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LSA.313 | Sentence Comprehension

Edward Gibson
MW 1:00-2:40
location: 32-D461
course web site: http://lsa.dlp.mit.edu/Class/313

Research in sentence comprehension attempts to discover what representations are used when people understand sentences, and how these representations are arrived at during the course of understanding a sentence. Recent results have suggested that constructing an interpretation for a sentence involves the moment-by-moment integration of a variety of different information sources, such as the lexicon, syntax, plausibility, intonation and context. These information sources interact with the available computational resources to provide constraints on the permissible interpretation(s) for a string of incoming words in determining the final interpretation. In this course we will survey current evidence for some of these constraints and we will discuss recently proposed sentence comprehension models.