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]
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