with respect to labelled accuracy; the difference be- tween the ... See full document

... This model has the attractive property that it hypoth- esizes only one unary branching rule application and only one binary branching rule application per time step, which allows it to be smoothly inte- grated ... See full document

... of discourse knowledge in sentence processing [4], Parameter based Object- Action interaction, Using of first-order logic to compress sentence, Framework for interfacing NLP with primitive ... See full document

... contextual discourse information, Table 1 shows the statistics of intra- and inter-sentence infor- mation necessary for manual negation focus identification with 100 instances randomly ex- tracted from the ... See full document

... There have been an increasing number of studies on institutional discourse in recent times. A few have focused on the media which is determined for public reading. Naturally, Critical Discourse Analysis ... See full document