Selected Recent Publications

2008

Deoskar, Tejaswini (2008), Re-estimation of Lexical Parameters for Treebank PCFGs, In Procedings of 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), Manchester, UK.

Boston, M. F., Hale, J. T., Kliegl, R., and Vasishth, S. (2008). Surprising parser actions and reading difficulty. In Proceedings of ACL-08: HLT, Short Papers. pages 5-8.

Boston, M. F. and Chen, Z. (2008). Multilingual feature selection for a human sentence processing model. In Proceedings of the Fifth Midwest Computational Linguistics Colloquium (MCLC).

Boston, M. F., Hale, J. T., Kliegl, R., Patil, U., and Vasishth, S. (2008). Parsing costs as predictors of reading difficulty: An evaluation using the Potsdam Sentence Corpus. Journal of Eye Movement Research 2(1): 1-12.

Deoskar, T. and Rooth, M. (2008). Induction of Treebank-Aligned Lexical Resources. Proceedings of Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Marrakech, Morocco.

Georgala, E. and Whitman, J. (To appear). Ditransitives and Applicative Structure in Greek. In: Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 43). Chicago, IL. May 3-5.

Georgala, E., Whitman, J., and Paul, W. (2008). Expletive and Thematic Applicatives. In: Proceedings of the 26th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 26). C. B. Chang and H. J. Haynie (eds), 181-189. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

2007

Boston, M. F., and Hale, J. T. (2007). Garden-Pathing in a Statistical Dependency Parser. In Proceedings of the Fourth Midwest Computational Linguistics Colloquium (MCLC).

Bowers, J., and Georgala, E. (2007). The Syntax of Goals and Beneficiaries in Modern Greek. In: Studies in the Morpho-syntax of Greek. Artemis Alexiadou (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Deoskar, T., and Rooth, M. (2007). Corpus Induction of Lexicons for Treebank PCFGs by Inside-Outside Estimation and Frequency Transformations. Ms.

Hale, J. T. (2007). Deforesting LF. To appear in UCLA Working Papers volume collecting the Proceedings of Mathematics of Language 10.

Grove, K. (2007). Why Unergatives Select Themselves a Fake Reflexive. MALC Working Papers 2007.

2006

Deoskar, T. (2006). Marathi Light Verbs. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society.

Hale, J. T. (2006). Uncertainty about the rest of the sentence. Cognitive Science volume 30 number 4. pages 609-642.

Rooth, M. (2006). Second occurrence focus and relativized stress F. Paper presented at International Conference on Information Structure. SFB 632, Universität Potsdam and Humboldt-Universät zu Berlin. June 6-8, 2006, and subsequently at Frankfurt, Tuebingen, and Keio.

Earlier work

Georgala, E. (2003). A Statistical Grammar Model for Modern Greek: The Context-Free Grammar. In: Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Thessaloniki, Greece.

Georgala, E. (2000). The Translational Correspondence between the Modern Greek Formations Ending in -tos and -menos and their Equivalent Forms in German. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Greek Linguistics (ICGL). Nicosia, Cyprus.

Rooth, M. (2005). Topic Accents on Quantifiers. In Reference and Quantification: the Partee Effect, Greg Carlson and Jeffrey Pelletier, (eds.) Stanford: CSLI Publications.

Rooth, M. & Schmid, H. (2001). Parse forest computation of expected governors. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.