This is the tentative schedule of topics for the seminar in computational psycholinguistics.
To the extent possible, the readings here are available on the Web; if not, they will be in a Linguistics reserve folder in 1401 Marie Mount Hall. "Additional readings" are optional links pointing either to material you should already know (but might want to review) or to related material you might be interested in.
Some topic areas may take longer than expected, so keep an eye on the class mailing list or e-mail one of the instructors for "official" dates. Note that at the moment all readings are VERY tentative!
| Class | Topic | Readings | Other readings | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 5 | No class -- Labor Day! | |||
| September 12 | Psycho-Computational Theories: History and Issues | none | Amy | |
| September 19 | Grammars and Complexity | Shieber (1985), Resnik (1992) | Miller and Chomsky (1963) | Philip |
| September 26 | Incremental Processing | TBD | Amy | |
| October 3 Rescheduled for Rosh Hashanah | ||||
| October 10 | Probabilistic Modeling of Production |
(1) Alan Bell, Daniel Jurafsky, Eric Fosler-Lussier, Cynthia Girand,
Michelle Gregory, and Daniel Gildea. 2003. Effects of
disfluencies, predictability, and utterance position on word form
variation in English conversation. Journal of the Acoustical
Society of America 113 (2), 1001-1024. (2) Wasow, T., Jaeger, T.F., and Orr, D. in progress. Lexical Variation in Relativizer Frequency. For the Workshop on Expecting the unexpected: Exceptions in Grammar at the 27th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Association, University of Cologne, Germany. (Draft of 31 July 2005). |
(1) Optional (background survey): Dan Jurafsky. 2002. Probabilistic
Modeling in Psycholinguistics: Linguistic Comprehension and
Production. In Rens Bod, Jennifer Hay, and Stefanie Jannedy, (Eds).,
Probabilistic Linguistics. (2) Optional (related and interesting): Gahl, S. & Garnsey, S. Knowledge of grammar, knowledge of usage: Syntactic probabilities affect pronunciation variation. Language vol. 80(4), 748-775, 2004. |
Philip |
| October 17 | Class cancelled | |||
| October 24 | Probabilistic and Constraint-Based Frameworks | (1) Crocker, Matthew W. and Frank Keller. 2005.
Probabilistic Grammars as Models of Gradience in Language
Processing. To appear in Gisbert Fanselow, Caroline Fry, Ralph
Vogel, and Matthias Schlesewsky, eds., Gradience in Grammar:
Generative Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(2) Dan Jurafsky. 2002. Probabilistic Modeling in Psycholinguistics: Linguistic Comprehension and Production |
Michael | |
| October 31 | Word Senses and Lexical Access |
(1) Beretta, Fiorentino, and Poeppel (2005).
Effects of homonymy and Polysemy on lexical Access Cognitive and
Brain Research 24, to appear. (2) Rodd, Jennifer, et al. Making Sense of Semantic Ambiguity: Semantic Complexity in lexical Access Journal of Memory and Language 46, 245-266. (3) Roland, D. and Jurafsky 2002: Verb sense and verb subcategorization probabilities. In Paola Merlo and Suzanne Stevenson (Eds), The Lexical Basis of Sentence Processing: Formal, Computational, and Experimental Issues, John Benjamins. (4) Chapter 3 of Doug Roland's dissertation |
Jennifer M. Rodd, M. Gareth Gaskell, William D. Marslen-Wilson, Modelling the effects of semantic ambiguity in word recognition. Cognitive Science 28(1): 89-104 (2004) | Philip M |
| November 7 and 14 | Center Embedding/Memory Models |
(1) Gibson, E.A (1998) Linguistic
Complexity: Locality of Linguistic dependencies, Cognition 68, pp.
1-76. (2) McElree, B, Foraker, S and Dyer L (2003), Memory Structures that Subserve Sentence Comprehension, Journal of Memory and Language 48(1), pp. 67-91. |
Ellen? | |
| November 21 | Rational Analysis |
(1) Lewis and Vasishth.
An activation-based model of sentence processing as skilled memory retrieval. Cognitive Science, 2005.
(2) Sturt, P, MJ Pickering, and M Crocker (2000) Structural Change and Reanalysis Difficulty in Language Comprehension. Journal of Memory and Language 40(1): 136-150. |
Amy | |
| November 28 | Rational Analysis, continued |
Finishing up Lewis and Vasishth.
An activation-based model of sentence processing as skilled memory
retrieval. Cognitive Science, 2005.
Original plan for this meeting: McRae, K. and Spivey Knowlton, MJ and Tanenhaus M (1998), Modeling the Influence of Thematic Fit (And Other Constraints) in Online Sentence Comprehension. Journal of Memory and Language 38(3): 283-312. |
Yuval | |
| December 5 | Neural Network Models |
(1) Pollack, J. B. (1990). Recursive
Distributed Representations,Artificial Intelligence 46, 1, 77-105.
(2) Whitney, C. & Weinberg, A. (2003). Representing a parse in the brain: The TPARRSE model, ms., University of Maryland. |
Amy | |
| December 12 | Information Theoretic Approaches |
(1) John Hale reading TBD, probably one of
(a) J Hale (2004), The
Information-Processing Difficulty of Incremental Parsing", In
Proceedings of the ACL Workshop Incremental Parsing: Bringing
Engineering and Cognition Together, F. Keller, S. Clark, M. Crocker
and M. Steedman, editors, pages 58-65.
(b) J Hale (2003), The
Information Conveyed by Words in Sentences, Journal of
Psycholinguistic Research. volume 32, number 2. pages 101-123.
(2) Reading TBD from Roger Levy's dissertation. |
Amy | |
| TBD | Rescheduled class, topic TBD |