Zhong Chen 陳鍾

Education

• Ph.D., 2008-present: Linguistics, Cognitive Science (minor), Cornell University
  Committee: John Hale (Chair), Barbara Lust, John Whitman
• Dual Ph.D. Program, 2006-2008: Linguistics and Computer Science & Engineering, Michigan State University
• B.A., 2006: Chinese Linguistics (Chinese Information Processing), Nanjing Normal University, China

Publications

• In prep. Zhong Chen, Qiang Li, Kuei-Lan Kuo and Shravan Vasishth, Processing Chinese relative clauses: Evidence for the universal subject preference.
• To appear. Zhong Chen, Kyle Grove and John T. Hale, Structural expectations in Chinese relative clause comprehension. In Proceedings of the 29th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
• To appear. Zhong Chen, Lena Jäger and Shravan Vasishth, How structure-sensitive is the parser? Evidence from Mandarin Chinese. In B. Stolterfoht and S. Featherston (Eds.). Empirical approaches to linguistic theory: Studies of meaning and structure, Studies in Generative Grammar, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin.
• 2010. Zhong Chen and John T. Hale, Deforesting Logical Form. In C. Ebert, G. Jäger and J. Michaelis (Eds.). The Mathematics of Language. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence #6149. pp. 13-28. Springer, Heidelberg.
• 2008. Marisa F. Boston and Zhong Chen, Multilingual feature selection for a human sentence processing model. In Proceedings of the 5th Midwest Computational Linguistics Colloquium (MCLC) , East Lansing, MI, May 10-11.
• 2005. Weiguang Qu, Yu Dong, Zhong Chen and Xiaohe Chen, Context Computing Model Based Word Sense Disambiguation, In Proceedings of the 8th Joint Symposium of Computational Linguistics , pp. 134–139, Nanjing, China
• 2005. Yanhua Xu, Xiaohe Chen, Bin Li and Zhong Chen, ‘V+V’ structure Ambiguity Study in Contemporary Chinese for Automatic Parsing, In Proceedings of the 8th Joint Symposium of Computational Linguistics , pp. 312–319, Nanjing, China

Conference Presentations

• 2011. Zhong Chen, Kyle Grove and John T. Hale. Structural expectations in Chinese relative clause comprehension, Talk given at The 29th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), University of Arizona, April 22-24.
• 2011. Zhong Chen and Shravan Vasishth, Does the parser exclusively use structure-sensitive search in reflexives? Evidence from Mandarin Chinese, Talk given at The 24th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Stanford University, March 24-26.
• 2010. Zhong Chen, Kuei-Lan Kuo, Qiang Li and Shravan Vasishth, Integration cost or structural frequency? The evidence from Chinese relative clauses, Poster presentation at The 23rd CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York University, March 18-20.
• 2010. Zhong Chen and Shravan Vasishth, Locality cost in sentence comprehension: Evidence from Chinese relative clauses, Poster presentation at The 84th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) . Baltimore, MD, January 7-10.
• 2009. Zhong Chen, Marisa F. Boston and John T. Hale, Using entropy to evaluate child language performance, Poster presentation at The 22nd CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing . The University of California at Davis, March 26-28.
• 2008. Marisa F. Boston and Zhong Chen, Multilingual feature selection for a human sentence processing model. Talk given at The 5th Midwest Computational Linguistics Colloquium (MCLC) , Michigan State University, May 10-11.
• 2008. Marisa F. Boston, Zhong Chen and John T. Hale, Modeling Garden paths in a statistical dependency parser: Chinese, German, and English, Poster presentation at The 21st CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing . The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, March 13-15.

Teaching