In order to gain insight into the nature of human spatial representations, the current study examined how those representations are affected by blind rotation. Evidence was sought that while certain environmental aspects may be updated independently of one another, other aspects may be grouped (or chunked) together and updated as a unit. Participants learned the locations of an array of objects...

There are considerable differences in language processing skill among the normal population. A key question for cognitive science is whether these differences can be ascribed to variations in domain-general cognitive abilities, hypothesized to play a role in language, such as working memory and statistical learning. In this paper, we present experimental evidence pointing to a fundamental memor...

Tokenizing a text into a sequence of words is an important process towards text interpretation. This process is required in many applications such as text summarization, semantic search, and machine translation. Instead of splitting into words, recently there have been works on chunking into units which are larger than words. Text chunking is a process to divide a running text into non-overlapp...

This paper presents systems for syntactic chunking and clause identification for Basque, combining rule-based grammars with machine-learning techniques. Precisely, we used Filtering-Ranking with Perceptrons (Carreras, Màrquez and Castro, 2005): a learning model that recognizes partial syntactic structures in sentences, obtaining state-of-the-art performance for these tasks in English. This mode...

The term chunk, denoting a unit, and the related term chunking, denoting a mechanism to construct that unit, are familiar terms within psychology and cognitive science. The Oxford English Dictionary provides several definitions for “chunk.” First, “a thick, more or less cuboidal, lump, cut off anything,” or, colloquially, “a large or substantial amount.” The Merriam-Webster dictionary provides ...

We introduce an adaptable monolingual chunking approach–AlignmentGuided Chunking (AGC)–which makes use of knowledge of word alignments acquired from bilingual corpora. Our approach is motivated by the observation that a sentence should be chunked differently depending the foreseen end-tasks. For example, given the different requirements of translation into (say) French and German, it is inappro...

When a file is to be transmitted from a sender to a recipient and when the latter already has a file somewhat similar to it, remote differential compression seeks to determine the similarities interactively so as to transmit only the part of the new file not already in the recipient’s old file. Content-dependent chunking means that the sender and recipient chop their files into chunks, with the...