Paola Merlo

List of John Benjamins publications in which Paola Merlo is involved.

Title

The Lexical Basis of Sentence Processing: Formal, computational and experimental issues

Edited by Paola Merlo and Suzanne Stevenson

Lexical effects on language processing are currently a major focus of attention in studies of sentence comprehension. This thematic collection provides a uniquely multi-faceted and integrated viewpoint on key aspects of lexicalist theories, drawing from the fields of theoretical linguistics,… read more

[Natural Language Processing, 4] 2002. viii, 363 pp.

Articles

Gulordava, Kristina and Paola Merlo 2020 Computational quantitative syntax: The case of Universal 18 Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 16: Selected papers from the 47th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Newark, Delaware, Vogel, Irene (ed.), pp. 109–132 | Chapter

Accounting for the constraints on the possible word orders of a sentence in a language and across the world languages is a core challenge for syntactic theory. In the spirit of computational quantitative syntax, in this paper we present quantitative evidence about Universal 18. We show that… read more

Stevenson, Suzanne and Paola Merlo 2002 Words, numbers and all that: The lexicon in sentence understanding The Lexical Basis of Sentence Processing: Formal, computational and experimental issues, Merlo, Paola and Suzanne Stevenson (eds.), pp. 1–38 | Article

Berthouzoz, Cathy and Paola Merlo 2000 Statistical ambiguity resolution for grammar-based parsing Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing: Volume II: Selected papers from RANLP ’97, Nicolov, Nicolas and Ruslan Mitkov (eds.), pp. 93–104 | Article