CaLiCo Lab

The CaLiCo Lab studies how language processing works, from comprehension to production to conversation. We use a variety of methods, including laboratory and web experiments as well as Bayesian, connectionist, and large language models.

Recent Papers

López Cortez, M., & Jacobs, C. L.* (2023). Incorporating annotator uncertainty into representations of discourse relations. In Proceedings of SIGDIAL 2023, Prague, Czechia.

López Cortez, M., & Jacobs, C. L.* (2023). The distribution of discourse relations in an annotated corpus of spontaneous conversation. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse (CODI), Association for Computational Linguistics, Toronto, Canada. [ACL anthology link]

Sullivan, M. J., Yasin, M. N., & Jacobs, C. L.* (2023). University at Buffalo at SemEval-2023 Task 11: MASDA–Modelling Annotator Sensibilities through DisAggregation. In Proceedings of the 2nd Learning with Disagreements (Le-Wi-Di) Shared Task: System Papers, SemEval, Association for Computational Linguistics, Toronto, Canada. *Nominated for SemEval Best Paper Award [ACL anthology link]

Recent Conference Presentations

Jacobs, C. L., De Santo, A., & Grobol, L. (2024). Structural and interpretative factors in the processing of zeugma. Poster to be presented at the 37th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing.

Jacobs, C. L., Hubbard, R. J., & Federmeier, K. D. (2023, November). Quantifying the semantic heterogeneity of cloze responses. Talk presented at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, San Francisco, California.

Kochupurackal, A., Jacobs, C. L., Cohen-Goldberg, A. M. (2023, November). Serial order mechanisms in spoken and typed language production. Talk presented at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, San Francisco, California.

Hubbard, R. J., Jacobs, C. L., & Federmeier, K. D. (2023, September). Reassessing the role of the N400 as an index of linguistic prediction. Poster presented at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysical Research. New Orleans, Louisiana.

Jacobs, C. L., De Santo, A., & Grobol, L. (2023, March). Online and offline processing in zeugmatic constructions is partially sensitive to argument order. Poster presented at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Human Sentence Processing Society. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Myers, B., Jacobs, C. L., Buxó-Lugo, A., & Watson, D. G. (2023, March). Pinny or penny? Dialect differences and their effect on phonological encoding. Talk presented at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Human Sentence Processing Society. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Members and Affiliates

PI

Dr. Cassandra Jacobs (cxjacobs@buffalo.edu)

Graduate students

Magalí López Cortez (PhD student, Department of Linguistics)
Ali Salehi (PhD student, Department of Linguistics)
Bahareh Yousefzadeh (PhD student, Department of Linguistics)
Candy Angulo Pando (PhD student, Department of Linguistics)
Romina Marazzato Sparano (PhD student, Department of Information Science)
Tianle Yang (PhD student, Department of Linguistics)

Undergraduate students

Sean Afridi (BS 2022, Computer Science and Engineering)
Rin Krivokrysenko (BS 2021, Computer Science and Engineering)

Alumni

Michael Sullivan (PhD student, Department of Linguistics)
Nasheed Yasin (MS student, Department of Linguistics)
Sarah Sues (MS student, Department of Linguistics)
Kayla Shames (PhD student, Department of Linguistics)
Akshay Sahai (MS 2021, Department of Computer Science and Engineering)
Eden Schaffer-Neitz (MS 2021, Department of Linguistics)
Xianglong Meng (MS 2021, Department of Computer Science and Engineering)

Collaborators

Robert Hawkins (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
Ryan Hubbard (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Fred Mailhot (Dialpad, Inc.)
Loïc Grobol (Université Paris Nanterre)
Aniello De Santo (University of Utah)
Brett Myers (University of Utah)
Duane Watson (Vanderbilt University)
Maryellen MacDonald (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
Steve Schwering (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

Joining the lab

If you are a student interested in computation, cognition, and language, and you have prior programming experience, please reach out to Dr. Jacobs by e-mail with the word marshmallow somewhere in the subject line along with a brief description of what research you find interesting as well as a copy of your resume.