Proceedings of the 2014 ACL Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and

81 Pages·2014·1.94 MB·English

ACL 2014
The Fifth Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and
Computational Linguistics (CMCL)
Proceedings of the Workshop
June 26, 2014
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
(cid:13)c 2014TheAssociationforComputationalLinguistics
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Introduction
Thepapersintheseproceedingswerepresentedatthe5thannualworkshoponCognitiveModelingand
Computational Linguistics (CMCL), held in Baltimore, Maryland on June 26th, 2014. CMCL-2014
followedinthetraditionofearlierCMCLmeetings,providingavenueforresearchinmathematicaland
computational psycholinguistics. We solicited papers on a broad spectrum of topics which spanned the
formal modeling of language representation, development, and processing, and were very pleased to
receive 17 submissions this year. The program below includes 8 of these papers which were selected
for final presentation at the workshop. We would like to thank all submitting authors for the quality
andvarietyofthepaperswereceived, andforhelpingtofosterthegrowthofthefieldofcomputational
psycholinguistics. We would also like to thank our program committee for providing expertise in the
evaluation of submitted papers. Finally, our program this year includes invited talks by Dr. Naomi
Feldman of the University of Maryland and Dr. Edward Gibson of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. Weextendourappreciationtotheseresearchersforsharingtheirworkwithus.
TimO’DonnellandVeraDemberg
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Organizers:
VeraDemberg,SaarlandUniversity(Germany)
TimO’Donnell,MIT(USA)
ProgramCommittee:
AfraAlishahi,TilburgUniversity(TheNetherlands)
KlintonBicknell,NorthwesternUniversity(USA)
AlexanderClark,King’sCollegeLondon(UK)
JenniferCulbertson,GeorgeMasonUniversity(USA)
AfsanehFazly,UniversityofToronto(Canada)
BobFrank,Yale(USA)
StefanFrank,RadboudUniversityNijmegen(TheNetherlands)
StellaFrank,UniversityofEdinburgh(UK)
JohnT.Hale,CornellUniversity(USA)
FrankKeller,UniversityofEdinburgh(UK)
AnnaKorhonen,UniversityofCambridge(UK)
ShalomLappin,King’sCollegeLondon(UK)
RichardL.Lewis,UniversityofMichigan(USA)
SebastianPadó,UniversityofStuttgart(Germany)
DavidReitter,PennStateUniversity(USA)
WilliamSchuler,TheOhioStateUniversity(USA)
NathanielSmith,UniversityofEdinburgh(UK)
EdStabler,UCLA(USA)
MarkSteedman,UniversityofEdinburgh(UK)
CharlesYang,UniversityofPennsylvania(USA)
JelleZuidema,UniversityofAmsterdam(TheNetherlands)
InvitedSpeakers:
EdwardGibson,MIT(USA)
NaomiFeldman,UniversityofMaryland(USA)
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Table of Contents
Computationally Rational Saccadic Control: An Explanation of Spillover Effects Based on Sampling
fromNoisyPerceptionandMemory
MichaelShvartsman,RichardLewisandSatinderSingh.....................................1
Investigatingtheroleofentropyinsentenceprocessing
TalLinzenandFlorianJaeger............................................................10
SentenceProcessinginaVectorialModelofWorkingMemory
WilliamSchuler........................................................................19
EvaluatingEvaluationMetricsforMinimalistParsing
ThomasGrafandBradleyMarcinek......................................................28
LearningVerbClassesinanIncrementalModel
LibbyBarak,AfsanehFazlyandSuzanneStevenson ....................................... 37
AUsage-BasedModelofEarlyGrammaticalDevelopment
BarendBeekhuizen,RensBod,AfsanehFazly,SuzanneStevensonandArieVerhagen.........46
AModeltoQualifytheLinguisticAdaptationPhenomenoninOnlineConversationThreads: Analyzing
PrimingEffectinOnlineHealthCommunity
YafeiWang,DavidReitterandJohnYen..................................................55
Quantifyingtheroleofdiscoursetopicalityinspeakers’choicesofreferringexpressions
NahoOrita,NaomiFeldman,JordanBoyd-GraberandElianaVornov........................63
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Workshop Program
Thursday,June26,2014
8:55–9:00 Opening
9:00–10:00 InvitedtalkbyNaomiFeldman
10:00–10:30 Computationally Rational Saccadic Control: An Explanation of Spillover Effects
BasedonSamplingfromNoisyPerceptionandMemory
MichaelShvartsman,RichardLewisandSatinderSingh
10:30–11:00 Coffeebreak
11:00–11:30 Investigatingtheroleofentropyinsentenceprocessing
TalLinzenandFlorianJaeger
11:30–12:00 SentenceProcessinginaVectorialModelofWorkingMemory
WilliamSchuler
12:00–12:30 EvaluatingEvaluationMetricsforMinimalistParsing
ThomasGrafandBradleyMarcinek
12:30–14:00 Lunchbreak
14:00–14:30 LearningVerbClassesinanIncrementalModel
LibbyBarak,AfsanehFazlyandSuzanneStevenson
14:30–15:00 AUsage-BasedModelofEarlyGrammaticalDevelopment
BarendBeekhuizen,RensBod,AfsanehFazly,SuzanneStevensonandArieVerha-
gen
15:00–15:30 AModeltoQualifytheLinguisticAdaptationPhenomenoninOnlineConversation
Threads: AnalyzingPrimingEffectinOnlineHealthCommunity
YafeiWang,DavidReitterandJohnYen
15:30–16:00 Coffeebreak
16:00–16:30 Quantifyingtheroleofdiscoursetopicalityinspeakers’choicesofreferringexpres-
sions
NahoOrita,NaomiFeldman,JordanBoyd-GraberandElianaVornov
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Thursday,June26,2014(continued)
16:30–17:30 InvitedtalkbyTedGibson
17:30–17:45 ClosingRemarks
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