Second language sentence processing is examined here in light of several monolingual psycholinguistic models of parsing, as well as that of linguistic theories specifically adapted to account for second language acquisition in adult learners. We first examine studies that have primarily recorded eyemovements to trace syntactic processing. Syntactic-ambiguity resolution is used in these studies ...

Over the past 25 years of sentence processing research, hardly any other phenomenon has generated more experimental evidence and theoretical explanations than the apparent violations of Late Closure (Frazier and Fodor 1978) observed with the relative clause attachment ambiguity. Under the Late Closure principle, local attachments are preferred over non-local ones. Accordingly, the structural am...

OBJECTIVES I explored the structural and operational practices of the chronic disease prevention and control unit of a state health department and proposed a conceptual model of structure, function, and effectiveness for future study. METHODS My exploratory case study examined 7 elements of organizational structure and practice. My interviews with staff and external stakeholders of a single c...

Second language sentence processing is examined here in light of several monolingual psycholinguistic models of parsing, as well as that of linguistic theories specifically adapted to account for second language acquisition in adult learners. We first examine studies that have primarily recorded eyemovements to trace syntactic processing. Syntactic-ambiguity resolution is used in these studies ...

This paper presents work on using prosody in the output of spoken dialogue systems to resolve possible structural ambiguity of output utterances. An algorithm is proposed to discover ambiguous parses of an utterance and to add prosodic disambiguation events to deliver the intended structure. By conducting a pilot experiment, the automatic prosodic grouping applied to ambiguous sentences shows t...

This paper proposes a method to diagnose the multiple faults in the linear analog circuits. Test equation establishes the relationship between the measured responses and faulty excitations due to faulty elements. The QR factorization is applied to identify ambiguity groups in the test verification matrix. The suspicious faulty excitations of the minimum size are determined. Faulty parameters ar...

Recent work in computational linguistics (Brill 1992; 1994) has described a transformation-based learner with impressive accuracy, speed and a lucid, concise representation. This work presents a set-based formal model of ambiguity, tagging and the transformationbased learning paradigm. We apply the model to the automatic learning of document format generation and recognition on multiple levels ...

We have proposed an incremental translation method in Transfer-Driven Machine Translation (TDMT). In this method, constituent boundary patterns are applied to an input in a bottom-up fashion. Also, by dealing with best-only substructures, the explosion of structural ambiguity is constrained and an efficient translation of a lengthy input can be achieved. Through preliminary experimentation our ...

Structural ambiguity is one of the most difficult problems in natural language processing. Two disambiguation mechanisms for unrestricted text analysis are commonly used: lexical knowledge and context considerations. Our parsing method includes three different mechanisms to reveal syntactic structures and an additional voting module to obtain the most probable structures for a sentence. The dev...