Human Sentence Processing: Recurrence or Attention?

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2005.09471v2
• Date: Tue, 4 May 2021 12:49:14 GMT
• Title: Human Sentence Processing: Recurrence or Attention?
• Authors: Danny Merkx and Stefan L. Frank
• Abstract summary: Recently introduced Transformer architecture outperforms RNNs on many natural language processing tasks. We compare Transformer- and RNN-based language models' ability to account for measures of human reading effort.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have long been an architecture of interest for computational models of human sentence processing. The recently introduced Transformer architecture outperforms RNNs on many natural language processing tasks but little is known about its ability to model human language processing. We compare Transformer- and RNN-based language models' ability to account for measures of human reading effort. Our analysis shows Transformers to outperform RNNs in explaining self-paced reading times and neural activity during reading English sentences, challenging the widely held idea that human sentence processing involves recurrent and immediate processing and provides evidence for cue-based retrieval.

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