The interaction of top-down and bottom-up statistics in the resolution of syntactic category ambiguity

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 363-388

  Gibson, Edward ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Frequency; Sentence comprehension; Statistical language processing; Synactic category disambiguation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33244484353     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2005.12.005     Document Type: Article

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