Abstracts

Sample abstracts from conferences, which provide a snapshot of some recent research by CLS members, especially graduate students and post-docs. See faculty and individual student web pages for representative publications and descriptions of research interests.

Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

Gordon, J., Van Durme, B., and Schubert, L. (2010) Learning from the Web: Extracting General World Knowledge from Noisy Text. AAAI 2010 Workshop on Collaboratively-built Knowledge Sources and Artificial Intelligence.
Benjamin Van Durme and Marius Pasca. (2008) Finding Cars, Goddesses and Enzymes: Parametrizable Acquisition of Labeled Instances for Open-Domain Information Extraction. Twenty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-08).
Allen, J., Chambers, N., Ferguson, G., Galescu, L., Jung, H., Swift, M. and Taysom, W. (2007) PLOW: A Collaborative Task Learning Agent. Outstanding Paper Award. AAAI.
Gomez Gallo, C. (2007). Handling Non-Sentential Utterances in a Continuous Understanding Framework. AAAI.

Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL / EACL/ NACCL)

Gordon, J., Van Durme, B., and Schubert, L. (2010) Evaluation of Commonsense Knowledge with Mechanical Turk. NAACL 2010 Workshop on Creating Speech and Language Data with Amazon's Mechanical Turk.
Temperley, D. (2010) Music, Language, and Computational Modeling: Lessons from the Key-Finding Problem. Keynote Address, NAACL.
Ting Qian, Benjamin Van Durme and Lenhart K. Schubert. (2009) Building a Semantic Lexicon of English Nouns via Bootstrapping. NAACL '09, Student Research Workshop.
Benjamin Van Durme, Phillip Michalak and Lenhart K. Schubert. (2009) Deriving Generalized Knowledge from Corpora using WordNet Abstraction. EACL'09.
Dekang Lin, Shaojun Zhao, Benjamin Van Durme and Marius Pasca. Mining Parenthetical Translations from the Web by Word Alignment. The 46th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL-08). 2008.
Marius Pasca and Benjamin Van Durme. (2008) Weakly-Supervised Acquisition of Open-Domain Classes and Class Attributes from Web Documents and Query Logs. The 46th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL-08).
Allen, J., Chambers, N., Ferguson, G., Galescu, L., Jung, H., Swift, M. and Taysom, W. (2007) Demonstration of PLOW: A Dialogue System for One-Shot Task Learning. NAACL.
Gildea, D. and Stefankovic, D. (2007) Worst-Case Synchronous Grammar Rules. NAACL.
Gildea, D. and Temperley, D. (2007) Optimizing Grammars for Minimum Dependency Length. ACL.
Liu, D. and Gildea, D. (2007) Source-Language Features and Maximum Correlation Training for Machine Translation Evaluation. NAACL.
Zhang H. and Gildea D. (2007) Factorization of Synchronous Context-Free Grammars in Linear Time. NAACL Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST).

Architecture and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP)

Snider, Neal and T. F. Jaeger. (2009) Syntax in flux: structural priming maintains probabilistic representations. 15th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. September 7-9, Barcelona, Spain.
Carbary, K. & Tanenhaus, M. K. (2008). Syntactic priming and message encoding in unscripted dialogue. AMLaP talk.
Heller, D., Skovbroten, K., & Tanenhaus M.K. (2008) Joint effects of knowledge overlap (bias) and strength of memory representations. Poster presented at the Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Cambridge, UK.
Salverda, A.P., & Tanenhaus, M.K. (2008). Orthographic and phonological information in the printed-words paradigm. AMLaP.
Frank, AF and Jaeger, TF (2007) Effects of local context on choice in production: Duration, frequency, fluency, and phonology. AMLaP.
Frank, A. and Jaeger, T.F. (2007) A Theory Of Choice In Production: Uniform Information Density Vs. Availability-Based Production. AMLaP.
Frank, AF, Tanenhaus, MK, Aslin, R.N., Salverda, A.P. (2007) Experience and Similarity in the Mental Lexicon: Artificial Lexicon Studies in Production and Comprehension. AMLaP.
Jaeger, T.F. (2007) Rational Speakers: speakers help processing when it is most necessary. AMLaP.

Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD)

Finley and Newport (2010). Morpheme segmentation from distributional information.
Kidd, C., White, K.S., & Aslin, R.N. (2009) Children's Use of Disfluencies in Online Comprehension. BUCLD.

Cognitive Neuroscience (CNS)

Newman, A.J., Newport, E.L., Supalla, T., and Bavelier, D. (2007) Neural systems involved in the comprehension of American Sign Language and meaningful nonlinguistic gesture: An fMRI study. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.
Vannest, J., Newport, E.L., and Bavelier, D. (2007) The neural basis of frequency effects for inflected and uninflected verbs: an event-related fMRI study. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)

Benjamin Van Durme, Ting Qian and Lenhart K. Schubert. Class-Driven Attribute Extraction. COLING'08. 2008.

Cognitive Science Society (CogSci)

Finley and Badecker (2010). Linguistic and non-linguistic learning biases for vowel harmony.
Kidd, C., Piantadosi, S.T., & Aslin, R.N. (2010) The Goldilocks Effect: Infants' preference for stimuli that are neither too predictable nor too surprising. CogSci.
Reeder, P.A., Newport, E.L, & Aslin, R.N. (2010) Novel words in novel contexts: The role of distributional information in form-class category learning. CogSci.
Goldwater, M. B., Carbary, K. M. & Tanenhaus, M. K. (2009). Visual similarity and referential domain membership affect object categorization during reference resolution. CogSci poster.
Heller, D., Skovbroten, K., & Tanenhaus M.K. (2009) Experimental evidence for speakers' sensitivity to common vs. privileged ground in the production of names. Paper presented at the PRE-CogSci Workshop on the Production of Referring Expressions, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Kidd, C., White, K.S., & Aslin, R.N. (2009) Children's Use of Disfluencies in for Pragmatic Inference in Lexical Development. CogSci.
Reeder, P.A., Newport, E.L., & Aslin, R.N. (2009) The role of distributional information in linguistic category formation. CogSci.
Jaeger, TF, and Kidd, C (2008) Towards a Unified Model of Word Pronunciation. CogSci.
Snider, Neal. (2009) Similarity and Structural Priming. In N.A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 816-822). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Frank, AF, Tanenhaus, MK, Aslin, RN, Salverda, AP (2007) Frequency, Neighborhood Density, and Phonological Similarity Effects in Picture Naming: An Artificial Lexicon Study. CogSci.

CUNY Conference on Sentence Processing

Degen, J. and Tanenhaus, M.K. (2010) Naturalness of Lexical Alternatives Influences Interpretation of 'some'. CUNY.
Degen, J. and Tanenhaus, M.K. (2010) When Contrast Is Salient, Pragmatic 'some' Precedes Logical 'some'. Poster presented at CUNY 2010, NYU, March 18-20.
Kim, C., Gunlogson, C., Tanenhaus, M. and Runner, J. (2010) Constraining Focus Processing in Discourse. CUNY.
Skovbroten, K., Gegg-Harrison, W., Heller, D., & Tanenhaus M.K. (2010) To name or not to name: the role of shared experience in speakers' choice of referring expressions. Poster presented at the 23rd annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY.
Snider, Neal and J. Runner. (2010) The role of structural parallelism in anaphoric antecedent resolution. 22nd CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. March 18-20, New York University.
Wolter, L., Skovbroten, K., & Tanenhaus M.K. (2010) Contrast and linguistic mention: out of sight but still in mind. Talk given at the 23rd annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY.
Arnon, I. and Neal Snider. (2009) More than words - speakers are sensitive to the frequency of four-word phrases. 22nd CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. March 26-28, University of California at Davis.
Carbary, K. M., Gunlogson, C. & Tanenhaus, M. K. (2009). Deaccenting cues listeners to upcoming referents. CUNY poster.
Degen, J., Reeder, P.A., Carbary, K., and Tanenhaus, M.K. (2009) Using a Novel Experimental Paradigm to Investigate the Processing of Scalar Implicatures. CUNY.
Heller, D., Skovbroten, K., & Tanenhaus M.K. (2009) How speakers use of names distinguishes shared and privileged information. Talk given at the 22nd annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Davis, CA.
Kidd, C., White, K.S., & Aslin, R.N. (2009) Children's Use of Disfluencies in Online Comprehension. CUNY.
Kim, C., Carbary, K. and Tanenhaus, M. (2009) Syntactic priming disambiguates globally ambiguous sentences in language comprehension. CUNY.
Kim, C. and Runner, J. (2009) Disentangling syntactic and discourse parallelism in VP ellipsis. CUNY.
Benjamin Van Durme, Austin Frank and T. Florian Jaeger. (2009) Comparing Sources of Corpus Frequency Information. The 22nd Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY-09).
Wolter, L., Skovbroten, K., & Tanenhaus M.K. (2009) Reference resolution isn't wysiwyg: Separating effects of linguistic mention from availability of the referent. Poster presented at the 22nd annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Davis, CA.
Frank, AF and Jaeger, TF (2008) Models of speaker choice in production: Integrating information and availability. CUNY.
Gomez Gallo, C, Jaeger, TF, Smyth, R (2008) From Message to Syntax: Incremental Syntactic Planning beyond the Clause Level. CUNY.
Heller, D., Arnold J. E., Klein, N., and Tanenhaus, M. K. (2008) What do listeners expect when the speaker is disfluent: Something unfamiliar or something hard to name?. CUNY.
Heller, D., Grodner, D. and Tanenhaus, M. K. (2008) Big duck, small duck, what do you see? Real-time integration of perspective information. CUNY.
Jaeger, TF, Fedoreno, E, Hofmeister, P, and Gibson, E (2008) Expectation-based Syntactic Processing: Anti-locality outside of Head-final Languages. CUNY.
Jaeger, TF, and Kidd, C (2008) A Unified Model of Redundancy Avoidance and Strategic Lengthening. CUNY.
Kim, C, Gunlogson, C, Tanenhaus, M, and Runner, J (2008) Domain narrowing: Interpreting 'only' in context. CUNY.
Klein, NM, Gegg-Harrison, W, Sussman, RS, Carlson, GN, and Tanenhaus, MK (2008) Referential domains and the real-time processing of "Weak Definite" noun phrases. CUNY & XPRAG.
Kobele, G, Kim, C, Hale, J, and Runner, J (2008) A processing model for ungrammatical verb phrase ellipsis. CUNY.
Tanenhaus, M, Frank, A, Jaeger, TF, Masharov, M, and Salverda, AP (2008) The art of the state: Mixed effect regression modeling in the Visual World . CUNY.
Wagner Cook, S, Jaeger, TF, and Tanenhaus, M (2008) Producing Dispreferred Structures. CUNY.
Carbary, KM and Tanenhaus, MK (2007) Syntactic priming in an unscripted dialogue task. CUNY.
Heller, D., Yee E. and Sedivy J. (2007) What do eye movements tell us about reference resolution using ambiguous pronouns to evaluate the linking hypotheses? CUNY.
Jaeger, T.F. and Snider, N.E. (2007) Implicit learning and syntactic persistence: Surprisal and Cumulativity. CUNY.
Salverda, A.P., Spivey, M.J., Magnuson, J.S., and Tanenhaus, M.K. (2007) Eye movements and hand movements as indices of lexical processing. CUNY.

Generative Linguistics of the Old World (GLOW)

Kim, C. (2007) What verification strategies tell us about processing presuppositions. GLOW.

International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS)

Clayards, M., Aslin, R.N., Tanenhaus, M.K., and Jacobs, R.A. (2007) Within category phonetic variability affect perceptual uncertainty. ICPHS.

International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)

Benjamin Van Durme and Ashwin Lall. (2009) Probabilistic Counting with Randomized Storage. Twenty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09).

International Society on Infant Studies (ISIS)

Kidd, C., Piantadosi, S.T., & Aslin, R.N. (2010) Infants' Looking Behavior Demonstrates Use of Rational Statistical Inference. ISIS.

International Workshop on Language Production (IWLP)

Austin F. Frank, Celeste Kidd, Matthew Post, Benjamin Van Durme and T. Florian Jaeger. (2008) The Web as a Psycholinguistic Resource. Presented at the 5th International Workshop on Language Production.

Linguistic Society of America (LSA)

Finley (2010). Learning non-participating vowels.
Finley and Newport (2010). Morpheme Segmentation in Artificial Grammars.
Kim, C., Gunlogson, C., Tanenhaus, M. and Runner, J. (2010) Focus Alternatives and Discourse Parallelism. LSA.
Arnon, I. & Neal Snider. (2009) More than words: Speakers are sensitive to the frequency of multi-word sequences. Presentation at LSA Annual Meeting. Jan 8-11. San Francisco, CA.
Finley (2009). Directionality in vowel harmony: A hybrid approach.
Kidd, C., White, K.S., & Aslin, R.N. (2009) Children can use disfluencies for word learning. LSA.
Kim, C., Carbary, K and Tanenhaus, M. (2009) Syntactic priming disambiguates globally ambiguous sentences in language comprehension. LSA.
Kim, C. and Runner, J.(2009) When syntactic parallelism is really discourse parallelism in VP ellipsis. LSA.
Snider, Neal. (2009) Accessibility and passive choice. Presentation at LSA Annual Meeting. Jan 8-11. San Francisco, CA.
Jaeger, T.F. (2007) Usage or Grammar? Comprehension and production share access to same probabilities. LSA.

Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)

Benjamin Van Durme and Ashwin Lall. (2009) Streaming Pointwise Mutual Information. NIPS.

Conference on Prosody and Language Processing (Prosody)

Temperley, D. (2008) Distributional Stress Regularity: A Corpus Approach. Prosody.

Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) / Sinn und Bedeutung

Kim, C. and Runner, J. (2009) Discourse structure and parallelism in VP ellipsis. SALT.
Heller D. and Wolter L. (2008) Identity and Indeterminacy in -ever Free Relatives. SALT.
Kim, C., Gunlogson, C., Tanenhaus, M. and Runner, J. (2008) Focus Alternatives and Contextual Domain Restriction: A Visual World Eye-tracking Study on the Interpretation of Only. Sinn und Bedeutung.

Experimental Pragmatics (XPRAG)

Degen, J., Reeder, P.A., Carbary, K., and Tanenhaus, M.K. (2009) Using a Novel Experimental Paradigm to Investigate the Processing of Scalar Implicatures. XPRAG.
Kim, C., Gunlogson, C., Tanenhaus, M. and Runner, J. (2009) Restricting and generating hypotheses about focus alternatives. XPrag.

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