Summary: Chunks and Dependencies
and Human Sentence Processing
Steven Abney
University of T¨ubingen
What are Chunks
· Introspection about sentence processing in reading
the old man in the park was feeding the pigeons
the old man[ ] in the park[ ] was feeding[ ] the pigeons[ ]
· Not constituents
the
old man
N'
S
NP
N'
in the park
PP
was
feeding
VP

Source: Abney, Steven P. - School of Information, University of Michigan

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences