world knowledge

There is now a well-established literature showing that people anticipate upcoming concepts and words during language processing. …

Complement coercion (begin a book → reading) involves a type clash between an event-selecting verb and an entity-denoting object, …

Habitual knowledge of everyday activities (e.g. going to a restaurant) plays a key role in our interaction with the environment and in …

We aim to model the results from a self-paced reading experiment, which tested the effect of semantic type clash and typicality on the …

During language understanding, people do not only rely on what they read or hear, but they also exploit implicit information. For …

We aim to model the results from a self-paced reading experiment, which tested the effect of semantic type clash and typicality on the …

Abstract Logical metonymy resolution (begin a book → begin reading a book or begin writing a book) has traditionally been explained …

Script Knowledge for Modelling Semantic Expectation

Modelling the Information Density of Event Sequences in Texts

We aim to model the results from a self-paced reading experiment, which tested the effect of semantic type clash and typicality on the …