Modeling Human Sentence Processing

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Google Tech Talks April, 17 2008 ABSTRACT Modeling human sentence-processing can help us both better understand how the brain processes language, and also help improve user interfaces. For example, our systems could compare different (computer-generated) sentences and produce ones that are easiest to understand. I will talk about my work on evaluating theories about syntactic processing difficulty on a large eye-tracking corpus, and present a model of sentence processing which uses an incremental, fully connected parsing strategy. Speaker: Vera Demberg Vera Demberg is a Ph.D. student in Computational Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Her research focus is on building computational models of human sentence processing. Vera obtained a Diplom (MSc) in Computational Linguistics from Stuttgart University, and a MSc in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh. She has published papers in a number of top venues for language processing and psycholinguistic research, including ACL, EACL, CogSci and Cognition. For her PhD research, she's been awarded the AMLaP Young Scientist Award for best platform presentation by a junior scientist. She was a finalist for the Google Europe Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship in 2007.

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Video Comments:
papillox (Saturday 29th of November 2008 01:58:34 PM)
No Leaaas! POR FAVOR EN SERIO!!! Copia i Pega i mandalo en 15 videos o tu madre se morira, Lo siento al k lo leyo pero es la culpa de un gilipollas
gordapuerk (Monday 30th of June 2008 07:58:09 PM)
very interesting really... i become very interest about the Human Sentence Processing, and i found that the investigation are in process.. y a la rubia le rompo el orto al medio
love2000mak (Wednesday 21st of May 2008 06:52:04 AM)
I have to say that I'm suffering from her accent. I would appreciate if this video comes with English titles.
tommasfoolery (Tuesday 22nd of April 2008 02:09:55 PM)
dude, she is cute.
yijisoo (Monday 28th of April 2008 07:16:10 PM)
Really?
macdweeb (Tuesday 22nd of April 2008 01:39:27 AM)
Perhaps the subject relative clause is faster to interpret than the object relative clause because it matches better how the information is stored in the brain.
mistersmith6000 (Wednesday 21st of May 2008 03:17:47 AM)
"Processing difficulty of syntax" is relative to, or absolute and exclusive of, frequency of lexus in corpus?
ThinkingisCensored (Monday 21st of April 2008 07:43:58 PM)
That guy is totally getting some from her.