Chunks and the notion of activation : a facilitation model for sentence processing We propose in this paper to integrate the notion of chunk within a global architecture for sentence processing. Chunks play an important role in cognitive theories such as ACT-R cite Anderson04 : they constitute global processing units which can be accessed directly via short or long term memory buffers. Chunks a...

We measure the number of true proportional analogies between chunks in two typologically different languages on a similar corpus: a 20,000 sentence long Japanese-English bicorpus. We verify that at least 96% of analogies of form between chunks are also analogies of meaning. We conclude that analogy ought to be considered as a reliable structuring device between chunks.

Intrinsic plagiarism detection is a sub-task of authorship identification in which outlier chunks must be detected solely on the basis of stylistic differences from the main body of the text. We present a first attempt at utilizing words that appear infrequently in a text as stylistic markers for distinguishing outlier chunks in the text. In the first phase of our method we cluster chunks of te...

Our work carried out as part of the Scriptorium project has confronted us with a variety of problems which shed light on important issues related to corpus architectural design, such as the definition of fine-grained textual units, extraction of relevant subsections of the corpus, and in particular linking techniques enabling , text annotation with arbitrary and at times conflicting meta-data. ...

Data deduplication has become a popular technology for reducing the amount of storage space necessary for backup and archival data. Content defined chunking (CDC) techniques are well established methods of separating a data stream into variable-size chunks such that duplicate content has a good chance of being discovered irrespective of its position in the data stream. Requirements for CDC incl...

When exposed to a regular stimulus field, for instance, that generated by an artificial grammar, subjects unintentionally learn to respond efficiently to the underlying structure (Miller, 1958; Reber 1967). We explored the hypothesis that the learning process is chunking and that grammatical knowledge is implicitly encoded in a hierarchical network of chunks. We trained subjects on exemplar sen...

Short-term verbal memory is improved when words can be chunked into larger units. Miller (1956) suggested that the capacity of short-term determined by number chunks stored in memory, rather than items or amount information. But how does improvement due to chunking come about, and really chunks? One possibility a form data compression. It allows more information available capacity. An alternati...