I am a faculty member in the Department of Linguistics at UC San Diego. My main (but not only) area of interest is discourse interpretation, studied from the perspectives of theoretical linguistics, computational linguistics, and psycholinguistics. Explore the links above and below to find out more about me.

I also direct the department's Computational Linguistics Lab. My students are: Lara Taylor, Henry Beecher, Laura Kertz, Hannah Rohde, Rebecca Colavin, and Lucien Carroll. Check out what they're up to!

Considering coming to San Diego to study Computational Linguistics? A sales pitch can be found here.

On the stack (and recently off):

  • Posters at CUNY 2008 in Chapel Hill, March 2008 (all first-authored by Hannah Rohde, and the first also co-authored with Roger Levy):
    • Implicit Causality Biases Influence Relative Clause Attachment
    • The Bidirectional Influence between Coherence Establishment and Pronoun Interpretation
    • Demanding an Explanation: Implicit Causality Biases in Discourse Interpretation
    • Coherence-Driven Expectations in Discourse and Dialog
  • "Coherence-Driven Effects in Relative Clause Processing", (with Hannah Rohde and Roger Levy), LSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, January 2008.
  • "Event Reference and Morphological Transparency" (with Gregory Ward). WECOL 2007, San Diego, November 2007.
  • "Verb Aspect, Event Structure, and Pronoun Interpretation: An ERP Investigation" (with Todd Ferretti, Hannah Rohde, and Melanie Crutchley). The 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA, November, 2007.
  • "Be Locally Determined!" (with Daniel Buring). NELS 38, Ottawa, October 2007.
  • "Coherence and Coreference Revisited" (with Laura Kertz, Hannah Rohde, and Jeffrey Elman). Journal of Semantics special issue on Processing Meaning, 25:1, pp. 1-44.
  • "Cohesion and Coherence". To appear in "Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning" (edited by Claudia Maienborn, Klaus von Heusinger, and Paul Portner).
  • "Coherence and the (Psycho-) Linguistics of Pronoun Interpretation", Seminar, UC Santa Cruz Linguistics Colloquium, October 19, 2007 (handout available here).
  • "Coherence and the (Psycho-) Linguistics of Pronoun Interpretation", Seminar, Construction of Meaning Workshop, Stanford University, October 11-12, 2007 (handout available here). And while I'm there: "Adventures in Statistical Pronoun Interpretation", to be presented in Dan Jurafsky's and Chris Manning's Natural Language Understanding class at Stanford.
  • Title TBA. Seminar, Northwestern University Linguistics Colloquium, May 23, 2008.

Course announcements:

  • I'm teaching Lign 17 (Making and Breaking Codes) this quarter. The syllabus can be found here.
  • Roger Levy is teaching a new graduate course on Statistical Natural Language Processing this quarter.
  • Rob Malouf at SDSU is teaching a graduate introduction to Computational Linguistics this semester.
  • Rob also taught a graduate seminar on Dependency Parsing this past Fall.
  • Mark Gawron at SDSU taught a graduate seminar on Statistical MT and Word Sense Disambiguation this past Fall.
  • I'll be teaching a new undergraduate course in the Spring (Lign 160: Pragmatics). Keep on the lookout for a sales pitch as the time draws closer.