Talk
Known and unknown in infants' language learning: a story of perception, categorization, and inference
Amanda Stent (NLP Architect, Bloomberg)
Subtle Indicators of Decision Making in Finance-Relevant Text
Rada Mihalcea (Computer Science & Engineering, University of Michigan)
From Words To People And Back Again
Using Computational Linguistics to Investigate Multiword Expressions at the Brain Level
Roumyana Pancheva (Professor of Linguistics and Slavic Languages and Literatures, USC Dornsife)
Numerals and Number Features
Hannah Sande (Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Georgetown)
Cophonologies by Phase: Phases as the domain of phonological evaluation
Lunch available at 12:15, first talk begins promptly at 12:30.
DOUBLE HEADER!
Kathleen Oppenheimer (HESP)
Effects of Verb Bias and Plausibility on Children's Processing of Ambiguous Sentences
Lunch available at 12:15, talk begins promptly at 12:30.
Tyler Knowlton (LING)
The Scary Story of Conservativity
Lunch available at 12:15, talk begins promptly at 12:30.
Hanna Muller (LING)
Semantic Illusions
Abstract: Errors in sentence comprehension have proven a useful tool for understanding a range of cognitive processes in language. In this talk, I’ll discuss Semantic Illusions (also called Moses Illusions) and their implications for sentence processing.