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Roger Levy. Probabilistic Models in the Study of Language.


Publications

In Press

Jennifer Hu and Roger P. Levy. In Press. Prompting is not a substitute for probability measurements in large language models .  Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. [BibTeX|arXiv]

Jon Gauthier and Roger P. Levy. In Press. The neural dynamics of word recognition and integration.  Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. [BibTeX|arXiv]

Theo X. Olausson, Alex Gu, Ben Lipkin, Cedegao E. Zhang, Armando Solar-Lezama, Joshua B. Tenenbaum and Roger P. Levy. In Press. LINC: A neuro-symbolic approach for logical reasoning by combining language models with first-order logic provers.  Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. [BibTeX]

Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Tiago Pimentel, Clara Meister, Ryan Cotterell and Roger P. Levy. In Press. Testing the Predictions of Surprisal Theory in 11 Languages.  Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics. [BibTeX|arXiv]

Carina Kauf, Greta Tuckute, Roger P. Levy, Jacob Andreas and Evelina Fedorenko. In Press. Lexical semantic content, not syntactic structure, is the main contributor to ANN–brain similarity of fMRI responses in the language network.  Neurobiology of Language. [BibTeX|arXiv]

Jennifer Hu, Roger P. Levy, Sebastian Schuster and Judith Degen. In Press. Expectations over unspoken alternatives predict pragmatic inferences.  Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics. [BibTeX|arXiv]

Tiago Pimentel, Clara Meister, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Roger P. Levy and Ryan Cotterell. In Press. On the Effect of Anticipation on Reading Times.  Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics. [BibTeX]

Ethan Wilcox, Richard Futrell and Roger P. Levy. In Press. Using Computational Models to Test Syntactic Learnability.  Linguistic Inquiry. [PDF|DOI|BibTeX]

2023

Stephan C. Meylan, Ruthe Foushee, Nicole H. Wong, Elika Bergelson and Roger P. Levy. 2023. How adults understand what young children say.  Nature Human Behaviour. [DOI|BibTeX|abstract]

Koustuv Sinha, Jon Gauthier, Aaron Mueller, Kanishka Misra, Keren Fuentes, Roger Levy and Adina Williams. 2023. Language model acceptability judgements are not always robust to context.  Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pp. 6043–6063. [BibTeX|abstract|arXiv]

Songlin Yang, Roger Levy and Yoon Kim. 2023. Unsupervised Discontinuous Constituency Parsing with Mildly Context-Sensitive Grammars.  Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pp. 5747–5766. [BibTeX|abstract]

Kinan Martin, Jon Gauthier, Canaan Breiss and Roger P. Levy. 2023. Probing Self-supervised Speech Models for Phonetic and Phonemic Information: A Case Study in Aspiration.  Proceedings of Interspeech, pp. 251–255. [BibTeX|arXiv]

Yevgeni Berzak and Roger P. Levy. 2023. Eye Movement Traces of Linguistic Knowledge in Native and Non-Native Reading.  Open Mind 7:179–196. [DOI|BibTeX]

Thomas Hikaru Clark, Clara Meister, Tiago Pimentel, Michael Hahn, Ryan Cotterell, Richard Futrell and Roger P. Levy. 2023. A Cross-Linguistic Pressure for Uniform Information Density in Word Order.  Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics 11:1048–1065. [DOI|BibTeX]

Veronica Boyce and Roger P. Levy. 2023. A-maze of Natural Stories: Comprehension and surprisal in the Maze task.  Glossa Psycholinguistics 2(1):1–34. [PDF|DOI|BibTeX]

2022

Emmy Liu, Michael Henry Tessler, Nicole Dubosh, Katherine Hiller and Roger Levy. 2022. Assessing Group-level Gender Bias in Professional Evaluations: The Case of Medical Student End-of-Shift Feedback.  Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing (GeBNLP), pp. 86–93. [DOI|BibTeX|abstract]

Tiwalayo Eisape, Vineet Gangireddy, Roger P. Levy and Yoon Kim. 2022. Probing for Incremental Parse States in Autoregressive Language Models.  Findings of EMNLP 2022. [PDF|BibTeX]

Mycal Tucker, Roger P. Levy, Julie Shah and Noga Zaslavsky. 2022. Trading off Utility, Informativeness, and Complexity in Emergent Communication.  Proceedings of NeurIPS 2022. [PDF|BibTeX]

Michael Hahn, Richard Futrell, Roger P. Levy and Edward Gibson. 2022. A Resource-Rational Model of Human Processing of Recursive Linguistic Structure.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119(43):e2122602119. [DOI|BibTeX]

Peng Qian, Edward Gibson and Roger P. Levy. 2022. Rational Inference from Number Agreement Mismatch.  Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [BibTeX]

Clara Meister, Tiago Pimentel, Thomas Clark, Ryan Cotterell and Roger Levy. 2022. Analyzing Wrap-Up Effects through an Information-Theoretic Lens.  Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 20–28. [PDF|BibTeX|abstract]

Peng Qian and Roger Levy. 2022. Flexible Generation from Fragmentary Linguistic Input.  Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 8176–8196. [PDF|BibTeX|abstract]

Thomas Hikaru Clark, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Edward Gibson and Roger P. Levy. 2022. Evidence for Availability Effects on Speaker Choice in the Russian Comparative Alternation.  Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [PDF|BibTeX]

Irene Zhou, Jennifer Hu, Roger P. Levy and Noga Zaslavsky. 2022. Teasing apart models of pragmatics using optimal reference game design.  Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [PDF|BibTeX]

Yevgeni Berzak, Chie Nakamura, Amelia Smith, Emily Weng, Boris Katz, Suzanne Flynn and Roger Levy. 2022. CELER: A 365-Participant Corpus of Eye Movements in L1 and L2 English Reading.  Open Mind. [PDF|DOI|BibTeX|abstract]

Mycal Tucker, Tiwalayo Eisape, Peng Qian, Roger P. Levy and Julie Shah. 2022. When Does Syntax Mediate Neural Language Model Performance? Evidence from Dropout Probes.  Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. [PDF|BibTeX]

Julian Jara-Ettinger, Roger P. Levy, Jeanette Sakel, Tomas Huanca and Edward Gibson. 2022. The origins of the shape bias: Evidence from the Tsimane’.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 151(10):2437–2447. [PDF|BibTeX]

2021

Yiwen Wang, Jennifer Hu, Roger Levy and Peng Qian. 2021. Controlled Evaluation of Grammatical Knowledge in Mandarin Chinese Language Models.  Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pp. 5604–5620. [PDF|DOI|BibTeX|abstract]

Clara Meister, Tiago Pimentel, Patrick Haller, Lena Jäger, Ryan Cotterell and Roger Levy. 2021. Revisiting the Uniform Information Density Hypothesis.  Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pp. 963–980. [PDF|DOI|BibTeX|abstract]

Helena Aparicio, Curtis Chen, Roger Levy and Elizabeth Coppock. 2021. Granularity in the Semantics of Comparison.  Semantics and Linguistic Theory, pp. 550–569. [PDF|BibTeX]

Stephanie L. Smith, Beatha Nyirandagijimana, Janvier Hakizimana, Roger P. Levy, Robert Bienvenu, Anathalie Uwamwezi, Octavien Hakizimfura, Eugenie Uwimana, Priya Kundu, Egide Mpanumusingo, Alphonse Nshimyiryo, Christian Rusangwa, Fredrick Kateera, Hildegarde Mukasakindi and Giuseppe J. Raviola. 2021. Evaluating the delivery of Problem Management Plus in primary care settings in rural Rwanda: A study protocol using a pragmatic randomized hybrid type 1 effectiveness-implementation design.  BMJ Open 11:e054630. [PDF|DOI|BibTeX]

Jennifer Hu, Roger Levy and Noga Zaslavsky. 2021. Scalable pragmatic communication via self-supervision.  Proceedings of the 2021 ICML Workshop on Self-Supervised Learning for Reasoning and Perception. [BibTeX]

Jiayuan Mao, Freda H. Shi, Jiajun Wu, Roger P. Levy and Joshua B. Tenenbaum. 2021. Grammar-Based Grounded Lexicon Learning.  Proceedings of NeurIPS 2021. [PDF|BibTeX]

Leila Wehbe, Idan Asher Blank, Cory Shain, Richard Futrell, Roger Levy, Titus von der Malsburg, Nathaniel Smith, Edward Gibson and Evelina Fedorenko. 2021. Incremental Language Comprehension Difficulty Predicts Activity in the Language Network but Not the Multiple Demand Network.  Cerebral Cortex. [DOI|BibTeX|abstract]

Mycal Tucker, Peng Qian and Roger P. Levy. 2021. What if This Modified That? Syntactic Interventions with Counterfactual Embeddings.  Findings of the Association for Computationa Linguistics. [PDF|BibTeX]

Ethan Wilcox, Pranali Vani and Roger P. Levy. 2021. A Targeted Assessment of Incremental Processing in Neural Language Models and Humans.  Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. [PDF|BibTeX]

Peng Qian, Tahira Naseem, Roger Levy and Ramón Fernandez Astudillo. 2021. Structural Guidance for Transformer Language Models.  Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. [PDF|BibTeX]

Pranali Vani, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox and Roger P. Levy. 2021. Using the Interpolated Maze task to Assess Incremental Processing in English Relative Clauses.  Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [PDF|BibTeX]

Yevgeni Berzak and Roger P. Levy. 2021. Eye Movement Traces of Linguistic Knowledge.  Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [PDF|BibTeX]

Robert Chen, Roger P. Levy and Tiwalayo Eisape. 2021. On Factors Influencing Typing Time: Analyzing TypeRacer’s Massive Open Access Dataset.  Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [PDF|BibTeX]

Stephan C. Meylan, Ruthe Foushee, Elika Bergelson and Roger P. Levy. 2021. Child-directed Listening: How Caregiver Inference Enables Children’s Early Verbal Communication.  Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [PDF|BibTeX]

Jennifer Hu, Noga Zaslavsky and Roger Levy. 2021. Competition from novel features drives scalar inferences in reference games.  Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [PDF|BibTeX]

Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Roger P. Levy and Kathryn Davidson. 2021. Which Presuppositions are Subject to Contextual Felicity Constraints?.  Proceedings of the 31st Conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory, pp. 345–364. Dreier, Nicole and Kwon, Chloe and Darnell, Thomas and Starr, John (ed). [DOI|BibTeX]

2020

Tristan Thrush, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox and Roger P. Levy. 2020. Investigating Novel Verb Learning in BERT: Selectional Preference Classes and Alternation-Based Syntactic Generalization.  Proceedings of the Third BlackboxNLP Workshop on Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP, pp. 265–275. [PDF|BibTeX]

Tiwalayo Eisape, Noga Zaslavsky and Roger P. Levy. 2020. Cloze Distillation Improves Psychometric Predictive Power.  Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), pp. 609–619. [PDF|BibTeX]

Jonathan Malmaud, Roger P. Levy and Yevgeni Berzak. 2020. Bridging Information-Seeking Human Gaze and Machine Reading Comprehension.  Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), pp. 142–152. [PDF|BibTeX|arXiv]

Ethan Wilcox, Peng Qian, Richard Futrell, Ryosuke Kohita, Roger P. Levy and Miguel Ballesteros. 2020. Structural Supervision Improves Few-Shot Learning and Syntactic Generalization in Neural Language Models.  Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. [PDF|BibTeX]

Meilin Zhan, Roger Levy and Andrew Kehler. 2020. Pronoun Interpretation in Mandarin Chinese follows principles of Bayesian inference.  PLoS One 15(8):1–42. [PDF|DOI|BibTeX]

Matthias Hofer, Tessa Verhoef and Roger P. Levy. 2020. Hierarchical Generalizations Support Systematicity Inferences in the Lexicon.  Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 2398–2404. [PDF|BibTeX]

Abigail L. Tenenbaum, Mika Braginsky and Roger P. Levy. 2020. Integrating Semantics Into Developmental Models of Morphology Learning.  Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 1700–1706. [PDF|BibTeX]

Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Jon Gauthier, Jennifer Hu, Peng Qian and Roger P. Levy. 2020. On the Predictive Power of Neural Language Models for Human Real-Time Comprehension Behavior.  Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 1707–1713. [PDF|BibTeX]

Michael Henry Tessler, Polina Tsvilodub, Jesse Snedeker and Roger P. Levy. 2020. Informational goals, sentence structure, and comparison class inference.  Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 537–543. [PDF|BibTeX]

Stephan Meylan, Roger P. Levy and Elika Bergelson. 2020. Children’s Expressive and Receptive Knowledge of the English Regular Plural.  Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 2270–2276. [PDF|BibTeX]

Tiwalayo Eisape, Roger P. Levy, Joshua B. Tenenbaum and Noga Zaslavsky. 2020. Toward Human-like Object Naming in Artificial Neural Systems.  Proceedings of the ICLR Workshop on Bridging AI and Cognitive Science (BAICS). [PDF|BibTeX]

Jon Gauthier, Jennifer Hu, Ethan Wilcox, Peng Qian and Roger P. Levy. 2020. SyntaxGym: An Online Platform for Targeted Evaluation of Language Models.  Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 70–76. [PDF|BibTeX]

Yevgeni Berzak, Jonathan Malmaud and Roger P. Levy. 2020. STARC: Structured Annotations for Reading Comprehension.  Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 5726–5735. [PDF|BibTeX]

Jennifer Hu, Jon Gauthier, Peng Qian, Ethan Wilcox and Roger P. Levy. 2020. A Systematic Assessment of Syntactic Generalization in Neural Language Models.  Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 1725–1744. [PDF|BibTeX]

Richard Futrell, Roger P. Levy and Edward Gibson. 2020. Dependency Locality as an explanatory principle for word order.  Language 96(2):371–412. [PDF|DOI|BibTeX]

Richard Futrell, Edward Gibson and Roger P. Levy. 2020. Lossy-Context Surprisal: An information-theoretic model of memory effects in sentence processing.  Cognitive Science 44:1–54. [PDF|DOI|BibTeX]

Rachel Ryskin, Roger P. Levy and Evelina Fedorenko. 2020. Do domain-general executive resources play a role in linguistic prediction? Re-evaluation of the evidence and a path forward.  Neuropsychologia 136:1–12. [DOI|BibTeX]

Jennifer Hu, Sherry Yong Chen and Roger P. Levy. 2020. A closer look at the performance of neural language models on reflexive anaphor licensing.  Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL) 2020, pp. 382–392. [PDF|BibTeX]

Veronica Boyce, Richard Futrell and Roger Levy. 2020. Maze Made Easy: Better and easier measurement of incremental processing difficulty.  Journal of Memory and Language 111:1–13. [DOI|BibTeX]

Titus von der Malsburg, Till Poppels and Roger Levy. 2020. Implicit gender bias in linguistic descriptions for expected events: The cases of the 2016 US and 2017 UK elections.  Psychological Science. [DOI|BibTeX]

Klinton Bicknell, Roger Levy and Keith Rayner. 2020. Ongoing cognitive processing influences precise eye movement targets in reading.  Psychological Science. [DOI|BibTeX]

Noga Zaslavsky, Jennifer Hu and Roger P. Levy. 2020. A Rate–Distortion view of human pragmatic reasoning. arXiv:cs.CL/2005.06641v1. [BibTeX|arXiv]

2019

Jon Gauthier and Roger P. Levy. 2019. Linking artificial and human neural representations of language.  Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, pp. 529–539. [PDF|BibTeX]

Aixiu An, Peng Qian, Ethan Wilcox and Roger P. Levy. 2019. Representation of Constituents in Neural Language Models: Coordination Phrase as a Case Study.  Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, pp. 2888–2899. [PDF|BibTeX]

Ethan Wilcox, Roger P. Levy and Richard Futrell. 2019. Hierarchical Representation in Neural Language Models: Suppression and Recovery of Expectations.  Proceedings of the Second BlackboxNLP workshop. [PDF|BibTeX|arXiv]

Peng Qian, Luke Hewitt, Joshua B. Tenenbaum and Roger P. Levy. 2019. Inferring Structured Visual Concepts from Minimal Data.  Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 2620–2626. [PDF|BibTeX]

Ethan Wilcox, Roger P. Levy and Richard Futrell. 2019. What Syntactic Structures Block Dependencies in RNN Language Models?.  Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 1199–1205. [PDF|BibTeX|arXiv]

Meilin Zhan and Roger P. Levy. 2019. Availability-Based Production Predicts Speakers’ Real-time Choices of Mandarin Classifiers.  Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 1268–1274. [PDF|BibTeX|arXiv]

Michael Henry Tessler, Karen Gu and Roger P. Levy. 2019. Incremental understanding of conjunctive generic sentences.  Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 2954–2960. [PDF|DOI|BibTeX]

Matthias Hofer and Roger P. Levy. 2019. Iconicity and Structure in the Emergence of Combinatoriality.  Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 442–448. [PDF|DOI|BibTeX]

Jon Gauthier, Roger P. Levy and Joshua B. Tenenbaum. 2019. A rational model of syntactic bootstrapping.  Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 1815–1821. [PDF|BibTeX]

Nabeel Gillani and Roger Levy. 2019. Simple dynamic word embeddings to map perceptions in the public sphere.  Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science, pp. 94–99. [PDF|BibTeX|arXiv]

Ethan Wilcox, Peng Qian, Richard Futrell, Miguel Ballesteros and Roger Levy. 2019. Structural Supervision Improves Learning of Non-Local Grammatical Dependencies.  Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pp. 3302–3312. [PDF|BibTeX|arXiv]

Richard Futrell, Ethan Wilcox, Takashi Morita, Peng Qian, Miguel Ballesteros and Roger Levy. 2019. Neural language models as psycholinguistic subjects: Representations of syntactic state.  Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pp. 32–42. [PDF|BibTeX|arXiv]

Edward Gibson, Richard Futrell, Steven Piantadosi, Isabelle Dautriche, Kyle Mahowald, Leon Bergen and Roger Levy. 2019. How Efficiency Shapes Human Language.  Trends in Cognitive Sciences 23(5):389–407. [DOI|BibTeX]

Richard Futrell and Roger P. Levy. 2019. Do RNNs learn human-like abstract word order preferences?.  Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL) 2019, pp. 50–59. [PDF|DOI|BibTeX]

Richard N. Aslin and Roger P. Levy. 2019. Cognitive Science Honors the Memory of Jeffrey Elman.  Open Mind 3:23–30. [DOI|BibTeX]

2018

Roger Levy. 2018. Using R formulae to test for main effects in the presence of higher-order interactions. arXiv:stat.ME/1405.2094v2. [PDF|BibTeX|arXiv]

Ethan Wilcox, Roger P. Levy, Takashi Morita and Richard Futrell. 2018. What do RNN Language Models Learn about Filler–Gap Dependencies?.  Proceedings of the Workshop on Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP. [PDF|BibTeX]

Erik Kaestner, Adam Milton Morgan, Joseph Snider, Meilin Zhan, Xi Jiang, Roger Levy, Victor S. Ferreira, Thomas Thesen and Eric Halgren. 2018. Toward a database of intracranial electrophysiology during natural language presentation.  Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. [DOI|BibTeX]

Judy Shen, Matthias Hofer, Bjarke Felbo and Roger Levy. 2018. Comparing Models of Associative Meaning: An Empirical Investigation of Reference in Simple Language Games.  Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), pp. 292–301. [PDF|BibTeX]

Jon Gauthier, Roger P. Levy and Joshua B. Tenenbaum. 2018. Word learning and the acquisition of syntactic–semantic overhypotheses.  Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 1699–1704. [PDF|BibTeX]

Anna Ivanova and Roger Levy. 2018. Pragmatic Inference of Intended Referents from Binomial Word Order.  Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 1865–1870. [PDF|BibTeX]

Roger P. Levy. 2018. Communicative Efficiency, Uniform Information Density, and the Rational Speech Act Theory.  Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 684–689. [PDF|BibTeX|Slides]

Meilin Zhan and Roger Levy. 2018. Comparing Theories of Speaker Choice Using a Model of Classifier Production in Mandarin Chinese.  Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pp. 1997–2005. [PDF|BibTeX]

Yevgeni Berzak, Boris Katz and Roger Levy. 2018. Assessing Language Proficiency from Eye Movements in Reading.  Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pp. 1986–1996. [PDF|BibTeX]

Edward Gibson, Julian Jara-Ettinger, Roger P. Levy and Steven T. Piantadosi. 2018. The use of a computer display exaggerates the connection between exact and approximate number ability in remote populations.  Open Mind 2(1):37–46. [DOI|BibTeX]

2017

Richard Futrell, Roger Levy and Edward Gibson. 2017. Generalizing dependency distance: Comment on “Dependency distance: A new perspective on syntactic patterns in natural languages” by Haitao Liu et al..  Physics of Life Reviews 21:197–199. [BibTeX]

Matthias Hofer and Roger Levy. 2017. Modeling Sources of Uncertainty in Spoken Word Learning.  Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 550–555. [PDF|BibTeX]

Richard Futrell and Roger Levy. 2017. Noisy-context surprisal as a human sentence processing cost model.  Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), pp. 688–698. [PDF|BibTeX]

Stephan Meylan, Michael C. Frank, Brandon C. Roy and Roger Levy. 2017. The emergence of an abstract grammatical category in children’s early speech.  Psychological Science 28(2):181–192. [PDF|DOI|BibTeX]

Eva Wittenberg and Roger Levy. 2017. If You Want A Quick Kiss, Make It Count: How Choice Of Syntactic Construction Affects Event Construal.  Journal of Memory and Language 94:254–271. [PDF|DOI|BibTeX]

Edward Gibson, Steven T. Piantadosi and Roger Levy. 2017. Post Hoc Analysis Decisions Drive the Reported Reading Time Effects in Hackl, Koster-Hale & Varvoutis (2012).  Journal of Semantics 34:539–546. [BibTeX]

Mallorie Leinenger, Mark Myslin, Keith Rayner and Roger Levy. 2017. Do resource constraints affect lexical processing? Evidence from eye movements.  Journal of Memory and Language 93:82–103. [PDF|DOI|BibTeX]

Julian Jara-Ettinger, Steve Piantadosi, Elizabeth S. Spelke, Roger Levy and Edward Gibson. 2017. Mastery of the logic of natural numbers is not the result of mastery of counting: Evidence from late counters.  Developmental Science 20(6):e12459. [DOI|BibTeX]

Richard Futrell, Roger Levy and Matthew Dryer. 2017. A Statistical Comparison of Some Theories of NP Word Order. arXiv:cs.CL/1709.02783v1. [BibTeX|arXiv]

2016

Gabriel Doyle and Roger Levy. 2016. Data-driven learning of symbolic constraints for a log-linear model in a phonological setting.  Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), pp. 2217-2226. [PDF|BibTeX]

E. Darı́o Gutiérrez, Roger Levy and Benjamin Bergen. 2016. Finding Non-Arbitrary Form-Meaning Systematicity Using String-Metric Learning for Kernel Regression.  Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 2379–2388. [PDF|BibTeX]

Meilin Zhan, Roger Levy and Andrew Kehler. 2016. Bayesian Pronoun Interpretation in Mandarin Chinese.  Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 2393–2398. [PDF|BibTeX]

Till Poppels and Roger Levy. 2016. Structure-sensitive Noise Inference: Comprehenders Expect Exchange Errors.  Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 378–383. [PDF|BibTeX]

Emily Morgan and Roger Levy. 2016. Frequency-dependent regularization in iterated learning.  The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference (EVOLANG11). Roberts, S.G. and Cuskley, C. and McCrohon, L. and Barceló-Coblijn, L. and Feher, O. and Verhoef, T. (ed). [PDF|BibTeX]

Christopher Potts, Daniel Lassiter, Roger Levy and Michael C. Frank. 2016. Embedded Implicatures as Pragmatic Inferences under Compositional Lexical Uncertainty.  Journal of Semantics 33(4):755–802. [PDF|DOI|BibTeX]

Bożena Pająk, Sarah C. Creel and Roger Levy. 2016. Difficulty in learning similar-sounding words: a developmental stage or a general property of learning?.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition 42(9):1377–1399. [PDF|DOI|BibTeX]

Mark Myslín and Roger Levy. 2016. Comprehension priming as rational expectation for repetition: Evidence from syntactic processing.  Cognition 147:29–56. [PDF|DOI|BibTeX]

Leon Bergen, Roger Levy and Noah Goodman. 2016. Pragmatic Reasoning through Semantic Inference.  Semantics and Pragmatics 9(20). [DOI|BibTeX]

Emily Morgan and Roger Levy. 2016. Abstract knowledge versus direct experience in processing of binomial expressions.  Cognition 157:384–402. [PDF|DOI|BibTeX]

2015

Till Poppels and Roger Levy. 2015. Resolving quantity and informativeness implicature in indefinite reference.  Proceedings of the 2015 Amsterdam Colloquium: The Workshop on Reasoning in Natural Language, pp. 313–322. Zuidema, Willem and Szymanik, Jakub (ed). [PDF|BibTeX]

Justine T. Kao, Roger Levy and Noah D. Goodman. 2015. A Computational Model of Linguistic Humor in Puns.  Cognitive Science. [PDF|DOI|BibTeX]

Christopher Potts and Roger Levy. 2015. Negotiating Lexical Uncertainty and Speaker Expertise with Disjunction.  Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. [PDF|BibTeX]

Emily Morgan and Roger Levy. 2015. Modeling idiosyncratic preferences: How generative knowledge and expression frequency jointly determine language structure.  Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 1649–1654. [PDF|BibTeX]

Thomas Wasow, Roger Levy, Robin Melnick, Hanzhi Zhu and Tom Juzek. 2015. Processing, Prosody, and Optional to.  In Frazier, Lyn and Gibson, Edward, editors. Explicit and Implicit Prosody in Sentence Processing (pp. 133–158). Springer. [PDF|BibTeX]

Mark Myslín and Roger Levy. 2015. Codeswitching and predictability of meaning in discourse.  Language 91(4):871–905. [PDF|DOI|BibTeX]

2014

Roger Levy. 2014. Using R formulae to test for main effects in the presence of higher-order interactions. arXiv:stat.ME/1405.2094v1. [PDF|BibTeX|arXiv]

Bożena Pająk and Roger Levy. 2014. The role of abstraction in non-native speech perception.  Journal of Phonetics 46:147–160. [PDF|DOI|BibTeX]

Gabriel Doyle, Klinton Bicknell and Roger Levy. 2014. Nonparametric Learning of Phonological Constraints in Optimality Theory.  Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 1094–1103. [PDF|BibTeX]

Elizabeth R. Schotter, Klinton Bicknell, Ian Howard, Roger Levy and Keith Rayner. 2014. Task effects reveal cognitive flexibility responding to frequency and predictability: Evidence from eye movements in reading and proofreading.  Cognition 131(1):1–27. [PDF|DOI|BibTeX]

Jose Costa Pereira, Emanuele Coviello, Gabriel Doyle, Nikhil Rasiwasia, Gert Lanckriet, Roger Levy and Nuno Vasconcelos. 2014. On the Role of Correlation and Abstraction in Cross-Modal Multimedia Retrieval.  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 36(3):521–535. [PDF|DOI|BibTeX]

2013

Bożena Pająk, Klinton Bicknell and Roger Levy. 2013. A model of generalization in distributional learning of phonetic categories.  Proceedings of the 4th Annual Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, pp. 11–20. [PDF|BibTeX]

Roger Levy and Edward Gibson. 2013. Surprisal, the PDC, and the primary locus of processing difficulty in relative clauses.  Frontiers in Psychology 4(229). [PDF|DOI|BibTeX]

Stephan Meylan, Michael C. Frank and Roger Levy. 2013. Modeling the Development of Determiner Productivity in Children’s Early Speech.  Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 3032–3037. [PDF|BibTeX]

Roger Levy. 2013. Memory and Surprisal in Human Sentence Comprehension.  In van Gompel, Roger P. G., editors. Sentence Processing (pp. 78–114). Hove: Psychology Press. [PDF|BibTeX]

Roger Levy and Frank Keller. 2013. Expectation and Locality Effects in German Verb-final Structures.  Journal of Memory and Language 68(2):199–222. [PDF|DOI|BibTeX]

Dale J. Barr, Roger Levy, Christoph Scheepers and Harry J. Tily. 2013. Random effects structure for confirmatory hypothesis testing: Keep it maximal.  Journal of Memory and Language 68(3):255–278. [PDF|DOI|BibTeX]

Roger Levy, Evelina Fedorenko and Edward Gibson. 2013. The syntactic complexity of Russian relative clauses.  Journal of Memory and Language 69(4):461–495. [PDF|DOI|BibTeX]

Nathaniel J. Smith and Roger Levy. 2013. The effect of word predictability on reading time is logarithmic.  Cognition 128(3):302–319. [PDF|DOI|BibTeX]

Klinton Bicknell, Emily Higgins, Roger Levy and Keith Rayner. 2013. Evidence for cognitively controlled saccade targeting in reading.  Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 197–202. [PDF|BibTeX]

Justine Kao, Roger Levy and Noah Goodman. 2013. The Funny Thing about Incongruity: A Computational Model of Humor in Puns.  Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 728–733. [PDF|BibTeX]

Gabriel Doyle and Roger Levy. 2013. Combining multiple information types in Bayesian word segmentation.  Proceedings of the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pp. 117–126. [PDF|BibTeX]

2012

Bożena Pająk, Sarah C. Creel and Roger Levy. 2012. Can native-language perceptual bias facilitate learning words in a new language?.  Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 2174–2179. [PDF|BibTeX]

Leon Bergen, Roger Levy and Edward Gibson. 2012. Verb omission errors: Evidence of rational processing of noisy language inputs.  Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 1320–1325. [PDF|BibTeX]

Leon Bergen, Noah D. Goodman and Roger Levy. 2012. That’s what she (could have) said: How alternative utterances affect language use.  Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 120–125. [PDF|BibTeX]

Klinton Bicknell and Roger Levy. 2012. Why long words take longer to read: the role of uncertainty about word length.  Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, pp. 21–30. [PDF|BibTeX]

Victoria Fossum and Roger Levy. 2012. Sequential vs. Hierarchical Syntactic Models of Human Incremental Sentence Processing.  Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, pp. 61–69. [PDF|BibTeX]

Klinton Bicknell and Roger Levy. 2012. Word predictability and frequency effects in a rational model of reading.  Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 126–131. [PDF|BibTeX]

Klinton Bicknell and Roger Levy. 2012. The utility of modeling word identification from visual input within models of eye movements in reading.  Visual Cognition 20(4–5):422–456. [PDF|DOI|BibTeX]

Roger Levy, Evelina Fedorenko, Mara Breen and Ted Gibson. 2012. The Processing of Extraposed Structures in English.  Cognition 122(1):12–36. [PDF|DOI|BibTeX]

Bożena Pająk and Roger Levy. 2012. Distributional Learning of L2 Phonological Categories by Listeners with Different Language Backgrounds.  Proceedings of the 36th Boston University Conference on Language Development, pp. 400–413. Biller, Alia and Chung, Esther and Kimball, Amelia (ed). [PDF|BibTeX]

2011

Klinton Bicknell and Roger Levy. 2011. Why readers regress to previous words: A statistical analysis.  Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 931–936. [PDF|BibTeX]

Roger Levy. 2011. Probabilistic Linguistic Expectations, Uncertain Input, and Implications for Eye Movements in Reading.  Studies of Psychology and Behavior 9(1):52–63. [PDF|BibTeX]

Roger Levy and Hal Daumé III. 2011. Computational methods are invaluable for typology, but the models must match the questions: Commentary on Dunn et al. (2011).  Linguistic Typology 15(2):393–399. [PDF|DOI|BibTeX]

Bożena Pająk and Roger Levy. 2011. Phonological Generalization from Distributional Evidence.  Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [PDF|BibTeX]

Roger Levy. 2011. Integrating surprisal and uncertain-input models in online sentence comprehension: formal techniques and empirical results.  Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pp. 1055–1065. [PDF|BibTeX]

Randy West, Y. Albert Park and Roger Levy. 2011. Bilingual Random Walk Models for Automated Grammar Correction of ESL Author-Produced Text.  Proceedings of the Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, pp. 170–179. [PDF|BibTeX]

Y. Albert Park and Roger Levy. 2011. Automated Whole Sentence Grammar Correction Using a Noisy Channel Model.  Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pp. 934–944. [PDF|BibTeX]

Nathaniel J. Smith and Roger Levy. 2011. Cloze but no cigar: The complex relationship between Cloze, corpus, and subjective probabilities in language processing.  Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 1637–1642. [PDF|BibTeX]

Hannah Rohde, Roger Levy and Andrew Kehler. 2011. Anticipating Explanations in Relative Clause Processing.  Cognition 118(3):339–358. [PDF|DOI|BibTeX]

Bożena Pająk and Roger Levy. 2011. How abstract are phonological representations? Evidence from distributional learning.  Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistic Society. [PDF|BibTeX]

2010

Rebecca Colavin, Roger Levy and Sharon Rose. 2010. Modeling OCP-Place with the Maximum Entropy Phonotactic Learner.  Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistic Society. [PDF|BibTeX]

Nikhil Rasiwasia, Jose M. Costa Pereira, Emanuele Coviello, Gabriel Doyle, Gert R. G. Lanckriet, Roger Levy and Nuno Vasconcelos. 2010. A New Approach To Cross-Modal Multimedia Retrieval.  Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia, pp. 251–260. [PDF|BibTeX]

Klinton Bicknell and Roger Levy. 2010. Rational eye movements in reading combining uncertainty about previous words with contextual probability.  Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 1142–1147. [PDF|BibTeX]

Klinton Bicknell and Roger Levy. 2010. A Rational Model of Eye Movement Control in Reading.  Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 1168–1178. [PDF|BibTeX]

Nathaniel J. Smith and Roger Levy. 2010. Fixation durations in first-pass reading reflect uncertainty about word identity.  Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 1313–1318. [PDF|BibTeX]

Nathaniel J. Smith, Wen-Hsuan Chan and Roger Levy. 2010. Is perceptual acuity asymmetric in isolated word recognition? Evidence from an ideal-observer reverse-engineering approach.  Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 1483–1488. [PDF|BibTeX]

2009

Roger Levy, Klinton Bicknell, Tim Slattery and Keith Rayner. 2009. Eye Movement Evidence that Readers Maintain and Act on Uncertainty about Past Linguistic Input.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106(50):21086–21090. [PDF|DOI|BibTeX]

Klinton Bicknell, Roger Levy and Vera Demberg. 2009. Correcting the incorrect: Local coherence effects modeled with prior belief update.  Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, pp. 13–24. [PDF|BibTeX]

Y. Albert Park and Roger Levy. 2009. Minimal-length linearizations for mildly context-sensitive dependency trees.  Proceedings of the 10th Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT) conference, pp. 335–343. [PDF|BibTeX]

Roger Levy, Florencia Reali and Thomas L. Griffiths. 2009. Modeling the effects of memory on human online sentence processing with particle filters.  Proceedings of the 22nd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS). [PDF|BibTeX]

Klinton Bicknell and Roger Levy. 2009. A model of local coherence effects in human sentence processing as consequences of updates from bottom-up prior to posterior beliefs.  Proceedings of the 10th Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT) conference, pp. 665–673. [PDF|BibTeX]

2008

Roger Levy. 2008. Expectation-Based Syntactic Comprehension.  Cognition 106(3):1126–1177. [PDF|DOI|BibTeX]

Nathaniel J. Smith and Roger Levy. 2008. Optimal Processing Times in Reading: a Formal Model and Empirical Investigation.  Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 595–600. [PDF|BibTeX]

Roger Levy. 2008. A noisy-channel model of rational human sentence comprehension under uncertain input.  Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pp. 234–243. [PDF|BibTeX]

Gabriel Doyle and Roger Levy. 2008. Environment Prototypicality in Syntactic Alternation.  Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. [PDF|BibTeX]

2007

Roger Levy and T. Florian Jaeger. 2007. Speakers Optimize Information Density Through Syntactic Reduction.  Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS). [PDF|BibTeX]

2006

Sarah Bunin Benor and Roger Levy. 2006. The Chicken or the Egg? A Probabilistic Analysis of English Binomials.  Language 82(2):233–278. [PDF|DOI|BibTeX]

Roger Levy and Galen Andrew. 2006. Tregex and Tsurgeon: tools for querying and manipulating tree data structures.  Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, pp. 2231–2234. [PDF|BibTeX]

Owen Rambow, David Chiang, Mona Diab, Nizar Habash, Rebecca Hwa, Khalil Sima’an, Vincent Lacey, Roger Levy, Carol Nichols and Safiullah Shareef. 2006. Parsing Arabic Dialects. Technical Report, Johns Hopkins University. [PDF|BibTeX]

2005

Roger Levy. 2005. Probabilistic Models of Word Order and Syntactic Discontinuity.  Ph.D. Dissertation, Stanford University. [PDF|BibTeX]

2004

Roger Levy and Christopher Manning. 2004. Deep dependencies from context-free statistical parsers: correcting the surface dependency approximation.  Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. [PDF|BibTeX]

Iddo Lev, Bill MacCartney, Christopher Manning and Roger Levy. 2004. Solving Logic Puzzles: From Robust Processing to Precise Semantics.  Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Text Meaning and Interpretation, pp. 9–16. [BibTeX]

2003

Roger Levy and Christopher Manning. 2003. Is it harder to parse Chinese, or the Chinese Treebank?.  Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. [PDF|BibTeX]

Cynthia Thompson, Roger Levy and Christopher Manning. 2003. A Generative Model for FrameNet Semantic Role Labeling.  Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 397–408. [PDF|BibTeX]

Roger Levy and David Oshima. 2003. Non-transitive information flow in Japanese noun-classifier matching.  Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, pp. 257–277. Müller, Stefan (ed). [PDF|BibTeX]

2002

Roger Levy. 2002. The Statistical Distribution of English Coordinate Noun Phrases: Parallelism and Weight Effects. Presented at NWAV 31. [BibTeX]

Kenichi Aoki, Daisuke Satoh and Roger Levy. 2002. Theoretical aspects of brother–sister mating in birds and mammals.  In Aoki, Kenichi and Akazawa, Takeru, editors. Human mate choice and prehistoric marital networks (pp. 5–15). Nichibunken, Kyoto. [BibTeX]

2001

Roger Levy. 2001. Feature Indeterminacy and the Coordination of Unlikes in a Totally Well-Typed HPSG. Manuscript, Stanford University. [PDF|BibTeX]

Roger Levy and Carl Pollard. 2001. Coordination and Neutralization in HPSG.  Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, pp. 221–234. Eynde, Frank Van and Hellan, Lars and Beermann, Dorothee (ed). [PDF|BibTeX]


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