What a Rational Parser Would Do |
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Authors: | John T. Hale |
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Affiliation: | Department of Linguistics, Cornell University |
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Abstract: | This article examines cognitive process models of human sentence comprehension based on the idea of informed search. These models are rational in the sense that they strive to find a good syntactic analysis quickly. Informed search derives a new account of garden pathing that handles traditional counterexamples. It supports a symbolic explanation for local coherence as well as an algorithmic account of entropy reduction. The models are expressed in a broad framework for theories of human sentence comprehension. |
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Keywords: | Comprehension Entropy reduction Heuristic Rationality Sentence processing Syntax |
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