Card-handling using hypertext editor can be a powerful methodology for generation of ideas or understanding of complex problems. To support such activity, recognizing implicit structure in the arrangement of cards would be useful. But, because the structures to be recognized are by nature ambiguous and highly dependent on user-speci c perception, it is di cult for conventional rule-based spatia...

This study reports results from a sentence completion task and a self-paced reading experiment examining relative clause (RC) attachment preferences in native speakers of Greek. To determine the role of lexical-semantic as well as referential context information for RC attachment, we examined two constructions under different context conditions: RCs preceded by complex noun phrases with genitiv...

This article relates results in data-driven dependency parsing of Swedish to linguistic generalizations regarding syntactic argument status, such as tendencies regarding animacy and definiteness, as well as properties more specific to the Scandinavian languages, such as finiteness. We show how datadriven modeling in combination with labeled dependency representations enable the acquisition of f...

This paper presents results from a self-paced reading experiment in Japanese investigating attachment preferences for relative clauses to three ensuing potential nominal heads. Similar to previous results from the processing of English, Spanish and German, we observed the following non-monotonic preference ordering among the three attachment sites: most local, least local, intermediate. We disc...

Can world knowledge modulate on-line parsing preferences? This was investigated in two off-line experiments and an online reading study. World knowledge was manipulated through the discourse context. More specifically, it concerned the mental representation that readers build up of the state of affairs described by the text. The results showed that this “contextual knowledge” immediately influe...

This paper describes a new, psychologically-plausible model of human sentence interpretation, based on a new model of linguistic structure, Construction Grammar. This on-line, parallel, probabilistic interpreter accounts for a wide variety of psycholinguistic results on lexical access, idiom processing, parsing preferences, and studies of gap-filling and other valence ambiguities, including var...

Traditional accounts of quantifier scope employ qualitative constraints or rules to account for scoping preferences. This paper outlines a feature-based parsing algorithm for a grammar with multiple simultaneous levels of representation, one of which corresponds to a partial ordering among quantifiers according to scope. The optimal such ordering (as well as the ranking of other orderings) is d...