@InProceedings{chersoni-blache-lenci:2016:CL4LC,
  author    = {Chersoni, Emmanuele  and  Blache, Philippe  and  Lenci, Alessandro},
  title     = {Towards a Distributional Model of Semantic Complexity},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Linguistic Complexity (CL4LC)},
  month     = {December},
  year      = {2016},
  address   = {Osaka, Japan},
  publisher = {The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee},
  pages     = {12--22},
  abstract  = {In this paper, we introduce for the first time a Distributional Model for
	computing semantic complexity, inspired by the general principles of the
	Memory, Unification and Control framework(Hagoort, 2013; Hagoort, 2016). We
	argue that sentence comprehension is an incremental process driven by the goal
	of constructing a coherent representation of the event represented by the
	sentence. The composition cost of a sentence depends on the semantic coherence
	of the event being constructed and on the activation degree of the linguistic
	constructions. We also report the results of a first evaluation of the model on
	the Bicknell dataset (Bicknell et al., 2010).},
  url       = {http://aclweb.org/anthology/W16-4102}
}