Trends in syntactic parsing: Anticipation, Bayesian estimation, and good-enough parsing

摘要

These dependencies affect how comprehenders assign meaning to sentence constituents. Classical approaches to parsing describe it entirely as a bottom-up signal analysis. More recent approaches assign the comprehender a more active role, allowing the comprehender's individual experience, knowledge, and beliefs to influence his or her interpretation. This review describes developments in three related aspects of sentence processing research: anticipatory processing, Bayesianoisy-channel approaches to sentence processing, and the 'good-enough' parsing hypothesis.