Publications and Presentations

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Publications

Articles in Refereed Journals

In press. Roland, Douglas, Gail Mauner, Carolyn O'Meara, and Hongoak Yun. Discourse and relative clauses: Building a more complete model of expectations in language processing. Journal of Memory and Language.

In press. Roland, Douglas, Hongoak Yun, Jean-Pierre Koenig and Gail Mauner. Semantic Similarity, Predictability, and Models of Sentence Processing. Cognition.

Submitted. Heider, Paul, Jeruen Dery, and Douglas Roland. It object relatives are also easier: Evidence against a fine-grained frequency account.

2007 Roland, Douglas, Frederic Dick, and Jeffrey L. Elman. Frequency of basic English grammatical structures: A corpus analysis. Journal of Memory and Language, 57(3), pages 348-379. Link

2006 Roland, Douglas, Jeffrey L. Elman, Victor S. Ferreira. Why is that? Structural prediction and ambiguity resolution in a very large corpus of English sentences. Cognition, 98, pages 245-272. Link

2004 Gahl, Susanne, Dan Jurafsky, Douglas Roland. Verb subcategorization frequencies: American English corpus data, methodological studies, and cross-corpus comparisons. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 36(3), pages 432-443. Link

Refereed Conference Proceedings

2000 Roland, Douglas, Daniel Jurafsky, Lise Menn, Susanne Gahl, Elizabeth Elder and Chris Riddoch. Verb subcategorization frequency differences between business-news and balanced corpora: the role of verb sense. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Comparing Corpora, held in conjunction with the 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 28-34, Hong Kong. Available through the ACL Anthology or this preprint

1998 Roland, Douglas and Daniel Jurafsky. How verb subcategorization frequencies are affected by corpus choice. In Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-ACL 1998), pages 1117-1121, Montreal, Canada. Available through the ACL Anthology or this preprint

Book Chapters

To appear. Roland, Douglas and Mary Hare. Computational and Corpus Models of Human Sentence Comprehension. In Marc Joanisse, Ken McRae and Michael Spivey (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Psycholinguistics, Cambridge University Press.

To appear. Koenig, Jean-Pierre, Douglas Roland, Hongoak Yun, and Gail Mauner. Which event properties matter for which cognitive task? In Roberto G. de Almeida and Christina Manouilidou (Eds.) volume on Verb Concepts.

2002 Roland, Douglas and Daniel Jurafsky. 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. Pages 325-345. PDF file of pre-print

Technical Reports

2009 Roland, Douglas. Discourse and relative clauses: Building a more complete model of expectations in language processing. IEICE Technical Report TL2009-23.

2004 Roland, Douglas, Jeffrey L. Elman, Victor S. Ferreira. Modeling ambiguity resolution. IEICE Technical Report TL2004-10, July 2004.

Presentations

Conference Presentations

2011 Heider, Paul, Jeruen Dery, and Douglas Roland. "It" object relatives are also easier: Evidence against a fine-grained frequency account. Paper presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.

2010 Yun, Hongoak,Gail Mauner, Jean-Pierre Koenig, and Douglas Roland. Influence of Instrument Roles and Role Fillers on Reading Times. Talk presented at the 51th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, November 18-21.

2008 Jean-Pierre Koenig, Doug Roland, Hongoak Yun, and Gail Mauner. Which verb semantics for which cognitive task. Verb Concepts: Cognitive Science perspectives on verbal representation and processing. Concordia University, Montreal, October 3-4.

2008 Roland, Douglas, Carolyn O'Meara, Hongoak Yun, and Gail Mauner. Discourse and object relative clauses: the effect of topic versus mention. 21st Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, March 13-15, 2008.

2007 Roland, Douglas, Carolyn O'Meara, Hongoak Yun, and Gail Mauner. Discourse context and English object relative clauses. The International Conference on Processing Head-final Structures, Rochester Institute of Technology, September 21-22, 2007.

2004 Roland, Douglas, Jeffrey L. Elman, Victor S. Ferreira. Modeling ambiguity resolution. The Thought and Language Symposium, University of University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan, July 9, 2004.

2004 Roland, Douglas. Using corpus data to model ambiguity resolution and complementizer use. The 78th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Boston, January 8-11.

2003 Roland, Douglas, Jeffrey L. Elman, Victor S. Ferreira. Signposts along the garden path. The 16th Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Boston.

2002 Roland, Douglas. Predicting verb subcategorization from the semantic context preceding the verb. The 15th Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York.

1995 Roland, Douglas and Giulia Bencini. Verb 'weight' in agrammatism: English, Japanese, French, and Italian. New Methods in Comparative Aphasiology, June 27-July 6, 1995. Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Conference Posters

2011 Yi, Eunkyung, Jean-Pierre Koenig, and Douglas Roland. Semantic attractors and constructional frequency in the English ditransitive construction. Poster presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.

2009 Roland, Douglas. Relative clauses remodeled: The problem with Mixed-Effect Models. 22nd Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of California, Davis, March 26-28, 2009. PDF file of poster.

2008 Roland, Douglas. Relative clauses and surprisal. 14th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, 4-6 September 2008, Cambridge, UK. PDF file of poster

2008 Yun, Hongoak, Douglas Roland, Jean-Pierre Koenig and Gail Mauner. The effects of semantic predictability and shared similarity with the other possible fillers on processing. 21st Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Marcy 13-15, 2008.

2007 Roland, Douglas, Carolyn O'Meara, Hongoak Yun, and Gail Mauner. Processing object relative clauses: Discourse or frequency? 20th Annual Meeting of the CUNY 2007 Conference on Human Sentence Processing, San Diego. PDF of handout

2003 Roland, Douglas, Jeffrey L. Elman, Victor S. Ferreira. Why 'that'?. The 9th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, University of Glasgow, August 25-27 2003. PDF file of poster (letter size version)

2003 McRae, Ken, Mary Hare, Jeffrey L. Elman, Douglas Roland. Implementing the resolution of the temporary DO/SC ambiguity. 16th Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Boston.

2002 Gahl, Susanne, Douglas Roland, and Daniel Jurafsky. A new resource and methodological considerations on verb subcategorization biases. 15th Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York.

1999 Roland, Douglas, Daniel Jurafsky, and Laura Michaelis. Verb Behavior is not Verb Nature: Sense and Genre Bias as Sources of Subcategorization Probabilities. 12th Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York. PDF file of handout

1998 Roland, Douglas and Daniel Jurafsky. How verb subcategorization frequencies are affected by the way you measure them. 11th Annual meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

1997 Roland, Douglas and Daniel Jurafsky. Computing verbal valence frequencies: corpora versus norming studies. 10th Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Santa Monica, California.

1996 Bencini, Giulia and Douglas Roland. Verb access difficulties and pragmatics in agrammatic aphasic narratives. The annual meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, San Diego, California. PDF file of handout

Dissertation

2001 Roland, Douglas. (2001). Verb sense and verb subcategorization probabilities. Doctoral dissertation, University of Colorado. Official double space PDF version Paper saving single space PDF version.