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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 665-673

  Bicknell, Klinton ^a   Levy, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

COHERENCE EFFECTS; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; HUMAN SENTENCE PROCESSING; INPUT STREAMS; PRIOR TO POSTERIORS; PROBABILISTIC INFORMATION; PROBABILISTIC KNOWLEDGE; SENTENCE PROCESSING;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 84858379693     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1620754.1620851     Document Type: Conference Paper

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