{"pk":27104,"title":"Fast and Easy: Approximating Uniform Information Density in LanguageProduction","subtitle":null,"abstract":"A model of sentence production is presented, which imple-ments a strategy that produces sentences with more uniformsurprisal profiles, as compared to other strategies, and in accor-dance to the Uniform Information Density Hypothesis (Jaeger,2006; Levy & Jaeger, 2007). The model operates at the al-gorithmic level combining information concerning word prob-abilities and sentence lengths, representing a first attempt tomodel UID as resulting from underlying factors during lan-guage production. The sentences produced by this modelshowed indeed the expected tendency, having more uniformsurprisal profiles and lower average word surprisal, in compar-ison to other production strategies.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"information density; sentence production; rationalanalysis; connectionist; semantics"}],"section":"Posters: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5s069317","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Jes  ́us","middle_name":"","last_name":"Calvillo","name_suffix":"","institution":"Saarland University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27104/galley/16740/download/"}]}