The Influence of Discourse on Syntax: A Psycholinguistic Model of Sentence Processing

Probabilistic models of sentence comprehension are increasingly relevant to questions concerning human language processing. However, such models are often limited to syntactic factors. This paper introduces a novel sentence processing model that consists of a parser augmented with a probabilistic logic-based model of coreference resolution, which allows us to simulate how context interacts with syntax in a reading task. Our simulations show that a Weakly Interactive cognitive architecture can explain data which had been provided as evidence for the Strongly Interactive hypothesis.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: ACL
• Authors: Amit Dubey
• Keywords: ACL 2010, Computational Linguistics, Human Language Processing, Interactive Cognitive Architecture, Probabilistic Logic-based Model