A model of local coherence effects in human sentence processing as consequences of updates from bottom-up prior to posterior beliefs

Klinton Bicknell; Roger Levy

doi:10.3115/1620754.1620851

A model of local coherence effects in human sentence processing as consequences of updates from bottom-up prior to posterior beliefs

Klinton Bicknell^*, Roger Levy

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Linguistics

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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)
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	https://doi.org/10.3115/1620754.1620851
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

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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	Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, NAACL HLT 2009
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.

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Language and Linguistics
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

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Bicknell, K., & Levy, R. (2009). A model of local coherence effects in human sentence processing as consequences of updates from bottom-up prior to posterior beliefs. In 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 (pp. 665-673). (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). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://doi.org/10.3115/1620754.1620851

Bicknell, Klinton ; Levy, Roger. / A model of local coherence effects in human sentence processing as consequences of updates from bottom-up prior to posterior beliefs. 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. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2009. pp. 665-673 (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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Bicknell, K & Levy, R 2009, A model of local coherence effects in human sentence processing as consequences of updates from bottom-up prior to posterior beliefs. in 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. 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, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 665-673, 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, 5/31/09. https://doi.org/10.3115/1620754.1620851

A model of local coherence effects in human sentence processing as consequences of updates from bottom-up prior to posterior beliefs. / Bicknell, Klinton; Levy, Roger.
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Bicknell K, Levy R. A model of local coherence effects in human sentence processing as consequences of updates from bottom-up prior to posterior beliefs. In 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. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 2009. p. 665-673. (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). doi: 10.3115/1620754.1620851

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