Presentations

"Surprising Linkages" Apr 3, 2023. Invited Talk, University of Florida

"Surprising Mechanisms" Jan 20, 2023. Invited Talk, Duesseldorf University

"Neural Language Priming" Feb 1, 2022. Invited Talk, UC Irvine

"NLP: Neural Language Priming" Jan 25, 2022. Invited Talk, Dongguk University

"Language Statistics won't solve Language Processing" Dec 3, 2021. Invited Talk, University of Chicago.

"Language Statistics won't solve Language Processing" Oct 15, 2021. Invited Talk, Georgia Tech.

"Language is not Language Processing" May 13, 2020. Invited Talk, MIT.

"The impact of predictability on human reading" February 11, 2020. Invited Talk, Cornell University (Cognitive Science).

"Using psycholinguistics to analyze and improve neural network language models" January 31, 2020. Invited Talk, Cornell University (Artificial Intelligence).

"Quantity doesn't buy quality syntax in neural language models" November 7, 2019. 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Hong Kong.

"Model Selection" March 28, 2018. Invited Talk, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.

"Adaptive Language Modeling for Psycholinguistics" March 28, 2018. Invited Talk, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.

"Probing Neural Network Representations" February 8, 2019. Invited Talk, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

"Garden Pathing Neural Networks" February 7, 2019. Invited Talk, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

"Can Entropy Explain Successor Surprisal Effects in Reading?" January 4, 2018. Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL), New York, NY.

"A Neural Model of Adaptation in Reading" November 4, 2018. 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Brussels, BE.

"Can Entropy Explain Successor Surprisal Effects in Reading?" September 7, 2018. Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP), Berlin, DE.

"A Neural Network Model of Adaptation in Reading" September 6, 2018. Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP), Berlin, DE.

"A Cognitively Plausible Adaptive Neural Language Model" May 12, 2018. Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning (MASC-SLL), University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, MD. (20% oral accept rate)

"The Statistics of the Unseen Influence Reading Times." September 8, 2017. Invited Talk, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.

"The Statistics of the Unseen Influence Reading Times." August 1, 2017. Invited Talk, University of Essex, Colchester, UK.

"Approximations of Predictive Entropy Correlate with Reading Times." July 29, 2017. CogSci 2017, London, UK.

"Approximations of Predictive Entropy Correlate with Reading Times." May 5, 2017. Midwest Speech and Language Days & Midwest Computational Linguistics Colloquium 2017, Toyota Technological Institute of Chicago.

"Screening for Alzheimer's with psycholinguistics." March 5, 2016. CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, University of Florida.

"Alpha power decreases during center embedding in natural stimuli." March 5, 2016. CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, University of Florida.

"Can measures of processing complexity predict progressive aphasia from speech?" March 3, 2016. CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, University of Florida.

"Frequencies that matter in sentence processing." September 7, 2015. Invited talk, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, DE.

"Controlling for confounds in online measures of sentence complexity." July 28, 2015. Invited talk, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, DE.

"Identifying EEG measures of memory and attentional load in language processing." July 2, 2015. Invited talk, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, DE.

"Evidence of syntactic working memory usage in MEG data." June 4, 2015. The 6th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2015), Denver, CO.

"Hierarchic syntax improves reading time prediction." June 3, 2015. 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2015), Denver, CO.

"Hierarchic syntax improves reading time prediction." March 21, 2015. CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, University of Southern California.

"Frequency Effects in the Processing of Unbounded Dependencies." July 24, 2014. 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2014), Quebec, QC, Canada

"Bootstrapping into Filler-Gap: An Acquisition Story." June 24, 2014. 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2014), Baltimore, MD

"Effects of integration in eye tracking." March 15, 2014. CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, The Ohio State University.

"Bootstrapping into Filler-Gap: An Acquisition Story." March 13, 2014. CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, The Ohio State University.

"Bootstrapping into Filler-Gap: An Acquisition Story." November 22, 2013. The Ohio State University Linguistics Colloquium Fest, The Ohio State University.

"An Analysis of Memory-based Processing Costs using Incremental Deep Syntactic Dependency Parsing." August 8, 2013. The 4th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2013), Sofia, Bulgaria.

"An Analysis of Frequency- and Memory-Based Processing Costs." June 10, 2013. 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2013), Atlanta, GA.

"An Analysis of Frequency- and Memory-Based Processing Costs." May 2, 2013. Midwest Speech and Language Days (MSLD 2013), Toyota Technological Institute of Chicago.

"Prediction- and Recall-Defined Online Complexity Metrics." December 5, 2012. The Ohio State University Linguistics Colloquium Fest, The Ohio State University.

"Connectionist-Inspired Incremental PCFG Parsing." June 7, 2012. The 3rd Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, McGill University.