Extracting token-level signals of syntactic processing from fMRI - with an application to PoS induction

TY - CONF

T1 - Extracting token-level signals of syntactic processing from fMRI - with an application to PoS induction

AU - Bingel, Joachim

AU - Barrett, Maria Jung

AU - Søgaard, Anders

PY - 2016

Y1 - 2016

N2 - Neuro-imaging studies on reading different parts of speech (PoS) report somewhat mixed results, yet some of them indicate different activations with different PoS. This paper addresses the difficulty of using fMRI to discriminate between linguistic tokens in reading of running text because of low temporal resolution. We show that once we solve this problem, fMRI data contains a signal of PoS distinctions to the extent that it improves PoS induction with error reductions of more than 4%.

AB - Neuro-imaging studies on reading different parts of speech (PoS) report somewhat mixed results, yet some of them indicate different activations with different PoS. This paper addresses the difficulty of using fMRI to discriminate between linguistic tokens in reading of running text because of low temporal resolution. We show that once we solve this problem, fMRI data contains a signal of PoS distinctions to the extent that it improves PoS induction with error reductions of more than 4%.

M3 - Paper

T2 - ACL 2016

Y2 - 7 August 2016 through 12 August 2016

ER -