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    "pk": 28919,
    "title": "Bayesian Pragmatics Provides the Best Quantitative Model of Context Effects on\nWord Meaning in EEG and Cloze Data",
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    "abstract": "We contrast three views of how words contribute to a listener’s\nunderstanding of a sentence and compare corresponding\nquantitative models of how the listener’s probabilistic prediction on\nsentence completion is affected in online comprehension. The\nSemantic Similarity Model presupposes that the predictor of a word\ngiven a preceding discourse is their semantic similarity. The\nRelevance Model maintains that utterances are chosen to maximize\nrelevance. The Bayesian Pragmatic Model assumes a relevance-\nguided modulation of a word’s lexical meaning that can be regarded\nas a Bayesian update of statistical regularities stored in memory. In\naddition to a Cloze test, we perform an EEG study, recording the\nevent-related potential on the predicted word and take the N400\ncomponent to be inversely correlated with the word’s predictive\nprobability. In a multiple regression analysis, we compare the three\nmodels with regard to Cloze values and N400 amplitudes. The\nBayesian Pragmatic Model best explains the data.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Bayesian Pragmatics"
        },
        {
            "word": "EEG"
        },
        {
            "word": "N400"
        },
        {
            "word": "Cloze Test"
        },
        {
            "word": "Semantic\nSimilarity"
        },
        {
            "word": "Relevance"
        },
        {
            "word": "Generative Lexicon"
        },
        {
            "word": "Probabilistic Prediction"
        },
        {
            "word": "Online Comprehension"
        },
        {
            "word": "modulation"
        },
        {
            "word": "Predictive Completion Task"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers with Poster Presentations",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8mk6t8p9",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Markus",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Werning",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Ruhr University Bochum",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Matthias",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Unterhuber",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Ruhr University Bochum",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Gregor",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Wiedemann",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Hamburg",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2019-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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