Research in development / The Popkorn project
Which words
matter most?
Understanding a sentence.
Learning from linguistic evidence.
The research question
Word occurrences.
Sentence understanding.
Popkorn investigates how to rank word occurrences by their contribution to sentence understanding in an unknown language, using only a corpus in that language.
The project brings together corpus-based estimation, benchmark construction and human judgments to examine this question experimentally.
This research is in development.