Two visual world eye-tracking studies investigated the effect of emotions and actions on sentence processing. Positively emotionally valenced German non-canonical object-verb-subject (OVS) sentences were paired with a scene depicting three characters (agent-patient-distractor) as either performing the action described by the sentence, or not performing any actions. These scene-sentence pairs we...

Extractive summarizing can be divided into several steps. Preprocessing is a first of them and it usually includes: sentence splitting, stop words removal, stemming etc. In processing step, sentence features are calculated and then weights are assigned to these features using machine learning or heuristic methods. Those features are numerical characteristics of each sentence (e.g. sentence loca...

PURPOSE We asked whether sentence repetition accuracy could be explained by interactions of participant processing limitations with the structures of the sentences. We also tested a prediction of the procedural deficit hypothesis (Ullman & Pierpont, 2005) that adjuncts are more difficult than arguments for individuals with developmental language impairment (DLI). METHOD Forty-four young adult...

The hypothesized role of Broca's area in sentence processing ranges from domain-general executive function to domain-specific computation that is specific to certain syntactic structures. We examined this issue by manipulating syntactic structure and conflict between syntactic and semantic cues in a sentence processing task. Functional neuroimaging revealed that activation within several Broca'...

The distinction between syntax (sentence form) and semantics (sentence meaning) is fundamental to our thinking about language. Whether and where this distinction is represented at the neural level is still a matter of considerable debate. In the present fMRI study, we examined the neural correlates of syntactic and semantic functions using an innovative activation paradigm specifically designed...

The role of Broca's area in sentence processing has been debated for the last 30 years. A central and still unresolved issue is whether Broca's area plays a specific role in some aspect of syntactic processing (e.g., syntactic movement, hierarchical structure building) or whether it serves a more general function on which sentence processing relies (e.g., working memory). This review examines t...

Models of human sentence processing have paid much attention to three key characteristics of the sentence processor: Its robust and accurate processing of unseen input (wide coverage), its immediate, incremental interpretation of partial input and its sensitivity to structural frequencies in previous language experience. In this thesis, we propose a model of human sentence processing that accou...

a bilingual corpus is considered as a very important knowledge source and an inevitable requirement for many natural language processing (nlp) applications in which two languages are involved. for some languages such as persian, lack of such resources is much more significant. several applications, including statistical and example-based machine translation needs bilingual corpora, in which lar...