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Welcome to the home page of the UCSD computational psycholinguistics lab! We study human language comprehension, production, acquisition, and representation through a combination of computational modeling and experimental psycholinguistics.
News
20 October 2009...Our paper Eye movement evidence that readers maintain and act on uncertainty about past linguistic input has been accepted for publication in the Procedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
23 September 2009...Our lab will have two talks at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (January 7-10):
- Klinton Bicknell and Roger Levy. Eye movements in reading as optimal responses to the contextualized structure of language.
- Roger Levy. On hallucinated garden paths.
20 Apr 2009...Two members of our lab -- Rebecca Colavin and Nathaniel Smith -- have been awarded CRL Predoctoral Training Fellowships! These are funded by the NIDCD as part of the Center for Research in Language's Training Grant on "Language, Communication, and the Brain".
10 Apr 2009...Gabriel Doyle and Charles Elkan will have a talk at the 2009 International Conference on Machine Learning (June 14-18, 2009) on
Accounting for Burstiness in Topic Models.
30 Mar 2009...Our lab will have two talks at this year's Cognitive Science Conference in Amsterdam:
- Klinton Bicknell and Hannah Rohde. Effects of Discourse Relations and Real-World Event Knowledge on
Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution.
- Roger Levy. Particle filters and online sentence parsing. (Part of a symposium on Rational Process Models)
28 Jan 2009...Our lab has
four presentations in this year's CUNY sentence processing conference:
- Klinton Bicknell and Roger Levy. A new
model of local coherences as resulting from Bayesian belief
update (poster presentation).
- Roger Levy, Klinton Bicknell, Tim Slattery, and Keith Rayner. Readers maintain and act on uncertainty about past
linguistic input: Evidence from eye movements (oral presentation).
- Roger Levy, Florencia Reali, and Thomas Griffiths. Digging-in effects as rational limited-parallel
sentence comprehension (poster presentation).
- Harry Tily, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, and Roger Levy. Comprehension difficulty reflects an understanding of
likely production errors (poster presentation).
20 Jan 2009...Our lab will
have two papers in this year's NAACL:
- Klinton Bicknell and Roger Levy. A model of
local coherence effects in human sentence processing as consequences
of updates from bottom-up prior to posterior beliefs. To appear in
Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association
for Computational Linguistics -- Human Language Technologies
(NAACL-HLT) conference.
- Y. Albert Park and Roger Levy. Minimal-length
linearizations for mildly context-sensitive dependency trees. To
appear in Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the
Association for Computational Linguistics -- Human Language
Technologies (NAACL-HLT) conference.
19 Dec 2008...Klinton Bicknell, Vera Demberg
and Roger Levy have a paper accepted to the 35th
annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics
Society (February 14-16, 2009) on
Correcting the incorrect: Local coherence
effects modeled with prior belief update.
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