4 papers
A Psycholinguistically Motivated Parser for CCG
Michael Niv
Considering the speed in which humans resolve syntactic ambiguity, and the overwhelming evidence that syntactic ambiguity is resolved through selection of the analysis whose interp…
The complexity of normal form rewrite sequences for Associativity
Michael Niv
The complexity of a particular term-rewrite system is considered: the rule of associativity (x*y)*z --> x*(y*z). Algorithms and exact calculations are given for the longest and sho…
A Computational Model of Syntactic Processing: Ambiguity Resolution from Interpretation
Michael Niv
Syntactic ambiguity abounds in natural language, yet humans have no difficulty coping with it. In fact, the process of ambiguity resolution is almost always unconscious. But it is…
Resolution of Syntactic Ambiguity: the Case of New Subjects
Michael Niv
I review evidence for the claim that syntactic ambiguities are resolved on the basis of the meaning of the competing analyses, not their structure. I identify a collection of ambig…