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Antecedent (grammar)
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31 Aug 2017
TL;DR: The results are compatible with pointer-based approaches while casting doubt on the notion that changes antecedent complexity lead to measurable differences in ellipsis processing speed.
Abstract: In two self-paced reading experiments, we investigated the effect of changes in antecedent complexity on processing times for ellipsis. Pointer- or “sharing”-based approaches to ellipsis processing (Frazier & Clifton 2001, 2005; Martin & McElree 2008) predict no effect of antecedent complexity on reading times at the ellipsis site while other accounts predict increased antecedent complexity to either slow down processing (Murphy 1985) or to speed it up (Hofmeister 2011). Experiment 1 manipulated antecedent complexity and elision, yielding evidence against a speedup at the ellipsis site and in favor of a null effect. In order to investigate possible superficial processing on part of participants, Experiment 2 manipulated the amount of attention required to correctly respond to end-of-sentence comprehension probes, yielding evidence against a complexity-induced slowdown at the ellipsis site. Overall, our results are compatible with pointer-based approaches while casting doubt on the notion that changes antecedent complexity lead to measurable differences in ellipsis processing speed.
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01 Jan 1984
TL;DR: The first recorded reference to calendering appears to be a description, in an 18th century publication, of a smoothing treatment for textile fabrics, carried out by means of individually operated, weighted rolls as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: According to Griffin1 the word ‘calender’shares a common Greek antecedent with ‘roller’, and the first recorded reference to calendering appears to be a description, in an 18th century publication, of a smoothing treatment for textile fabrics, carried out by means of individually operated, weighted rolls. The multi-roll machine of the general type still represented by the modern calender, was developed for the processing of rubber around the mid-1800s.
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01 Jan 2015
TL;DR: This is a survey for anaphora resolution using different approaches and their good selection of feature for noun phrases.
Abstract: A huge numbers of feature words appear as noun phrases in review sentences are referenced by anaphoric pronouns present in the review document. Anaphora resolution is a rich source of natural language processing (NLP) task that contains of determining which mentions in a discourse refer to the same entity or event. These are consists of noun phrases (NP), named entities (NEs), embedded nouns, and pronouns. It challenges to decide noun phrase coreference, anaphora and their associating relations. It has implemented some of the stateof-the-art approaches in the area of machine learning approaches to anaphora resolution, particularly the position and the joint anaphor identification with the antecedent selection. This is a survey for anaphora resolution using different approaches and their good selection of feature for noun phrases.
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TL;DR: This paper showed that the echoicity of a verbal response crucially depends on the speech act of the antecedent, and that the use of echoic responses is more likely for antecedents in which the speaker displays a low degree of commitment to the truth of the utterance than for those with a high degree of committed utterance.
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TL;DR: The authors showed that the antecedent search is active and persistent in English and Norwegian, and that the parser should iteratively search later positions until the predicted element is found, even if a prediction is disconfirmed in an earlier position.
Abstract: Cataphors precede their antecedents, so they cannot be fully interpreted until those antecedents are encountered. Some researchers propose that cataphors trigger an active search during incremental processing in which the parser predictively posits potential antecedents in upcoming syntactic positions (Kazanina et al., Journal of Memory and Language, 56[3], 384–409, 2007). One characteristic of active search is that it is persistent: If a prediction is disconfirmed in an earlier position, the parser should iteratively search later positions until the predicted element is found. Previous research has assumed, but not established, that antecedent search is persistent. In four experiments in English and Norwegian, we test this hypothesis. Two sentence completion experiments show a strong off-line preference for coreference between a fronted cataphor and the first available argument position (the main subject). When the main subject cannot be the antecedent, participants posit the antecedent in the next closest position: object position. Two self-paced reading studies demonstrate that comprehenders actively expect the antecedent of a fronted cataphor to appear in the main clause subject position, and then successively in object position if the subject does not match the cataphor in gender. Our results therefore support the claim that antecedent search is active and persistent.
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