T. Florian Jaeger
Location: (Rochester, NY)
Personal Research Web Page: http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/fjaeger/
Keywords: efficient language processing; information theory; audience design; communicative optimality; uniform information density
Posted on: Thursday, May 21st, 2009
Broad Research Area: Other, Scientific/Medical Informatics
Research Interests:
To what extent is human language production and comprehension organized to be efficient (optimal language processing; rational cognition)? We use psycholinguistic experimentation and statistical modeling to investigate speakers’ choice at various linguistic levels of online language production (e.g. phonetic shortening; contraction; disfluencies; syntactic reduction; inter-clausal planning) and the pressures driving these decisions (Uniform Information Density; availability; audience design). We investigate what cues language users employ when estimating probabilities of words and linguistic structures.
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