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Research Interests
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Statistical models of human and machine language processing, especially computational psycholinguistics (computational, probabilistic models of human language processing and learning).
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Corpus linguistics with a focus on the sources of differences between corpora and how these differences affect statistical language models.
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Investigation of how the differences between the isolated contexts typically studied in psycholinguistics and the information rich contexts found in normal language use affect the outcome of psycholinguistic experiments (in particular, the effects of semantic, discourse, and prosodic factors that typically operate over larger domains than the single sentence).
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Other interests include language acquisition, language induction, and translation.
Recent Classes
Spring 2010
Fall 2009
Spring 2009
Spring 2008
Representative Publications
Please see
my Publications and
Presentations page for a more complete list of publications and for
preprints.
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Roland, Douglas,
Frederic Dick, and Jeffrey L. Elman (2007). Frequency of
basic English grammatical structures: A corpus analysis. Journal
of Memory and Language 57(3) p 348-379.
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Roland, Douglas,
Jeffrey L. Elman, Victor S. Ferreira (2006). Why is that?
Structural prediction and ambiguity resolution in a very large
corpus of English sentences. Cognition 98 p 245-272.
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Gahl, Susanne, Dan
Jurafsky, Douglas Roland (2004). Verb subcategorization
frequencies: American English corpus data, methodological studies,
and cross-corpus comparisons. Behavior Research Methods,
Instruments, and Computers 36(3) p 432-443.
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Roland, Douglas and
Daniel Jurafsky. (2002). Verb sense and verb subcategorization
probabilities. In Paola Merlo and Suzanne Stevenson (Eds), The
Lexical Basis of Sentence Processing: Formal, Computational, and
Experimental Issues, John Benjamins.
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Roland, Douglas,
Daniel Jurafsky, Lise Menn, Susanne Gahl, Elizabeth Elder and Chris
Riddoch. (2000). Verb subcategorization frequency differences
between business-news and balanced corpora: the role of verb sense.
In Proceedings of the Workshop on Comparing Corpora, pages 28-34,
Hong Kong, October.
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Roland, Douglas and
Daniel Jurafsky. (1998). How verb subcategorization frequencies
are affected by corpus choice. Proceedings of COLING-ACL 1998. p
1117-1121.
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