README.md

Every ambiguity isn't syntactic in nature: Testing the Rational Speech Act model of scope ambiguity

This repository contains the materials for the following:

Sherry Yong Chen and Bob van Tiel (2021). Every ambiguity isn't syntactic in nature: Testing the Rational Speech Act model of scope ambiguity. Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL 2021)

If you use any of our code, data, or analyses, please cite the paper using the bib entry below:

@InProceedings{ChenVanTiel:2021,
  Author = {Chen, Sherry Yong and van Tiel, Bob},
  Title = {Every ambiguity isn't syntactic in nature: Testing the Rational Speech Act model of scope ambiguity},
  Booktitle = {Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL 2021)},
  Volume = {4},
  Pages = {254-263},
  Year = {2021},
  URL = {https://scholarworks.umass.edu/scil/vol4/iss1/24/}
}

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Overview

Our materials are organized into three primary folders:

• analysis (code for reproducing the results and figures in the paper)
• data (results from each experiment)
• materials (stimuli used for each experiment)