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@article{citeulike:812857, abstract = {A method is presented for calculating the amount of information conveyed to a hearer by a speaker emitting a sentence generated by a probabilistic grammar known to both parties. The method applies the work of Grenander (1967) to the intermediate states of a top-down parser. This allows the uncertainty about structural ambiguity to be calculated at each point in a sentence. Subtracting these values at successive points gives the information conveyed by a word in a sentence. Word-by-word information conveyed is calculated for several small probabilistic grammars, and it is suggested that the number of bits conveyed per word is a determinant of reading times and other measures of cognitive load.}, address = {Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA. hale@cogsci.jhu.edu}, author = {Hale, J.}, citeulike-article-id = {812857}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12690827}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=12690827}, issn = {0090-6905}, journal = {J Psycholinguist Res}, keywords = {expectations, garden\_path, information, language, psycholinguistics, sentence\_comprehension, sentence\_processing, thematic\_fit, time\_course, word, words}, month = {March}, number = {2}, pages = {101--123}, posted-at = {2006-08-22 18:16:43}, priority = {5}, title = {The information conveyed by words in sentences.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12690827}, volume = {32}, year = {2003} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:812857 L3 - citeulike-article-id:812857 N2 - A method is presented for calculating the amount of information conveyed to a hearer by a speaker emitting a sentence generated by a probabilistic grammar known to both parties. The method applies the work of Grenander (1967) to the intermediate states of a top-down parser. This allows the uncertainty about structural ambiguity to be calculated at each point in a sentence. Subtracting these values at successive points gives the information conveyed by a word in a sentence. Word-by-word information conveyed is calculated for several small probabilistic grammars, and it is suggested that the number of bits conveyed per word is a determinant of reading times and other measures of cognitive load. IS - 2 JF - J Psycholinguist Res SN - 0090-6905 AD - Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA. hale@cogsci.jhu.edu EP - 123 TI - The information conveyed by words in sentences. VL - 32 SP - 101 KW - expectations KW - garden_path KW - information KW - language KW - psycholinguistics KW - sentence_comprehension KW - sentence_processing KW - thematic_fit KW - time_course KW - word KW - words AU - Hale, J PY - 2003/03// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12690827 ER -