Evan Jaffe

2 accepted papers

2021

Coreference-aware Surprisal Predicts Brain Response

Evan Jaffe, Byung-Doh Oh, William Schuler

EMNLP 2021finding

Recent evidence supports a role for coreference processing in guiding human expectations about upcoming words during reading, based on covariation between reading times and word surprisal estimated by a coreference-aware semantic processing model (Jaffe et al. 2020).The present study reproduces and…

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2020

Coreference information guides human expectations during natural reading

Evan Jaffe, Cory Shain, William Schuler

COLING 2020main

Models of human sentence processing effort tend to focus on costs associated with retrieving structures and discourse referents from memory (memory-based) and/or on costs associated with anticipating upcoming words and structures based on contextual cues (expectation-based) (Levy,2008). Although evi…

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