The entropy rate principle as a predictor of processing effort: An evaluation against eye-tracking data

Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2004 - A meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of the ACL held in conjunction with ACL 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 317-324

  Keller, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ENTROPY RATES; EYE-TRACKING; HUMAN LANGUAGE PROCESSING; RATE EFFECTS; SENTENCE LENGTH; TRACKING DATA;

EYE TRACKING;

EID: 85012023193     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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