Hierarchial chunking in sentence processing

Hierarchial chunking in sentence processing

Individual Differences in Chunking Ability Predict On-line Sentence Processing

There are considerable differences in language processing skill among the normal population. A key question for cognitive science is whether these differences can be ascribed to variations in domain-general cognitive abilities, hypothesized to play a role in language, such as working memory and statistical learning. In this paper, we present experimental evidence pointing to a fundamental memor...

Chunking Ability Shapes Sentence Processing at Multiple Levels of Abstraction

Several recent empirical findings have reinforced the notion that a basic learning and memory skill—chunking—plays a fundamental role in language processing. Here, we provide evidence that chunking shapes sentence processing at multiple levels of linguistic abstraction, consistent with a recent theoretical proposal by Christiansen and Chater (2016). Individual differences in chunking ability at...

Shallow Processing of Portuguese: from Sentence Chunking to Nominal Lemmatization

This dissertation proposes a set of procedures for the computational processing of Portuguese. Five tasks are covered: Sentence Segmentation, Tokenization, Partof-Speech Tagging, Nominal Featurization and Nominal Lemmatization. These are some of the initial steps producing linguistic information — such as POS categories or lemmas — that is important to most subsequent processing (e.g. syntactic...

Statistical Sentence Chunking Using Map Reduce