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  <Title>Semantic Analysis of Chinese Garden-Path Sentences</Title>
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2 Previous Work
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The phenomenon of garden-path sentences has attracted a lot of attention in the research com- null munities of psycholinguistics and computational linguistics. The goal of this research is to discover how people understand garden-path sentences and how to analyze them automatically. In English, garden-path sentences always involve a subordinate clause and a main clause together with an NP that attaches initially to the former but ultimately to the latter (Karl and Fernanda, 2003). This NP is the point of misunderstanding and the verb after the NP is always the error signal. Models of reanalysis are aimed at describing and motivating the mechanisms used by the sentence comprehension system to detect errors, deduce useful information about the nature of the necessary repair of those errors, and ultimately create a successful analysis (Ferreira and Christianson, 2001). Fodor and Inoue(1998) proposed the principles of Attach Anyway and Adjust to explain how reanalysis processes operate. Ferreira and Christianson(2001) stated that Reflexive Absolute Transitive (RAT) verbs, such as wash, bathe, shave, scratch, groom, and so on, are likely to give rise to garden-paths. Michael J.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Pazzani(1984) demonstrated how to reanalyze one type of garden-path sentence that arises from a passive participle and a main verb conflicting.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> However Ferreira and Henderson(2001) demonstrated that reanalysis is more difficult when the head of the misanalyzed phrase (baby in the baby that was small and cute) is distant from the error signal.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> In Chinese, there has been little research that directly addresses the problem of garden-paths.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> Zhiwei Feng(2003) interpreted the temporarily ambiguous verb structure in a garden-path in two ways; one is as a subordinate clause (MV), the other is a Reduced Relative (RR). He defined Garden Path Degree (GPD) as MV/RR. He studied some types of temporarily ambiguous verb structures such as NP1+VP+NP2+de+NP3, VP+NP1+de+NP2, V+Adj+de+N and V+V+de+N, and stated that when GPD is larger than 3, the temporarily ambiguous verb structure may give rise to a garden-path. Moreover he used the Earley algorithm to process garden-path sentences.</Paragraph>
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