Surprising parser actions and reading difficulty

ACL-08: HLT - 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 5-8

  Boston, Marisa Ferrara ^a   Hale, John ^a   Kliegl, Reinhold ^b   Vasishth, Shravan ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SYNTACTICS;

DEPENDENCY PARSER; EYE FIXATIONS; HUMAN SENTENCE PROCESSING; LINEAR MIXED-EFFECTS MODEL; NARROW BEAMS; PROBABILITY MODELING; SEARCH SPACES; WORD LENGTH;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 78851471817     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1557690.1557693     Document Type: Conference Paper

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