{"pk":32879,"title":"An On-Line Model of Human Sentence Interpretation","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a model of the human sentence interpretation process, concentrating on modeling psycholinguistic data through the use of rich semantic and grammatical knowledge and expectations. The interpreter is an on-line model, in that it reads words left-to-right, maintaining a partial interpretation of the sentence at all times. It is strongly interactionist in using both bottom-up evidence and topdown suggestions to access a set of constructions to be used in building candidate interpretations. It uses a coherencebased selection mechanism to choose among these candidate interpretations, and allows temporary limited parallelism to handle local ambiguities. The interpreter is a unified one, with respect to both representation and process. A single kind of knowledge structure, the grammatical construction, is used to represent lexical, syntactic and semantic knowledge, and a single processing module is used to access and integrate these structures.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Paper Presentations -- Language Understanding","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2gm4h5fc","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Daniel","middle_name":"","last_name":"Jurafsky","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Berkeley","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1991-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/32879/galley/23939/download/"}]}