[Corpora-List] Passive voice verbs in reduced relative clauses

[Sean Igo]

Thanks, John. It's little surprise to me that allowing for these 
reduced-relative constructions complicates parsing, for machines and 
humans alike.

I am, though, interested in seeing what research has been done in the 
NLP field with respect to these reduced-relative passives, such as how 
accurately parsers or other systems recognize them and correctly 
determine their voice.

Regards,
Sean

John F. Sowa wrote:
> Sean Igo wrote
>
> > I'm interested in an English garden-path phenomenon which
> > arises when verbs in passive voice occur in reduced relative
> > clauses, e.g.:
> >
> > "The horse _raced_ past the barn fell."
> >
> > as opposed to the non-reduced relative clause version,
> >
> > "The horse that _was raced_ past the barn fell."
>
> I recall some psycholinguistic studies from many years ago
> that indicate faster human response times when relative
> pronouns are used in such constructions (and in some related
> constructions in which they are optional).  Unfortunately,
> I do not have the references handy.  [...]
>
> For many broad-coverage parsers, the difference in time can be
> enormous.  In fact, most of the speed up results from faster
> parsing of the sentences that do *not* contain any relative
> pronouns -- i.e., the time spent in testing for such options
> is longer than the time spent on the ones that actually occur.