2007 Abstracts

Sample abstracts from 2007 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)

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.

Architecture and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP)

Frank, AF and Jaeger, TF (2007) Effects of local context on choice in production: Duration, frequency, fluency, and phonology.. 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.
Frank, A. and Jaeger, T.F. (2007) A Theory Of Choice In Production: Uniform Information Density Vs. Availability-Based Production. AMLaP.

Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL and NACCL)

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).

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.

CUNY Conference on Sentence Processing

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., Grodner, D. and Tanenhaus, M. K. (2008) Big duck, small duck, what do you see? Real-time integration of perspective information. 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.
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.
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.
Jaeger, T.F. and Snider, N.E. (2007) Implicit learning and syntactic persistence: Surprisal and Cumulativity. 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.

Linguistic Society of America (LSA)

Jaeger, T.F. (2007) Usage or Grammar? Comprehension and production share access to same probabilities. LSA.

Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT)

Heller D. and Wolter L. (2008) Identity and Indeterminacy in -ever Free Relatives. SALT.

Cognitive Science Society (CogSci)

Frank, AF, Tanenhaus, MK, Aslin, RN, Salverda, AP (2007) Frequency, Neighborhood Density, and Phonological Similarity Effects in Picture Naming: An Artificial Lexicon Study.. CogSci.
Jaeger, TF, and Kidd, C (2008) Towards a Unified Model of Word Pronunciation. CogSci.

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