Edward Gibson

I thought maybe they could process, they're used to legalese, they can process it just as well as if it was normal. No, no, they're much better than laypeople. So they can much better recall, much better understanding, but they have the same main effects as laypeople, exactly the same. So they also much prefer the non-center. So we constructed non-center embedded versions of each of these.

We constructed versions which have... higher frequency words in those places, and we un-passivized. We turned them into active versions. The passive-active made no difference. The words made a little difference, and the un-center embedding makes big differences in all the populations. Un-center embedding.

We constructed versions which have... higher frequency words in those places, and we un-passivized. We turned them into active versions. The passive-active made no difference. The words made a little difference, and the un-center embedding makes big differences in all the populations. Un-center embedding.

We constructed versions which have... higher frequency words in those places, and we un-passivized. We turned them into active versions. The passive-active made no difference. The words made a little difference, and the un-center embedding makes big differences in all the populations. Un-center embedding.

Yeah, yeah. So there's automatic parsers for English, which are pretty good. And they can detect center embedding. Oh, yeah. Or I guess nesting. Perfectly. Yeah, pretty much.

Yeah, yeah. So there's automatic parsers for English, which are pretty good. And they can detect center embedding. Oh, yeah. Or I guess nesting. Perfectly. Yeah, pretty much.

Yeah, yeah. So there's automatic parsers for English, which are pretty good. And they can detect center embedding. Oh, yeah. Or I guess nesting. Perfectly. Yeah, pretty much.

Yeah, we are in this case, in these cases. But long dependencies, they're highly correlated.

Yeah, we are in this case, in these cases. But long dependencies, they're highly correlated.

Yeah, we are in this case, in these cases. But long dependencies, they're highly correlated.

Can I read a sentence for you from these things? I mean, this is just like one of the things that, this is just typical.

Can I read a sentence for you from these things? I mean, this is just like one of the things that, this is just typical.

Can I read a sentence for you from these things? I mean, this is just like one of the things that, this is just typical.

So here we go. Because in the event that any payment or benefit by the company, all such payments and benefits, including the payments and benefits under Section 3A hereof, being here and after referred to as a total payment, would be subject to the excise tax, then the cash severance payments shall be reduced. So that's something we pulled from a regular text, from a contract. Wow.

So here we go. Because in the event that any payment or benefit by the company, all such payments and benefits, including the payments and benefits under Section 3A hereof, being here and after referred to as a total payment, would be subject to the excise tax, then the cash severance payments shall be reduced. So that's something we pulled from a regular text, from a contract. Wow.

So here we go. Because in the event that any payment or benefit by the company, all such payments and benefits, including the payments and benefits under Section 3A hereof, being here and after referred to as a total payment, would be subject to the excise tax, then the cash severance payments shall be reduced. So that's something we pulled from a regular text, from a contract. Wow.

And the center-embedded bit there is just, for some reason, there's a definition. They throw the definition of what... payments and benefits are in between the subject and the verb. How about don't do that? How about put the definition somewhere else as opposed to in the middle of the sentence? And so that's very, very common, by the way. That's what happens.

And the center-embedded bit there is just, for some reason, there's a definition. They throw the definition of what... payments and benefits are in between the subject and the verb. How about don't do that? How about put the definition somewhere else as opposed to in the middle of the sentence? And so that's very, very common, by the way. That's what happens.

And the center-embedded bit there is just, for some reason, there's a definition. They throw the definition of what... payments and benefits are in between the subject and the verb. How about don't do that? How about put the definition somewhere else as opposed to in the middle of the sentence? And so that's very, very common, by the way. That's what happens.

You just throw your definitions, you use a word, a couple words, and then you define it, and then you continue the sentence. Like, just don't write like that. And you ask, so then we asked lawyers, we thought, oh, maybe lawyers like this. Lawyers don't like this. They don't like this. They don't want to write like this.