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Help with Discovery Presentation

Hello Friends,

As a project for discovery, Peter Hersh and I are investigating the different suggestions for online searches.  For example typing in “The world is” results in suggestions on various ways to finish the sentence.  We have attached a table of various starts to searches and we are hoping you can fill out the top 3 suggested finishes.  We used two different search engines, but these will be obscured in the final presentation (Engine A, Engine .  We will also keep your identities private as well.  If you can fill this out and send it back to us it would be greatly appreciated.  Please don’t feel obligated if you would rather not.  If you have already done it, then please disregard this post (and, thank you!).  

Any question reach out to Pete or myself.

Re: Help with Discovery Presentation

What a fun exercise @HadleyMyers and @Peter_Hersh. This actually is a version of a something that language researchers call a "cloze" task, and it is commonly used in cognitive psychology and neuroscience when designing stimuli for use in experiments investigating how the mind/brain understands words and sentences; for example, a researcher might have people read sentences in which they've manipulated how expected the final word is (as estimated via cloze task; e.g. "I take my coffee with cream and [sugar / Splenda].") and then measure the effect on a brainwave that's triggered while somebody reads that word. Perhaps helpful here: Some researchers have started using NLP to simulate cloze task results when survey data might be inadequate or too expensive to collect. My wife (an academic researcher in this area) actually told me just the other day about using GPT-2 to simulate a massive cloze task (with thousands of sentences to complete) that no reasonable human would agree to do. I'm not sure how labor-intensive this was to do, but it could be worth considering if you don't get enough data from us JMPers to put together a good story for your presentation. 

*EDIT: I now realize that I misunderstood the task (you're not asking for us humans to complete the sentences), so the GPT-2 suggestion above probably isn't relevant. But I'll leave the post up as a random bit of cognitive science trivia.