The role of thematic structures in interpretation and parsing.
The role of thematic structures in interpretation and parsing.
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主题结构在解释和解析中的作用。
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1989
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J. Trueswell
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M. Tanenhaus;G. Carlson;J. Trueswell
摘要 本文探讨了与动词相关的主题角色信息如何在语言处理中使用。我们认为主题角色对于协调语言处理中不同类型的信息很有用，因为它们代表了直接映射到句法形式的概念/语义表示的各个方面。我们回顾了最近一些研究，调查了主题信息在句法歧义解决中的使用，并提出了一些新的证据，表明主题信息可用于完全消除通常与减少关系从句相关的花园路径。然后，我们回顾了我们最近研究处理具有长距离依赖性的句子中的词汇结构的一些工作，并得出结论，主题结构指导了这些句子的初步解释。最后，我们讨论了主题信息如何使处理系统能够做出考虑到话语上下文相关方面的早期语义承诺。
Abstract This paper explores how thematic role information associated with verbs is used in language processing. We suggest that thematic roles are useful for co-ordinating different types of information in language processing because they represent aspects of conceptual/semantic representation that map directly on to syntactic form. We review some recent studies investigating the use of thematic information in syntactic ambiguity resolution and present some new evidence that thematic information can be used to eliminate completely the garden path typically associated with reduced-relative clauses. We then review some of our recent work investigating lexical structure in the processing of sentences with long-distance dependencies, and conclude that thematic structure guides the initial interpretation of these sentences. We conclude with a discussion about how thematic information might enable the processing system to make early semantic commitments that take into account relevant aspects of discourse context.