The Role of Background Knowledge in Sentence Processing

• The Role of Background Knowledge in Sentence Processing .
• Ambiguity of Language
• Language and Noise
• Insight from this Research
• The Sentence-Processing Model
• Main Contribution
• ACT-R
• Research Methodology
• Evaluation of the Model
• Outline
• The Sentence-Processing Model
• Propositional Representation
• Association & Activation
• Search
• Match
• Match
• Search
• Final Interpretation
• Failures of Comprehension
• Summary of the Model
• Answering True/False Queries
• Outline
• Moses Illusion
• Moses-Illusion Data
• Simulation of Moses Illusion
• Metaphor Comprehension
• Metaphor Position
• Outline
• Sentences in Discourse
• Novel Sentences
• Outline
• Metaphor in Discourse
• Metaphor in Discourse
• Metaphoric Sentences in Context
• Metaphoric Sentences in Context
• Outline
• Computational Constraints
• Scalability Test
• Model Performance
• Summary
• Future Work
• Conclusions