no code implementations • 17 May 2019 • Meilin Zhan, Roger Levy
When the upcoming noun is less predictable, the use of a more specific classifier would reduce surprisal at the noun thus potentially facilitate comprehension (predicted by Uniform Information Density, Levy & Jaeger, 2007), but the use of that more specific classifier may be dispreferred from a production standpoint if accessing the general classifier is always available (predicted by Availability-Based Production; Bock, 1987; Ferreira & Dell, 2000).
no code implementations • NAACL 2018 • Meilin Zhan, Roger Levy
Speakers often have more than one way to express the same meaning.
