Abstract In response to Kobele et al. (2012), we evaluate four ways of linking the processing difficulty of sentences to the behavior of the top-down parser for Minimalist grammars developed in Stabler (2012). We investigate the predictions these four metrics make for a number of relative clause constructions, and we conclude that at this point, none of them capture the full range of attested patterns.
@InProceedings{GrafMarcinek14CMCL,
author = {Graf, Thomas and Marcinek, Bradley},
title = {Evaluating Evaluation Metrics for {M}inimalist Parsing},
year = {2014},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2014 {ACL} Workshop on Cognitive
Modeling and Computational Linguistics ({CMCL})},
pages = {28--36}
}