Significance According to most linguists, the syntactic structure of sentences involves a tree-like hierarchy of nested phrases, as in the sentence [happy linguists] [draw [a diagram]]. Here, we ...

Learn how to use phrase structure grammar (PSG) in natural language processing (NLP) to understand and generate meaning from natural languages.

Do speakers of different languages build sentence structure in the same way? In a neuroimaging study, scientists recorded the brain activity of participants listening to Dutch stories. In contrast ...

UC Berkeley researchers say large language models have gained "metalinguistic ability," a hallmark of human language and ...

Predicting what comes next Both sentence building strategies could predict activity in the major left hemisphere's language areas. But the effects were much stronger for predictive structure building.