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Constraints on information processing in language comprehension and production| title | Constraints on information processing in language comprehension and production |
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| start_date | 2023/12/13 |
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| schedule | 17h-18h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | via Zoom |
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| summary | I argue that some major properties of online language processing—both comprehension and production—can be understood in terms of limits on information processing formalized using information theory. On the comprehension side, I present a computational model where an informational bottleneck on memory gives rise to dependency locality effects and detailed crosslinguistic patterns of structural forgetting. On the production side, I present a model where incremental sentence production is constrained by an information bottleneck on cognitive control. Both models lead to a view where statistical prediction, as performed by modern large language models, is a key part of the way language is comprehended and produced. |
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| responsibles | Bernard |
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| submitted | published | | 2023/12/06 16:41 UTC |
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