Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

The paper introduces a general model of recovery from errors in parsing. The mechanism proposed returns selectively on the choice points, in order to identify the one that was badly resolved, and could have caused the error. Then, it selects an alternative previously discarded and finally selectively repairs the appropriate fragments between the ambiguous region and the breakdown region. Both the psycholinguistic and the computational features of the model are put in evidence.