Abstract
A new cognitive architecture for the syntactic aspects of human sentence processing (called Unification Space) is tested against experimental data from human subjects. The data, originally collected by Bach, Brown and Marslen-Wilson (1986), concern the comprehensibility of verb dependency constructions in Dutch and German: right-branching, center-embedded, and cross-serial dependencies of one to four levels deep. A satisfactory fit is obtained between comprehensibility data and parsability scores in the model.- Anthology ID:
- 1991.iwpt-1.9
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Parsing Technologies
- Month:
- February 13-25
- Year:
- 1991
- Address:
- Cancun, Mexico
- Editors:
- Masaru Tomita, Martin Kay, Robert Berwick, Eva Hajicova, Aravind Joshi, Ronald Kaplan, Makoto Nagao, Yorick Wilks
- Venue:
- IWPT
- SIG:
- SIGPARSE
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 73–78
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/1991.iwpt-1.9
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Theo Vosse and Gerard Kempen. 1991. A Hybrid Model of Human Sentence Processing: Parsing Right-Branching, Center-Embedded and Cross-Serial Dependencies. In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Parsing Technologies, pages 73–78, Cancun, Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- A Hybrid Model of Human Sentence Processing: Parsing Right-Branching, Center-Embedded and Cross-Serial Dependencies (Vosse & Kempen, IWPT 1991)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/1991.iwpt-1.9.pdf