@inproceedings{chersoni-etal-2016-towards,
    title = "Towards a Distributional Model of Semantic Complexity",
    author = "Chersoni, Emmanuele  and
      Blache, Philippe  and
      Lenci, Alessandro",
    editor = "Brunato, Dominique  and
      Dell{'}Orletta, Felice  and
      Venturi, Giulia  and
      Fran{\c{c}}ois, Thomas  and
      Blache, Philippe",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Linguistic Complexity ({CL}4{LC})",
    month = dec,
    year = "2016",
    address = "Osaka, Japan",
    publisher = "The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/W16-4102",
    pages = "12--22",
    abstract = "In this paper, we introduce for the first time a Distributional Model for computing semantic complexity, inspired by the general principles of the Memory, Unification and Control framework(Hagoort, 2013; Hagoort, 2016). We argue that sentence comprehension is an incremental process driven by the goal of constructing a coherent representation of the event represented by the sentence. The composition cost of a sentence depends on the semantic coherence of the event being constructed and on the activation degree of the linguistic constructions. We also report the results of a first evaluation of the model on the Bicknell dataset (Bicknell et al., 2010).",
}