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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"surprisal"”.
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The effects of character predictability on eye-movement control in reading Mandarin Chinese texts
… two information complexity metrics -- character surprisal and entropy reduction -- were computed from the results of the cloze surveys (cf. Lowder et al., 2018) and were used as measures for character predictability. In several analyses, the results showed significant effects for both, suggesting …
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Expectation-based comprehension of linguistic input: facilitation from visual context
… is largely mediated by the effect of multimodal surprisal(the relative entropy induced by the word between the distributions over interpretations of the previous words in the sentence and the image). We also found that the errors that people are prone to make in reading comprehension tasks can be …
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Memory and locality in natural language
… language processing cost, called noisy-context surprisal, based on rational inference over noisy memory representations. This model unifies surprisal and memory effects and derives dependency locality effects as a subset of information locality effects. I show that the new processing model also …
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Decoding Neural Processing of Linguistic Features From Large-Scale Intracranial Recordings and Naturalistic Language Stimuli
… different regressors, such as part-of-speech, surprisal, and delta RMS.
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Language-switching cost in Chinese-English bilingual reading comprehension: Evidence from eye-tracking
… cost of language-switching arises more from the surprisal of encountering an unpredicted word, compared with encountering an unexpected language. This study provides more information on how bilinguals coordinate different linguistic information during bilingual language processing and adds to our …
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Characterizing Cortex-Hippocampus Interactions During Language Processing
… cortical language areas are largely driven by surprisal, while hippocampal language areas display preferences towards more imageable and concrete sentences.
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Imaging neural correlates of syntactic complexity in a naturalistic context
… theory. We report here the neural correlates of surprisal (based on contextual predictions), syntactic complexity, structural ambiguity and disambiguation, Theory of Mind and non-local dependencies. This work made use of novel solutions to compute numerical predictions for these linguistic …
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Towards Synergistic Understanding of Language Processing in Biological and Artificial Systems
… with corpus-based estimates of sentence surprisal, which are linked to human comprehension difficulty (e.g., as reflected in reading times). Collectively, these lines of work provide essential ingredients for building a more computationally precise model of language processing in the …
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Text-Picture Integration during Inferential Processing by L1 and L2 English and Chinese Speakers: Individual Differences and Script Effects
… P600 component, which could be due to the larger surprisal effect, or may further support the shared neurological mechanism between P300 and P600. All experiments demonstrated significant effects of individual differences such as language background, verbal and visuo-spatial WM capacity, exposure …