A few recent publications from our lab:

Submitted

Roger Levy, Evelina Fedorenko, Mara Breen, and Ted Gibson. 2009. The processing of extraposed structures in English. Submitted -- comments welcome! [PDF]

Hannah Rohde, Roger Levy, and Andrew Kehler. 2008. Anticipating Explanations in Relative Clause Processing. Submitted -- comments welcome! [PDF]

2009

Roger Levy, Klinton Bicknell, Tim Slattery, and Keith Rayner. 2009. Eye movement evidence that readers maintain and act on uncertainty about past linguistic input. In press, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [Abstract and link to PDF]

Klinton Bicknell and Hannah Rohde. Dynamic integration of pragmatic expectations and real-world event knowledge in syntactic ambiguity resolution. In J. Nerbonne, H. van Rijn, L. Schomaker, & N. Taatgen (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

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. [PDF]

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.

Roger Levy, Florencia Reali, and Thomas Griffiths. 2009. Modeling the effects of memory on human online sentence processing with particle filters. To appear, Proceedings of NIPS. [Pre-proceedings PDF]

Klinton Bicknell, Roger Levy, and Vera Demberg. Correcting the incorrect: Local coherence effects modeled with prior belief update. In Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS). Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society.

2008

Roger Levy. 2008. A noisy-channel model of rational human sentence comprehension under uncertain input. In Proceedings of EMNLP. [PDF]

Gabriel Doyle and Roger Levy. 2008. Environment Prototypicality in Syntactic Alternation. To appear in Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. [PDF]

Klinton Bicknell, Jeffrey L. Elman, Mary Hare, Ken McRae, and Marta Kutas. Online expectations for verbal arguments conditional on event knowledge. In Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

Nathaniel Smith and Roger Levy. 2008. Optimal Processing Times in Reading: a Formal Model and Empirical Investigation. To appear in Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (oral presentation). [PDF]

Roger Levy. 2008. Expectation-based syntactic comprehension. Cognition 106(3):1126-1177. [PDF]

2007

Roger Levy and T. Florian Jaeger. 2007. Speakers optimize information density through syntactic reduction. Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. [paper|appendix 1|appendix 2]