A Probabilistic Earley Parser as a Psycholinguistic Model

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Volume:: Second Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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Year:: 2001
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This paper introduced the connection between language probability and cognitive load. It proposed the use of surprisal to assess the difficulty of comprehension, where less expected words following a given context require more cognitive effort. This work still has impact across psycholinguistics, cognitive science, and natural language processing. What the author proposed is still very much applicable today.
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Cite (ACL):: John Hale. 2001. A Probabilistic Earley Parser as a Psycholinguistic Model. In Second Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):: A Probabilistic Earley Parser as a Psycholinguistic Model (Hale, NAACL 2001)
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