A memory-based model of syntactic analysis: data-oriented parsing

This paper presents a memory−based model of human syntactic processing: Data−Oriented Parsing. After a brief introduction (section 1), it argues that any account of disambiguation and many other performance phenomena inevitably has an important memory−based component (section 2). It discusses the limitations of probabilistically enhanced competence−grammars, and argues for a more principled memory−based approach (section 3). In sections 4 and 5, one particular memory−based model is described in some detail: a simple instantiation of the "Data−Oriented Parsing" approach ("DOP1"). Section 6 reports on experimentally established properties of this model, and section 7 compares it with other memory−based techniques. Section 8 concludes and points to future work.