The average predictability (aka informativity) of a word in context has been shown to condition duration (Seyfarth, 2014). All else being equal, words that tend occur more predictable environments are shorter than less environments. One account the informativity effect on is acoustic details probabilistic reduction stored as part word's mental representation. Other research argued effects tied ...

Multi Sentence Compression (MSC) is of great value to many real world applications, such as guided microblog summarization, opinion summarization and newswire summarization. Recently, word graph-based approaches have been proposed and become popular in MSC. Their key assumption is that redundancy among a set of related sentences provides a reliable way to generate informative and grammatical se...

Article history: Received 25 October 2013 Available online 13 March 2014

The amount of information attached to a noun phrase (henceforth, NP) has been shown to enhance accessibility and increase pronominal reference in language production. However, both the effect of information quantity on the comprehension of ambiguous pronouns and the time course of any informativity effect have been left unexplored. In two eyetracking experiments, we investigated how additional ...

In this brief note, I discuss how basic is, in natural language, the distinction between an assertion and a question. The question is currently debated within inquisitive semantics [14]; [1];[2]) and in addressing it, I look at sentences with modal verbs, questions, and disjunctions. These seem to form a natural class in terms of conveying epistemic states that allow p and ¬p, they are therefor...

BACKGROUND Sensitive and accurate methods to detect hematopoietic chimerism after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) are essential to evaluate engraftment and to monitor response to therapeutic procedures such as donor lymphocyte infusion. Continuous long-term follow up, however, requires large amounts of pre-HSCT samples limiting the application of many widely used techniques for s...

In the Prediction Error identification framework, it is crucial that collected data are informative with respect to chosen model structure get a consistent estimate. this work, we focus on informativity property for of multi-inputs single-output ARX systems in closed-loop and derive necessary sufficient condition verify if given multisine external excitation combined feedback introduced by cont...