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Varieties of crossing dependencies: structure dependence and mild context sensitivity
Four different kinds of grammars that can define crossing dependencies in human language are compared here: (i) context sensitive rewrite grammars with rules that depend on contex...
Edward P. Stabler Jr.
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Generation and evaluation of user tailored responses in multimodal dialogue
When people engage in conversation, they tailor their utterances to their conversational partners, whether these partners are other humans or computational systems. This tailoring...
Marilyn A. Walker, Steve Whittaker, Amanda Stent, ...
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2004
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Using movement and intentions to understand simple events
In order to understand ongoing activity, observers segment it into meaningful temporal parts. Segmentation can be based on bottom-up processing of distinctive sensory characterist...
Jeffrey M. Zacks
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Moving words: dynamic representations in language comprehension
Eighty-two participants listened to sentences and then judged whether two sequentially presented visual objects were the same. On critical trials, participants heard a sentence de...
Rolf A. Zwaan, Carol J. Madden, Richard H. Yaxley,...
COGSCI
2002
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Memory for goals: an activation-based model
Goal-directed cognition is often discussed in terms of specialized memory structures like the "goal stack." The goal-activation model presented here analyzes goal-direct...
Erik M. Altmann, J. Gregory Trafton