A Bayesian model predicts human parse preference and reading times in sentence processing

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  Narayanan, Srini ^a   Jurafsky, Daniel ^b  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES;

BAYESIAN; BAYESIAN DECISION; BAYESIAN MODEL; COMPREHENSION PROCESS; HUMAN LANGUAGE; REASONERS; SENTENCE PROCESSING;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 84899017154     PISSN: 10495258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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