Mechanisms that yield frequency effects

Lundi 15 Juin 2015, 14:00 to 16:00
Invité: 
John T. Hale (Université de Cornell, invité LabEx)
Organisation: 
LabEx EFL
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Université Paris-Diderot

John T. Hale (Université de Cornell, invité LabEx)
Mechanisms that yield frequency effects

This class applies the automaton-theoretic perspective to frequency effects in language comprehension. The lecture introduces Cognitive Architectures such as Soar, and illustrates a way to embed parsers within them. From this perspective, the applicability of "chunking" as a theory of practice, becomes applicable to language. This offers a mechanistic interpretation of the information-theoretical complexity metric known as surprisal.

Recommended reading: chapters 5, 6 and 8 of Automaton Theories
http://www.amazon.fr/Automaton-Theories-Sentence-Comprehension-Informati...

Rauzy and Blache 2012 http://www.lpl-aix.fr/~fulltext/5139.pdf