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....This collocation measure gives each pair of lexical items with a range [0,1] 3.2 Semantic Overlapping Lexical preference is crucial in solving many natural language processing tasks. Whittemore and his colleagues (1990) find lexical preferences to be the key to resolve ambiguity. They echo Taraban and McClelland (1988) who have shown that the structural models of language analysis are not in fact good predictors of human behavior in semantic interpretation. Within the domain defined by this approach to devising semantic overlapping in text segmentation, the choice of thesaurus as one type of knowledge structure ....

Taraban, R., and McClelland, J.L. (1988). Constituent attachment and thematic role assignment in sentence processing: Influences of content-based expectation. Journal of Memory and Language, 27, 597-632.

.... (i.e. deciding where to attach a constituent) In the psycholinguistic literature, arguments have been put forward that syntactic ambiguity resolution is often guided by the use of lexical constraint information (e.g. Trueswell, Tanenhaus Kello, 1993; Osterhout, Holcomb Swinney, 1994; Taraban McClelland, 1988). A traditional linguistic framework of coarse grained discrete syntactic categories can complicate the modeling of such lexical constraints. A very fine grained representational framework, e.g. in terms of the lexical items themselves, is often assumed to hinder generalization ability. In a ....

Taraban, R. & McClelland, J.L. 1988. "Constituent attachment and thematic role assignment in sentence processing: influences of content-based expectations", in: Journal of Memory and Language, Vol. 27, pp.597-632.

....to cause garden path effects explicable in terms of the two principles of the Garden Path model, it appears that some of these effects are more robust and perhaps more widely accepted. For example, there is much controversy surrounding prepositional phrase attachments that follow biasing context. Taraban McClelland (1988) claim that sentence content can guide any PP attachment decisions, not Minimal Attachment, and that any problems in parsing are predictable from the consistency of subjects expectations. They did find the equivalent of garden path delays, but this was explained as the result of violations in ....

Taraban, R. & McClelland, J.L. (1988) Constituent Attachment and Thematic Role Assignement in Sentence Processing: INfluence of Content-Based Expectations. Journal of Memory and Language, 27, 597-632.

....is normally assumed. Table 5: Current set of garden path types (part 2 of 2) Type and source Example NGP1 Matrix verb reduced relative (Ferreira and Clifton, 1986) The defendant examined the evidence. The defendant examined by the lawyer shocked the jury. NGP2 Clausal modifier noun modifier (Taraban and McClelland, 1988) The spy saw the cop with the binoculars. The spy saw the cop with the revolver. NGP3 Direct object clausal object (Pritchett, 1988) I knew the man. I knew the man hated me passionately. NGP4 Plural possessive (Pritchett, 1988) The woman kicked her sons. The woman kicked her sons dogs houses ....

Taraban, R. and McClelland, J. L. (1988). Constituent attachment and thematic role assignment in sentence processing: influences of content based expectations. Journal of Memory and Language, 27:597--632.

.... Zavrel Tilburg University zavrel kub.nl Jorn Veenstra Groningen University jorn let.rug.nl Abstract Syntactic ambiguity resolution often appears to be guided by the use of lexical constraint information (e.g. Trueswell, Tanenhaus, and Kello (1993) Osterhout, Holcomb, and Swinney (1994) and Taraban and McClelland (1988)) A traditional linguistic framework of discrete syntactic categories can complicate the modeling of such lexical constraints. There is evidence that syntactic ambiguity resolution is exposure based, i.e. present analyses are influenced by past experiences (e.g. Mitchell and Cuetos (1991) An ....

Taraban, R. and J.L. McClelland. 1988. Constituent attachment and thematic role assignment in sentence processing: Influences of content-based expectations. Journal of Memory and Language, 27:597--632.

....head noun the preposition, and the head noun of the NP dominated by the preposition. We distinguish two major branches, one influenced from psycholinguistics 1 , the other based on statistics. The later we will elaborate on in the following. 1 See for example [Wittemore et al. 1992] [Taraban McClelland 1988], Marcus 1980] 5.4. STRUCTURAL AMBIGUITY AND SEMANTIC CLASSES 99 5.4.2 Association Models The main assumption is that resolution of structural ambiguity is often possible with limited lexical information, and this information can be learned from either a corpus ( Hindle Rooth 1993] or a ....

Roman Taraban and James L. McClelland. 1988. "Constituent attachment and thematic role assignment in sentence processing: influences of content-based expectations". In Journal of Memory and Language 27 .

....6 Note that the term semantic is used in a loose sense in this section and does not conform to its definition as the grammatically relevant aspects of meaning. 3 EVIDENCE FOR THE CLAIMS 8 Wilson (1977) Crain and Steedman (1985) Cupples and Stowe [Holmes, Stowe, and Cupples, 1989] and Taraban and McClelland (1988). Tyler and Marslen Wilson (1977) used Adjective Verb ambiguous word pairs such as landing planes in (3) 3a) If you walk too near the runway, landing planes. 3b) If you ve been trained as a pilot, landing planes. with a naming task to show that semantic information does affect the ....

....(2) 1) The officers taught at the academy were very demanding. 2) The courses taught at the academy were very demanding. and measured word by word reading times to establish that semantic information such as the animacy of the subject influences the immediate assignment of syntactic structure. Taraban and McClelland (1988) investigated the effects of sentential context preceding a prepositional phrase and showed garden pathing effects in both directions based on differences in context. They used both minimal and nonminimal structures as the preferred ones in the contexts they created. An example of the kind of ....

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R. Taraban and J. L. McClelland. Constituent Attachment and Thematic Role Assignment in Sentence Processing: Influences of Content-Based Expectations. Journal of Memory and Language, 27:597--632, 1988.

.... every lexical units in order to capture lexical preference which is the key to resolve ambiguity in natural language understanding [16] Taraban and McClelland also show that the structural models of language analysis are not in fact good predictors of human behaviour in resolving ambiguity [14]. Obviously, category formulation of lexical items is a fundamental problem in natural language understanding and it is also the basis of the formation of our lexical subsymbols. Basically, in our design, each lexical item has different senses (WS i ) and there are semantic relations between the ....

Taraban, R., & McClelland, J.L. (1988). Constituent attachment and thematic role assignment in sentence processing: Influences of content-based expectation. Journal of Memory and Language, 27, 597-632.

....use. 3. 2 Immediate Interaction Studies Immediate interaction of semantic and contextual information in structural ambiguity resolution has been demonstrated in the well known experimental studies of Tyler and Marslen Wilson (1977) Crain and Steedman (1985) Holmes, Stowe, and Cupples (1989) and Taraban and McClelland (1988). Tyler and Marslen Wilson (1977) used Adjective Verb ambiguous word pairs such as land 23 ing planes in (1) 1 (1a) If you walk too near the runway, landing planes: 1b) If you ve been trained as a pilot, landing planes: with a naming task to test whether syntax behaves ....

....those at other points (Stowe, 1991) The reading times for sentences like (4) did not show any such difference. This showed that the semantic bias in (4) must have immediately disambiguated the syntactic structure of the sentence thereby avoiding any reading difficulties at the main verb phrase. Taraban and McClelland (1988) investigated the effects of sentential context preceding a prepositional phrase on resolving attachment ambiguities and showed garden pathing effects in both 1 Both sentences (1a) and (1b) can have either of the two continuations: are likely to hurt you and is a routine task. For each ....

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....Preference certain semantic classes associated with certain modifiers. Examples: Artwork NPs (play, book, ballet) associated with about, by Many verbs associated with particular roles (e.g. Instrument) certain prepositions can convey those roles (Britt, 1994; Spivey Knowlton Sedivy; 1995; Taraban McClelland, 1988). b. Positional Modifier Preference certain modifiers (relative pronouns, of, other prepositions) are used in local modification more than others. While attachment preferences to complex NPs differ with the head of the modifier, attachment is also mediated by the individual or particular ....

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