Abstract / Description of output
This paper introduces a psycholinguistic model of sentence processing which combines a Hidden Markov Model noun phrase chunker with a co-reference classifier. Both models are fully incremental and generative, giving probabilities of lexical elements conditional upon linguistic structure. This allows us to compute the information theoretic measure of surprisal, which is known to correlate with human processing effort. We evaluate our surprisal predictions on the Dundee corpus of eye-movement data show that our model achieve a better fit with human reading times than a syntax-only model which does not have access to co-reference information.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | EMNLP 2011 - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference |
Pages | 304-312 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2011 |