Roger Levy Papers Presentations Teaching Other

Thesis

Roger Levy. 2005. Probabilistic models of word order and syntactic discontinuity. Stanford University. [PS|PDF]


Textbook-in-progress

Roger Levy. Probabilistic Models in the Study of Language.


Downloadable papers

Submitted/under review/manuscripts

Hannah Rohde, Roger Levy, and Andrew Kehler. 2008. Anticipating Explanations in Relative Clause Processing. Submitted -- comments welcome! [PDF]

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. In press, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Roger Levy, Florencia Reali, and Thomas Griffiths. 2009. Modeling the effects of memory on human online sentence processing with particle filters. To appear Proceedings of NIPS. [Pre-proceedings PDF]

Klinton Bicknell, Roger Levy, and Vera Demberg. 2009. Correcting the incorrect: Local coherence effects modeled with prior belief update. In Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS). [PDF]

Klinton Bicknell and Roger Levy. A model of local coherence effects in human sentence processing as consequences of updates from bottom-up prior to posterior beliefs. To appear in Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics -- Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT) conference. [PDF]

Y. Albert Park and Roger Levy. Minimal-length linearizations for mildly context-sensitive dependency trees. To appear in Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics -- Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT) conference. [PDF]

2008

Roger Levy. 2008. A noisy-channel model of rational human sentence comprehension under uncertain input. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). [PDF]

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

Nathaniel Smith and Roger Levy. 2008. Optimal Processing Times in Reading: a Formal Model and Empirical Investigation. To appear in Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (oral presentation). [PDF]

Roger Levy. 2008. Expectation-based syntactic comprehension. Cognition 106(3):1126-1177. [PDF]

2007

Roger Levy and T. Florian Jaeger. 2007. Speakers optimize information density through syntactic reduction. Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. [paper|appendix 1|appendix 2] (Appendix 1 proof corrected 25 Feb 2009)

2006

Sarah Bunin Benor and Roger Levy. 2006. The Chicken or the Egg? A Probabilistic Analysis of English Binomials. Language 82(2):233-278. Pre-proof version: [PDF] An alphabetical list of the binomials and their semantic constraint violation profiles: [ASCII]

Roger Levy and Galen Andrew. 2006. Tregex and Tsurgeon: tools for querying and manipulating tree data structures. Proceedings of LREC 2006. [PDF]

2005 and before

Roger Levy and Christopher Manning. 2004. Deep dependencies from context-free statistical parsers: correcting the surface dependency approximation. Proceedings of ACL 2004. [PDF|PS].

Iddo Lev, Bill MacCartney, Christopher Manning, and Roger Levy. 2004. Solving Logic Puzzles: From Robust Processing to Precise Semantics. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Text Meaning and Interpretation. [PDF]

Roger Levy and David Oshima. 2003. Non-transitive information flow in Japanese noun-classifier matching. Proceedings of HPSG 2003. [PDF]

Roger Levy and Christopher Manning. 2003. Is it harder to parse Chinese, or the Chinese Treebank? Published in Proceedings of ACL 2003. [PS]

Cynthia Thompson, Roger Levy, and Christopher Manning. 2003. A Generative Model for FrameNet Semantic Role Labeling. Proceedings of ECML 2003. [PDF]

Roger Levy and Carl Pollard. 2001. Coordination and Neutralization in HPSG. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. [PDF]

Roger Levy. Draft of March 19, 2001. Feature Indeterminacy and the Coordination of Unlikes in a Totally Well-Typed HPSG. [PDF|PS]


Last modified: 8 March 2009