Parsing Model and a Rational Theory of Memory

Jakub Dotlacil; Puck de Haan

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.657705

Parsing Model and a Rational Theory of Memory

Jakub Dotlacil
, Puck de Haan

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This paper explores how the rational theory of memory summarized in Anderson (1991) can inform the computational psycholinguistic models of human parsing. It is shown that transition-based parsing is particularly suitable to be combined with Anderson's theory of memory systems. The combination of the rational theory of memory with the transition-based parsers results in a model of sentence processing that is data-driven and can be embedded in the cognitive architecture Adaptive Control of Thought-Rational (ACT-R). The predictions of the parser are tested against qualitative data (garden-path sentences) and a self-paced reading corpus (the Natural Stories corpus).

Original language	English
Article number	657705
Pages (from-to)	1-17
Journal	Frontiers in Psychology
Volume	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.657705
Publication status	Published - 23 Jun 2021

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The research reported in this paper was supported by the NWO grant VC.GW.17.122.

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© Copyright © 2021 Dotlačil and de Haan.

Keywords

cognitively constrained parsers
computational psycholinguistics
memory retrieval
modeling reading data
rational theory of memory

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