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Open AccessExploring automatic text-to-sign translation in a healthcare setting
Communication between healthcare professionals and deaf patients has been particularly challenging during the COVID-19 pandemic. We have explored the possibility to automatically translate phrases that are fre...
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Open AccessIgnorance implicatures of modified numerals
Modified numerals, such as at least three and more than five, are known to sometimes give rise to ignorance inferences. However, there is disagreement in the literature regarding the nature of these inferences, t...
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Book
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Future Directions
Where do we go from here? We will keep this short because, if the reader has made it this far, the answer really is: in whatever direction the reader’s research interests lie.
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Introduction
In this brief chapter, we summarize the background knowledge needed to be able to work through the book (Sect. 1.1). After that, we provide an overview of the remainder of the book (Sect. 1.2).
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The Basics of Syntactic Parsing in ACT-R
In this chapter, we introduce the basics of syntactic parsing in ACT-R. We build a top-down parser and learn how we can extract intermediate stages of pyactr simulations. This enables us to inspect detailed snaps...
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Semantics as a Cognitive Process II: Active Search for Cataphora Antecedents and the Semantics of Conditionals
In this chapter, we generalize our eager left-corner incremental interpreter to cover conditionals and conjunctions. We focus on the (dynamic) semantic contrast between conditionals and conjunctions because th...
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The ACT-R Cognitive Architecture and Its pyactr Implementation
In this chapter, we introduce the ACT-R cognitive architecture and the Python3 implementation pyactr we use throughout the book. We end with a basic ACT-R model for subject-verb agreement.
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Syntax as a Cognitive Process: Left-Corner Parsing with Visual and Motor Interfaces
In the previous chapters, we introduced and used several ACT-R modules and buffers: the declarative memory module and the associated retrieval buffer, the procedural memory module and the associated goal buffe...
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Modeling Linguistic Performance
The goal of ACT-R is to provide accurate cognitive models of learning and performance, as well as accurate neural map**s of cognitive activities. In this chapter, we introduce the ‘subsymbolic’ declarative m...
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Semantics as a Cognitive Process I: Discourse Representation Structures in Declarative Memory
In this chapter, we introduce our assumptions about semantic representations and build a semantic processor, that is, a basic parser able to incrementally construct such semantic representations. Our choice fo...
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Brief Introduction to Bayesian Methods and pymc3 for Linguists
In this chapter, we introduce the basics of Bayesian statistical modeling. Bayesian methods are not specific to ACT-R, or to cognitive modeling. They are a general framework for doing plausible inference based...
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Competence-Performance Models for Lexical Access and Syntactic Parsing
In Chap. 4, we introduced a simple lexical decision task and a simple left-corner parser. The models we introduced in that chapter might be sufficient with respect to the way they simulate interactions with th...
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Cumulative Comparison: Experimental Evidence for Degree Cumulation
In this paper we address the question whether it makes sense to assume that the domain of degrees, as used in degree semantics, consists not just of atoms, but also of degree pluralities. A number of recent works...
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Open AccessThe comparative and degree pluralities
Quantifiers in phrasal and clausal comparatives often seem to take distributive scope in the matrix clause: for instance, the sentence John is taller than every girl is is true iff for every girl it holds that Jo...
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Strategies for scope taking
This squib reports the results of two experimental studies, a binary choice and a self-paced reading study, that provide strong support for the hypothesis in Tunstall (PhD thesis, 1998) that the distinct scopal p...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Licensing Sentence-Internal Readings in English
Adjectives of comparison (AOCs) like same, different and similar can compare two elements sentence-internally, i.e., without referring to any previously introduced element. This reading is licensed only if a sema...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Distributivity in Reciprocal Sentences
In virtually every semantic account of reciprocity it is assumed that reciprocal sentences are distributive. However, it turns out that the distributivity must be of very local nature since it shows no effect ...
