Natural Language Parsing: Psychological, Computational, and Theoretical Perspectives

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511597855

This is a collection of new papers by leading researchers on natural language parsing. In the past, the problem of how people parse the sentences they hear - determine the identity of the words in these sentences and group these words into larger units - has been addressed in very different ways by experimental psychologists, by theoretical linguists, and by researchers in artificial intelligence, with little apparent relationship among the solutions proposed by each group. However, because of important advances in all these disciplines, research on parsing in each of these fields now seems to have something significant to contribute to the others, as this volume demonstrates. The volume includes some papers applying the results of experimental psychological studies of parsing to linguistic theory, others which present computational models of parsing, and a mathematical linguistics paper on tree-adjoining grammars and parsing.

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Frontmatter
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Contributors
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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- By Lauri Karttunen, Arnold M. Zwicky
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1 - Measuring syntactic complexity relative to discourse context
pp 26-66
- By Alice Davison, Richard Lutz
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2 - Interpreting questions
pp 67-93
- By Elisabet Engdahl
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3 - How can grammars help parsers?
pp 94-128
- By Stephen Crain, Janet Dean Fodor
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4 - Syntactic complexity
pp 129-189
- By Lyn Frazier
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5 - Processing of sentences with intrasentential code switching
pp 190-205
- By Aravind K. Joshi
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6 - Tree adjoining grammars: How much context-sensitivity is required to provide reasonable structural descriptions?
pp 206-250
- By Aravind K. Joshi
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7 - Parsing in functional unification grammar
pp 251-278
- By Martin Kay
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8 - Parsing in a free word order language
pp 279-306
- By Lauri Karttunen, Martin Kay
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9 - A new characterization of attachment preferences
pp 307-319
- By Fernando C. N. Pereira
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10 - On not being led up the garden path: the use of context by the psychological syntax processor
pp 320-358
- By Stephen Crain, Mark Steedman
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11 - Do listeners compute linguistic representations?
pp 359-408
- By Michael K. Tanenhaus, Greg N. Carlson, Mark S. Seidenberg
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Index
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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-x

Contributors
pp xi-xii

Acknowledgments
pp xiii-xiv

Introduction
pp 1-25

1 - Measuring syntactic complexity relative to discourse context
pp 26-66

2 - Interpreting questions
pp 67-93

3 - How can grammars help parsers?
pp 94-128

4 - Syntactic complexity
pp 129-189

5 - Processing of sentences with intrasentential code switching
pp 190-205

6 - Tree adjoining grammars: How much context-sensitivity is required to provide reasonable structural descriptions?
pp 206-250

7 - Parsing in functional unification grammar
pp 251-278

8 - Parsing in a free word order language
pp 279-306

9 - A new characterization of attachment preferences
pp 307-319

10 - On not being led up the garden path: the use of context by the psychological syntax processor
pp 320-358

11 - Do listeners compute linguistic representations?
pp 359-408

Index
pp 409-413

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