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    "pk": 27432,
    "title": "The Interaction of Bayesian Pragmatics and Lexical Semantics in Linguistic\nInterpretation: Using Event-related Potentials to Investigate Hearers’ Probabilistic\nPredictions",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "We contrast two views of how contextual influence on sentence meaning\ncomposition can be explained. The Semantic Similarity View maintains\nthat discourse context affects sentence meaning mainly because of the\nsemantic similarity between the words in the discourse context and the\nwords in the sentence (as measured by Latent Semantic Analysis). The Free\nPragmatic View, in contrast, defends the claim that also pragmatic aspects\nof the discourse context can affect sentence meaning composition. This\neffect can be quantitatively modelled by Bayesian Pragmatics. We\nintroduce a Predictive Completion Task in which the hearer at every\nmoment in a communicative situation has to generate a probabilistic\nprediction about how a discourse being uttered by the speaker is continued.\nWe test the predictions of the two views in EEG using the well-established\nobservation that the conditional probability of a word given a context is\nnegatively correlated with the amplitude of its N400 component.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Latent Semantic Analysis"
        },
        {
            "word": "Bayesian Pragmatics"
        },
        {
            "word": "N400"
        },
        {
            "word": "Generative Lexicon"
        },
        {
            "word": "Telicity"
        },
        {
            "word": "Affordances"
        },
        {
            "word": "Context"
        },
        {
            "word": "Predictive\nCoding"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Posters: Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4227h0q0",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Markus",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Werning",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Ruhr University Bochum",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Erica",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Cosentino",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Ruhr University Bochum",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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