We conducted a visual world eye-tracking experiment with highly proficient Spanish-English bilingual adults to investigate the effects of relative language dominance, operationalized as a continuous, multidimensional variable, on the time course of r...
Objectives: Although behavioral studies suggest that syntactic comprehension is relatively preserved in healthy aging, the underlying neural mechanisms remain a subject of intense debate. This review aims to synthesize neuroimaging and electrophysiol...
In the era of digitalization, the interaction between humans and machines, particularly in Natural Language Processing, has gained crucial importance. This study focuses on improving the effectiveness and accuracy of chatbots based on Natural Languag...
This paper investigates the interaction between lexicosemantic and syntactic information in sentence processing by examining the online comprehension of Spanish relative clauses (RCs) of both restrictive and non-restrictive types. A corpus study show...
According to the Unaccusative Hypothesis, intransitive verbs are divided into unaccusative and unergative ones based on the distinction of their syntactic properties, which has been proved by previous theoretical and empirical evidence. However, deba...
Metal matrix syntactic foams (MMSFs) are advanced lightweight materials constituted by a metallic matrix and a dispersion of hollow/porous fillers. Physical and mechanical properties can be fitted regarding matrix and filler properties and processing...
Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) have a psycholinguistic profile evincing multiple syntactic processing impairments. Spanish-speaking children with DLD struggle with gender agreement on clitics; however, the existing evidence comes...
This study investigates syntactic parafoveal processing in Chinese reading using a boundary paradigm with two-character verb–object phrases. Participants (N = 120 undergraduates) viewed sentences with manipulated previews (identity, syntactical...
Rhythmic syntax forms the temporal structural framework essential for musical meaning and emotion. While crucial for music perception, how rhythmic syntax is processed without direct attentional focus remains unknown. Using EEG, we examined this proc...
Garden-path sentences generate processing difficulty due to a more preferred parse conflicting with incoming parsing information. A domain-general cognitive control mechanism has been argued to help identify and resolve these parsing conflicts. This...
There is a discrepancy between professional subtitling guidelines and how they are implemented in real life. One example of such discrepancy are line breaks: the way the text is divided between the two lines in a subtitl...
Previous research has shown that comprehension of complex sentences involving wh-movement (e.g., object-relative clauses) elicits activation in the left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) and left posterior temporal cortex. However, relatively little is kn...
With the advent of pre-trained language models, many natural language processing tasks in various languages have achieved great success. Although some research has been conducted on fine-tuning BERT-based models for syntactic parsing, and several Ara...
The aim of this contribution is to highlight the role and relevance of neurolinguistics accounts for second and third language syntactic acquisition/processing. This chapter begins with a brief historical overview of the field of experimental psychol...
Ease of cognitive processing is an important predictor of aesthetic liking. However, many acclaimed artworks are fairly complex and require substantial cognitive effort. Are they aesthetically liked despite or because of this increased cognitive chal...
Syntactic adaptation effects have been demonstrated for an expanding list of structure types, but the mechanism underlying this effect is still being explored. In the current work on filler-gap dependency processing, we examined whether exposing part...
(1) Background: Aspect-based sentiment analysis (SA) is a natural language processing task, the aim of which is to classify the sentiment associated with a specific aspect of a written text. The performance of SA methods applied to texts related to h...
The processing and resolution of syntactically ambiguous structures is accounted for by serial autonomous and multiple constraint satisfaction models differently. We investigated the extent to which frequency affects native speakers’ processing...
Business and science are using sentiment analysis to extract and assess subjective information from the web, social media, and other sources using NLP, computational linguistics, text analysis, image processing, audio processing, and video processing...
With the growth of large language models (LLMs), there are increasing calls to interpret their behavior through the prism of analogies to human cognitive mechanisms. At the same time, scientific literature points to the fundamental limitations of the...
Metal matrix syntactic foams (MMSF) are foam composites obtained by filling hollow and/or porous particles into a metal matrix. MMSF are promising materials in defense, aerospace, automotive, marine and engineering applications. Mechanical and physic...
A solution casting approach is used to create hollow glass microsphere (HGM)-filled epoxy–syntactic foam composites (e–SFCs) by varying the concentrations of HGM in epoxy according to different particle sizes. Density analysis is used to...
In this study, aluminum (Al) chip matrix-based synthetic foams were fabricated by hot pressing at a semi-solid (SS) temperature. The densities of the foams ranged from 2.3 to 2.63 g/cm3, confirming that the density decreased with increasing glass hol...
Electronic medical records (EMRs) include many valuable data about patients, which is, however, unstructured. Therefore, there is a lack of both labeled medical text data in Russian and tools for automatic annotation. As a result, today, it is hardly...
The Radical Unacceptability Hypothesis (RUH) has been proposed as a way of explaining the unacceptability of extraction from islands and frozen structures. This hypothesis explicitly assumes a distinction between unacceptability due to violations of...
This study presents the first systematic empirical comparison of neural architectures for Universal Dependencies (UD) parsing in Old English, thus addressing central questions in computational historical linguistics and low-resource language processi...
The Categorical Compositional Distributional (DisCoCat) model has been proven to be very successful in modelling sentence meaning as the interaction of word meanings. Words are modelled as quantum states, interacting guided by grammar. This model of...
The automatic construction of learners’ dictionaries requires robust methods for identifying non-literal word combinations, or collocations, which represent a significant challenge for second-language (L2) learners. This paper addresses the cri...
It is widely agreed that prosodic constituents should mirror syntactic constituents (unless high-ranking prosodic constraints interfere). Because recursion is a feature of syntactic representations, one expects recursion in prosodic representations a...
In this article, we address the question of whether exposure to the translated output of MT systems could result in changes in the cognitive processing of English as a second language (L2 English). To answer this question, we first conducted a survey...
Syntactic adaptation is the phenomenon whereby exposure to particular syntactic structures influences subsequent language processing and production [...]
Info-autopoiesis or the self-referenced, recursive, interactive process of information self-production that engages all living beings in their efforts to satisfy their physiological and/or relational needs relies on Bateson’s difference which m...
Understanding the way people watch subtitled films has become a central concern for subtitling researchers in recent years. Both subtitling scholars and professionals generally believe that in order to reduce cognitive load and enhance readability, l...
The present study investigates the mechanical performance of syntactic foams produced by means of the metal powder injection molding process having an Invar (FeNi36) matrix and including cenospheres as hollow particles at weight fractions (wt.%) of 5...
The rapid development of information technology has made the amount of information in massive texts far exceed human intuitive cognition, and dependency parsing can effectively deal with information overload. In the background of domain specializatio...
According to the shallow structure hypothesis (SSH), adult L2 learners rely more on lexical-semantic and pragmatic information but less so on syntactic information in online language processing, ending up with shallower syntactic representation. To t...
This study used online and offline tasks to examine whether proficient Korean learners of Chinese can analyze the syntactic structure of separable verbs in a native-like manner during real-time processing. Separable verbs are considered a unique gram...
The linguistic system relies on both syntactic and semantic cues to derive the meaning of sentences. Although this process is shaped by cognitive factors, little is known about how mood influences reliance on these cues and whether such effects are m...
In oral language, syntactic structure is cued in part by phrasal metrical hierarchies of acoustic stress patterns. For example, many children’s texts use prosodic phrasing comprising tightly integrated hierarchies of metre and syntax to highlig...
In pursuing the mapping between syntax and phonology/prosody, little attention has been paid to the kinds of syntactic information that can affect prosody. In this paper, we explore Japanese downstep, a process in phrasal phonology. What syntactic in...
Relative clause (RC) formation and center embedding (CE) are two primary syntactic operations fundamental for creating and understanding complex sentences. Ample evidence from previous cross-linguistic studies has revealed several similarities and di...
Paraphrase generation is an important yet challenging task in natural language processing. Neural network-based approaches have achieved remarkable success in sequence-to-sequence learning. Previous paraphrase generation work generally ignores syntac...
Aspect-level sentiment classification (ALSC) struggles with correctly trapping the aspects and corresponding sentiment polarity of a statement. Recently, several works have combined the syntactic structure and semantic information of sentences for mo...
This article examines the nature of musical stimuli used in eye-movement research on music reading, with a focus on syntactic elements essential for fluent reading: melody, rhythm, and harmony. Drawing parallels between language and music as syntacti...
As a lightweight and highly insulating composite material, epoxy resin syntactic foam is increasingly widely used for insulation filling in electrical equipment. To avoid core burning and cracking, which are prone to occur during the casting process,...
As one of the prominent research directions in the field of natural language processing (NLP), short-text similarity has been widely used in search recommendation and question-and-answer systems. Most of the existing short textual similarity models f...
This study is a follow-up to Pynte, New and Kennedy (2008), Journal of Eye Movement Research. 2(1):4, 1–11. A new series of multiple regression analyses were conducted on the French part of the Dundee corpus, using a new set of syntactic and semantic...
Sentence comprehension requires inferring, from a sequence of words, the structure of syntactic relationships that bind these words into a semantic representation. Our limited ability to build some specific syntactic structures, such as nested center...
The domain of Aspect Level Sentiment Classification, in which the sentiment toward a given aspect is analyzed, attracts much attention in NLP. Recently, the state-of-the-art Aspect Level Sentiment Classification methods are devised by using the Graph...
Text-to-SQL is a task that converts natural language questions into SQL queries. Recent text-to-SQL models employ two decoding methods: sketch-based and generation-based, but each has its own shortcomings. The sketch-based method has limitations in p...
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