The Cognitive Complexity of Texts and Its Formal Measurement in Cognitive Linguistics
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The Cognitive Complexity of Texts and Its Formal Measurement in Cognitive Linguistics Yingxu Wang1 ∗, Robert C. Berwick2, and Xiangfeng Luo3 1International Institute of Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (ICIC), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada 2Deparment of Brain and Cognitive Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA 3Department of Computer Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, China
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