Top Down Parsing

It is well known that even extremely limited center- embedding causes people to have difficulty ill comprehen- sion, but that left- and right-branching constractions pro- duce no such effect. If …...

A new chart-based technique for parsing ill-formed input is proposed. This can process sentences with unknown/misspelled words, omitted words or extraneous words. This generalized parsing strategy is, similar to Mellish's, …...

AbstractEvidence from psycholinguistic studies suggests that the human brain builds a hierarchical syntactic structure during language comprehension. However, it is still unknown whether the neural basis of such structures is …...