Papers

Boston, Marisa Ferrara, John T. Hale, and Marco Kuhlmann. 2009. Dependency structures derived from Minimalist Grammars. In Proceedings of Mathematics of Language 11 [BibTex].

Boston, Marisa Ferrara, John T. Hale, Reinhold Kliegl, and Shravan Vasishth. 2008. Surprising parser actions and reading difficulty. In Proceedings of ACL-08:HLT, Short Papers. pages 5-8. [BibTex].

Boston, Marisa Ferrara and Zhong Chen. 2008. Multilingual feature selection for a human sentence processing model. In Proceedings of the Fifth Midwest Computational Linguistics Colloquium (MCLC). [BibTex].

Boston, Marisa Ferrara, John T. Hale, Reinhold Kliegl, Umesh Patil, and Shravan Vasishth. 2008. Parsing costs as predictors of reading difficulty: An evaluation using the Potsdam Sentence Corpus. Journal of Eye Movement Research 2(1): 1-12.[BibTex].

Boston, Marisa Ferrara and John T. Hale. 2007. Garden-Pathing in a Statistical Dependency Parser. In Proceedings of the Fourth Midwest Computational Linguistics Colloquium (MCLC). [BibTex].

Software

HumDep Version 3.0. (The parser formally known as DepParse). An incremental dependency parser developed for human sentence processing modeling. Current languages: English, German, Chinese. Current psycholinguistic measures: Surprisal, Retrieval.

DepPrint Version 1.1. A dependency grammar visualizer that outputs SVG files.

NegraToConfig. A conversion tool from Negra format to Nivre parser configurations.

Poster Presentations

Examining syntactic factors in eye fixation durations. Poster from CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference in Davis, California. March 26-28, 2009.

Surprising parser actions and reading difficulty. Poster from ACL 2008 in Columbus, Ohio. June 15-20, 2008.

Modeling garden paths in a statistical dependency parser: Chinese, German, and English. Poster from CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference 2008 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. March 13-15, 2008.

Garden-pathing in a statistical dependency parser. Poster from AMLaP 2007 in Turku, Finland. August 24-27, 2007.