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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"verb semantics"”.
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System-level attention links cognition, perception and action: Evidence from language comprehension and eye movements
… The effects of two types of words, directional verbs and locational nouns, on two types of eye movements, pursuit and saccades, were explored in nine eye-tracking experiments. Empirical findings suggested that a) eye velocity during pursuit was systematically modulated by verb semantics; …
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Neurocognitive plasticity in verb bias learning in children and adults
Verb-specific preference for syntactic structure (verb bias) is considered as a critical parsing constraint that guides online sentence comprehension. Both adults and preschoolers show great sensitivity to verb bias in their temporary parsing commitment as sentences unfold in time. How do people …
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Acquiring and Harnessing Verb Knowledge for Multilingual Natural Language Processing
… injection, with an emphasis on the category of verbs. To this end, I propose a novel paradigm for efficient acquisition of lexical knowledge leveraging native speakers’ intuitions about verb meaning to support development and downstream performance of NLP models across languages. First, I …
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The event structure of light verbs
… systematically investigates how light verbs contribute to eventstructure across three, typologically different languages: English, Hindi-Urdu, and Korean. I first show that light verbs across the three languages vary in their structural position and function. English light verbs take …