Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:40:30 BST CiteULike: briordan's plausibility-judgments http://www.citeulike.org/user/briordan/tag/plausibility-judgments CiteULike.org en-gb Copyright © 2004-2008 citeulike.org http://www.citeulike.org/user/briordan/article/257422 <i>Journal of Memory and Language, Vol. 38, No. 3. (April 1998), pp. 283-312.</i><br /><br />The time-course with which readers use event-specific world knowledge (thematic fit) to resolve structural ambiguity was explored through experiments and implementation of constraint-based and two-stage models. In a norming study, subjects completed fragments that ended in the ambiguous region of a reduced relative clause (The crook arrested/by/the/detective). Completion proportions up to and includingthewere influenced by thematic fit. The results were simulated using a competition model in which independently quantified syntactic and semantic constraints simultaneously influenced interpretation. Predictions were then generated for a self-paced reading task using model parameter values established by the off-line simulations. The pattern of reading times matched the predictions of the constraint-based version of the model but differed substantially from a one-region delay garden-path version. In addition, a garden-path model with a very short delay simulated the data better than the one-region delay model, but not as closely as the constraint-based version. The experiment and modeling illustrate that thematic fit is computed and used immediately in on-line sentence comprehension. Furthermore, the modeling highlighted the difficulty of interpreting sentence comprehension experiments without both quantifying the relevant constraints and implementing the mechanisms involved. Modeling the Influence of Thematic Fit (and Other Constraints) in On-line Sentence Comprehension Ken Mcrae Michael Spivey-Knowlton Michael Tanenhaus doi:10.1006/jmla.1997.2543 Journal of Memory and Language, Vol. 38, No. 3. (April 1998), pp. 283-312. 2005-07-16T00:49:21-00:00 1998 Journal of Memory and Language 38 3 283 312 models plausibility-judgments sentence-comprehension http://www.citeulike.org/user/briordan/article/2423710 <i></i> Flexible, Corpus-Based Modelling of Human Plausibility Judgements S Pado U Pado K Erk 2008-02-24T23:44:20-00:00 computational-linguistics plausibility-judgments semantic-organization