Syntactic and semantic factors in processing difficulty: An integrated measure

ACL 2010 - 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 196-206

  Mitchell, Jeff ^a   Lapata, Mirella ^a   Demberg, Vera ^a   Keller, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE LOADS; LANGUAGE COMPREHENSIONS; LANGUAGE MODEL; LANGUAGE PROCESSORS; SEMANTIC COMPOSITION;

SEMANTICS; SYNTACTICS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84859981893     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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