Explaining human performance in psycholinguistic tasks with models of semantic similarity based on prediction and counting: A review and empirical validation

P Mandera, E Keuleers, M Brysbaert - Journal of Memory and Language, 2017 - Elsevier
Recent developments in distributional semantics (Mikolov, Chen, Corrado, & Dean, 2013;
Mikolov, Sutskever, Chen, Corrado, & Dean, 2013) include a new class of prediction-based …

Ordinal common-sense inference

S Zhang, R Rudinger, K Duh… - Transactions of the …, 2017 - direct.mit.edu
Humans have the capacity to draw common-sense inferences from natural language:
various things that are likely but not certain to hold based on established discourse, and are …

[图书][B] Talking the talk: Language, psychology and science

TA Harley - 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
Talking the Talk provides a comprehensive introduction to the psychology of language,
written for the reader with no background in the field or any prior knowledge of psychology …

[HTML][HTML] When the second language takes the lead: Neurocognitive processing changes in the first language of adult attriters

K Kasparian, K Steinhauer - Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Although research on multilingualism has revealed continued neuroplasticity for language-
learning beyond what was previously expected, it remains controversial whether and to what …

Spicy adjectives and nominal donkeys: Capturing semantic deviance using compositionality in distributional spaces

EM Vecchi, M Marelli, R Zamparelli… - Cognitive …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Sophisticated senator and legislative onion. Whether or not you have ever heard of these
things, we all have some intuition that one of them makes much less sense than the other. In …

Theories and approaches to the study of conversation and interactive discourse

WS Horton - The Routledge handbook of discourse processes, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter provides a highly selective overview of scholarly work, focusing primarily upon
several major strands of research that have had—and continue to have—a strong influence …

How gender-expectancy affects the processing of “them”

A Doherty, K Conklin - Quarterly Journal of Experimental …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
How sensitive is pronoun processing to expectancies based on real-world knowledge and
language usage? The current study links research on the integration of gender stereotypes …

Measuring thematic fit with distributional feature overlap

E Santus, E Chersoni, A Lenci, P Blache - arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.05967, 2017 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we introduce a new distributional method for modeling predicate-argument
thematic fit judgments. We use a syntax-based DSM to build a prototypical representation of …

Logical metonymy in a distributional model of sentence comprehension

E Chersoni, A Lenci, P Blache - Sixth Joint Conference on Lexical and …, 2017 - hal.science
In theoretical linguistics, logical metonymy is defined as the combination of an event-
subcategorizing verb with an entity-denoting direct object (eg, The author began the book) …

[图书][B] Meaning in English

J Valenzuela - 2017 - books.google.com
This lively, compact textbook introduces readers to semantics-the study of how we construct
meaning in communication. Easy to follow, and with a clear structure, it explains formal …