3 papers
cs.CL2026
Algorithmic Consequences of Particle Filters for Sentence Processing: Amplified Garden-Paths and Digging-In Effects
Amani Maina-Kilaas, Roger Levy
Under surprisal theory, linguistic representations affect processing difficulty only through the bottleneck of surprisal. Our best estimates of surprisal come from large language m…
cs.CL2026
Revisiting Real-Time Digging-In Effects: No Evidence from NP/Z Garden-Paths
Amani Maina-Kilaas, Roger Levy
Digging-in effects, where disambiguation difficulty increases with longer ambiguous regions, have been cited as evidence for self-organized sentence processing, in which structural…
cs.CL2024
Learning Phonotactics from Linguistic Informants
Canaan Breiss, Alexis Ross, Amani Maina-Kilaas +2
We propose an interactive approach to language learning that utilizes linguistic acceptability judgments from an informant (a competent language user) to learn a grammar. Given a g…