AUTHOR=Dotlačil Jakub , de Haan Puck 

TITLE=Parsing Model and a Rational Theory of Memory

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=12

YEAR=2021

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.657705

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2021.657705

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=<p>This paper explores how the rational theory of memory summarized in Anderson (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">1991</xref>) can inform the computational psycholinguistic models of human parsing. It is shown that transition-based parsing is particularly suitable to be combined with Anderson's theory of memory systems. The combination of the rational theory of memory with the transition-based parsers results in a model of sentence processing that is data-driven and can be embedded in the cognitive architecture Adaptive Control of Thought-Rational (ACT-R). The predictions of the parser are tested against qualitative data (garden-path sentences) and a self-paced reading corpus (the Natural Stories corpus).</p>