Evaluating Sentence Representations for Biomedical Text: Methods and Experimental Results [PDF]
, 2020 Text representations ar one of the main inputs to various Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods. Given the fast developmental pace of new sentence embedding methods, we argue that there is a need for a unified methodology to assess these different ...
Tawfik, N. +3 more
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Sentence Processing within the Competition Model
Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2003 The Competition Model was developed to account for sentence processing as well as language acquisition (MacWhinney & Bates, 1989). Based on lexical functionalism, the model assumes that language processing is an interactive process of form-function ...
JungEun Year
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An eye-tracking paradigm for analyzing the processing time of sentences with different linguistic complexities. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 An eye-tracking paradigm was developed for use in audiology in order to enable online analysis of the speech comprehension process. This paradigm should be useful in assessing impediments in speech processing.
Dorothea Wendt +2 more
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L3 Sentence Processing: Language-Specific or Phenomenon-Sensitive?
Languages, 2019 The article investigates non-native sentence processing and examines the existing scholarly approaches to L2 processing with a population of L3 learners of English, whose native language is Russian.
Marina Sokolova, Roumyana Slabakova
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Indonesian Sentence Boundary Detection using Deep Learning Approaches
Knowledge Engineering and Data Science, 2021 Detecting the sentence boundary is one of the crucial pre-processing steps in natural language processing. It can define the boundary of a sentence since the border between a sentence, and another sentence might be ambiguous.
Joan Santoso +3 more
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Children’s and adults’ on-line processing of syntactically ambiguous sentences during reading [PDF]
, 2012 While there has been a fair amount of research investigating children's syntactic processing during spoken language comprehension, and a wealth of research examining adults' syntactic processing during reading, as yet very little research has focused on ...
Joseph, H.S.S.L +7 more
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Structure-sensitive constraints in non-native sentence processing
Journal of the European Second Language Association, 2019 Studies examining the real-time application of structure-sensitive constraints in second-language (L2) sentence processing have shown that depending on the type of constraint under investigation, the constraint may be more likely, equally (un)likely, or ...
Claudia Felser
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The development of sentence-interpretation strategies in monolingual German-learning children with and without specific language impairment [PDF]
, 2003 Previous research on sentence comprehension conducted with German-learning children has concentrated on the role of case marking and word order in typically developing children.
Lindner, Katrin
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Eye-movements and ERPs reveal the time course of processing negation and remitting counterfactual worlds [PDF]
, 2008 The ability to update our current knowledge using contextual information is a vital process during every-day language comprehension. To understand a negated statement, readers are required to cancel real-world expectations, but are not explicitly ...
Ferguson, Heather J. +2 more
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A Comparative Evaluation of a New Unsupervised Sentence Boundary Detection Approach on Documents in English and Portuguese [PDF]
, 2006 In this paper, we describe a new unsupervised sentence boundary detection system and present a comparative study evaluating its performance against dierent systems found in the literature that have been used to perform the task of automatic text ...
Jan Strunk +5 more
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