Search Results for author: Sidharth Ranjan

Found 8 papers, 1 papers with code

A bounded rationality account of dependency length minimization in Hindi

no code implementations22 Apr 2023 Sidharth Ranjan, Titus von der Malsburg

Additionally, for the task of distinguishing corpus sentences from counterfactual variants, we find that the dependency length and constituent length of the constituent closest to the main verb are much better predictors of whether a sentence appeared in the corpus than total dependency length.

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Discourse Context Predictability Effects in Hindi Word Order

no code implementations25 Oct 2022 Sidharth Ranjan, Marten Van Schijndel, Sumeet Agarwal, Rajakrishnan Rajkumar

While prior work has shown that a number of factors (e. g., information status, dependency length, and syntactic surprisal) influence Hindi word order preferences, the role of discourse predictability is underexplored in the literature.

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Dual Mechanism Priming Effects in Hindi Word Order

no code implementations25 Oct 2022 Sidharth Ranjan, Marten Van Schijndel, Sumeet Agarwal, Rajakrishnan Rajkumar

By showing that different priming influences are separable from one another, our results support the hypothesis that multiple different cognitive mechanisms underlie priming.

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A Simple Approach to Classify Fictional and Non-Fictional Genres

no code implementations WS 2019 Mohammed Rameez Qureshi, Sidharth Ranjan, Rajakrishnan Rajkumar, Kushal Shah

In this work, we deploy a logistic regression classifier to ascertain whether a given document belongs to the fiction or non-fiction genre.

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Surprisal and Interference Effects of Case Markers in Hindi Word Order

no code implementations WS 2019 Sidharth Ranjan, Sumeet Agarwal, Rajakrishnan Rajkumar

Based on the Production-Distribution-Comprehension (PDC) account of language processing, we formulate two distinct hypotheses about case marking, word order choices and processing in Hindi.

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Uniform Information Density Effects on Syntactic Choice in Hindi

no code implementations WS 2018 Ayush Jain, Vishal Singh, Sidharth Ranjan, Rajakrishnan Rajkumar, Sumeet Agarwal

According to the UNIFORM INFORMATION DENSITY (UID) hypothesis (Levy and Jaeger, 2007; Jaeger, 2010), speakers tend to distribute information density across the signal uniformly while producing language.

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