Abstract
Human sentence processing involves integrating probabilistic knowledge from a variety of sources in order to incrementally determine the hierarchical structure for the serial input stream. While a large number of sentence processing effects have been explained in terms of comprehenders' rational use of probabilistic information, effects of local coherences have not. We present here a new model of local coherences, viewing them as resulting from a belief-update process, and show that the relevant probabilities in our model are calculable from a probabilistic Earley parser. Finally, we demonstrate empirically that an implemented version of the model makes the correct predictions for the materials from the original experiment demonstrating local coherence effects.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | NAACL HLT 2009 - Human Language Technologies |
Subtitle of host publication | The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference |
Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) |
Pages | 665-673 |
Number of pages | 9 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781932432411 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2009 |
Event | Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, NAACL HLT 2009 - Boulder, CO, United States Duration: May 31 2009 → Jun 5 2009 |
Publication series
Name | NAACL HLT 2009 - Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference |
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Other
Other | Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, NAACL HLT 2009 |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | Boulder, CO |
Period | 5/31/09 → 6/5/09 |
Funding
This feasibility study was supported under U.S. Army Contract DAAD07-86-C-0017.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Language and Linguistics
- Social Sciences (miscellaneous)