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    "pk": 28176,
    "title": "Modeling garden path effects without explicit hierarchical syntax",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "The disambiguation of syntactically ambiguous sentences canlead to reading difficulty, often referred to as a garden path ef-fect. The surprisal hypothesis suggests that this difficulty canbe accounted for using word predictability. We tested this hy-pothesis using predictability estimates derived from two fam-ilies of language models: grammar-based models, which ex-plicitly encode the syntax of the language; and recurrent neuralnetwork (RNN) models, which do not. Both classes of mod-els correctly predicted increased difficulty in ambiguous sen-tences compared to controls, suggesting that the syntactic rep-resentations induced by RNNs are sufficient for this purpose.At the same time, surprisal estimates derived from all mod-els systematically underestimated the magnitude of the effect,and failed to predict the difference between easier (NP/S) andharder (NP/Z) ambiguities. This suggests that it may not bepossible to reduce garden path effects to predictability",
    "language": "eng",
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        "short_name": "",
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    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "self-paced reading; garden path; neural networks"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Publication-based-Talks",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7mg5442r",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Marten",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "van Schijndel",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "John Hopkins",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Tal",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Linzen",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "John Hopkins",
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        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2018-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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