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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Vera Demberg is a German computational linguist and professor of computer science and computational linguistics at Saarland University. Her research interests include cognitive models of human language comprehension, natural language generation, experimental psycholinguistics, multimodal language processing in a dual-task setting, and experimental and computational discourse research and pragmatics.
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- Data from eye-tracking corpora as evidence for theories of syntactic processing complexity (2008) (507)
- Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models (2022) (218)
- Improving Variational Encoder-Decoders in Dialogue Generation (2018) (84)
- Syntactic and Semantic Factors in Processing Difficulty: An Integrated Measure (2010) (70)
- Incremental, Predictive Parsing with Psycholinguistically Motivated Tree-Adjoining Grammar (2013) (67)
- Information Presentation in Spoken Dialogue Systems (2006) (65)
- A Language-Independent Unsupervised Model for Morphological Segmentation (2007) (64)
- The Frequency of Rapid Pupil Dilations as a Measure of Linguistic Processing Difficulty (2016) (61)
- Implicitness of Discourse Relations (2012) (59)
- Proceedings of Interspeech 2008 (2008) (57)
- A Computational Model of Prediction in Human Parsing: Unifying Locality and Surprisal Effects (2009) (52)
- Salience and Attention in Surprisal-Based Accounts of Language Processing (2016) (51)
- Next Sentence Prediction helps Implicit Discourse Relation Classification within and across Domains (2019) (48)
- Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2014, October 25-29, 2014, Doha, Qatar, A meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of the ACL (2014) (41)
- Phonological Constraints and Morphological Preprocessing for Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion (2007) (40)
- Syntactic Surprisal Affects Spoken Word Duration in Conversational Contexts (2012) (39)
- The time-course of processing discourse connectives (2013) (37)
- A Strategy for Information Presentation in Spoken Dialog Systems (2011) (36)
- A Systematic Study of Neural Discourse Models for Implicit Discourse Relation (2017) (35)
- Annotating Discourse Relations in Spoken Language: A Comparison of the PDTB and CCR Frameworks (2016) (34)
- Neural Data-to-Text Generation with LM-based Text Augmentation (2021) (33)
- Measuring linguistically-induced cognitive load during driving using the ConTRe task (2013) (32)
- A Psycholinguistically Motivated Version of TAG (2008) (31)
- Modeling Semantic Expectation: Using Script Knowledge for Referent Prediction (2017) (30)
- Improving unsupervised vector-space thematic fit evaluation via role-filler prototype clustering (2015) (29)
- Information Density and Linguistic Encoding (IDeaL) (2016) (29)
- LingoTurk: managing crowdsourced tasks for psycholinguistics (2016) (29)
- Uniform Information Density at the Level of Discourse Relations: Negation Markers and Discourse Connective Omission (2015) (27)
- Language and cognitive load in a dual task environment (2013) (26)
- The Index of Cognitive Activity as a Measure of Cognitive Processing Load in Dual Task Settings (2018) (26)
- Unifying dimensions in coherence relations: How various annotation frameworks are related (2018) (26)
- On the Information Conveyed by Discourse Markers (2013) (25)
- Incremental and predictive discourse processing based on causal and concessive discourse markers: ERP studies on German and English (2014) (24)
- Crowdsourcing discourse interpretations: On the influence of context and the reliability of a connective insertion task (2017) (24)
- Event participant modelling with neural networks (2016) (24)
- Thematic fit evaluation: an aspect of selectional preferences (2016) (23)
- Learning to predict script events from domain-specific text (2015) (23)
- Examples and Specifications that Prove a Point: Identifying Elaborative and Argumentative Discourse Relations (2017) (22)
- Learning to Explicitate Connectives with Seq2Seq Network for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification (2018) (21)
- Psycholinguistic Models of Sentence Processing Improve Sentence Readability Ranking (2017) (20)
- Pupillometry: the Index of Cognitive Activity in a dual-task study (2013) (19)
- Jointly Improving Language Understanding and Generation with Quality-Weighted Weak Supervision of Automatic Labeling (2021) (19)
- Does the Order of Training Samples Matter? Improving Neural Data-to-Text Generation with Curriculum Learning (2021) (18)
- Measuring the Strength of Linguistic Cues for Discourse Relations (2012) (18)
- An exploration of semantic features in an unsupervised thematic fit evaluation framework (2015) (17)
- Unsupervised Pidgin Text Generation By Pivoting English Data and Self-Training (2020) (17)
- Using Universal Dependencies in cross-linguistic complexity research (2018) (16)
- "On the one hand" as a Cue to Anticipate Upcoming Discourse Structure (2017) (16)
- Linguistic cognitive load : implications for automotive UIs (2011) (15)
- Correcting the Incorrect: Local Coherence Effects Modeled with Prior Belief Update (2009) (15)
- Eye-tracking Evidence for Integration Cost Effects in Corpus Data (2007) (15)
- A Hybrid Model for Globally Coherent Story Generation (2019) (15)
- On Training Instance Selection for Few-Shot Neural Text Generation (2021) (15)
- Verb polysemy and frequency effects in thematic fit modeling (2015) (15)
- Crowdsourcing Discourse Relation Annotations by a Two-Step Connective Insertion Task (2019) (14)
- DART: A Lightweight Quality-Suggestive Data-to-Text Annotation Tool (2020) (14)
- Semantically underinformative utterances trigger pragmatic inferences (2015) (13)
- How compatible are our discourse annotation frameworks? Insights from mapping RST-DT and PDTB annotations (2019) (12)
- Improving event prediction by representing script participants (2016) (11)
- Neural Network Models for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification in English and Chinese without Surface Features (2016) (11)
- Individual differences in expecting coherence relations: Exploring the variability in sensitivity to contextual signals in discourse (2020) (11)
- Vector-space calculation of semantic surprisal for predicting word pronunciation duration (2015) (11)
- Improving Language Generation from Feature-Rich Tree-Structured Data with Relational Graph Convolutional Encoders (2019) (11)
- The Index of Cognitive Activity as a Measure of Linguistic Processing (2013) (11)
- Letter-to-Phoneme Conversion for a German Text-to-Speech System (2006) (11)
- How speakers adapt object descriptions to listeners under load (2018) (10)
- On the Need of Cross Validation for Discourse Relation Classification (2017) (9)
- Using Explicit Discourse Connectives in Translation for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification (2017) (9)
- Interpretation of Discourse Connectives Is Probabilistic: Evidence From the Study of But and Although (2020) (8)
- Incremental Neo-Davidsonian semantic construction for TAG (2012) (8)
- Learning distributed event representations with a multi-task approach (2018) (7)
- Incremental Semantic Role Labeling with Tree Adjoining Grammar (2014) (7)
- Rollenwechsel-English: a large-scale semantic role corpus (2018) (6)
- The online processing of causal and concessive discourse connectives (2021) (6)
- How consistent are our discourse annotations? Insights from mapping RST-DT and PDTB annotations (2017) (6)
- Incremental Derivations in CCG (2012) (6)
- Mishearing as a Side Effect of Rational Language Comprehension in Noise (2021) (6)
- Cognitive Models of Syntax and Sentence Processing (2018) (6)
- Search Challenges in Natural Language Generation with Complex Optimization Objectives (2015) (6)
- Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms (2008) (6)
- How compatible are our discourse annotations? Insights from mapping RST-DT and PDTB annotations (2017) (6)
- The Extended SPaRKy Restaurant Corpus: Designing a Corpus with Variable Information Density (2017) (6)
- Diverse and Relevant Visual Storytelling with Scene Graph Embeddings (2020) (6)
- Uniform Surprisal at the Level of Discourse Relations: Negation Markers and Discourse Connective Omission (2015) (6)
- DiscoGeM: A Crowdsourced Corpus of Genre-Mixed Implicit Discourse Relations (2022) (5)
- G-TUNA: a corpus of referring expressions in German, including duration information (2017) (5)
- Effects of Aging and Dual-Task Demands on the Comprehension of Less Expected Sentence Continuations: Evidence From Pupillometry (2019) (5)
- Safe Handover in Mixed-Initiative Control for Cyber-Physical Systems (2020) (4)
- When Do We Leave Discourse Relations Underspecified? The Effect of Formality and Relation Type (2020) (4)
- But vs. Although under the microscope (2016) (4)
- German and English Treebanks and Lexica for Tree-Adjoining Grammars (2012) (4)
- Do We Need Cross Validation for Discourse Relation Classification? (2017) (4)
- The SelectGen Challenge: Finding the Best Training Samples for Few-Shot Neural Text Generation (2021) (4)
- Acquiring Annotated Data with Cross-lingual Explicitation for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification (2018) (4)
- Story Generation with Rich Details (2020) (4)
- POS TAG PERPLEXITY AS A MEASURE OF SYNTACTIC COMPLEXITY (2018) (4)
- Integration Costs on Auxiliaries? - a self-paced reading study using WebExp (2013) (4)
- Processing particularized pragmatic inferences under load (2020) (3)
- A vision-grounded dataset for predicting typical locations for verbs (2018) (3)
- Comparison of methods for explicit discourse connective identification across various domains (2021) (3)
- Surprisal Modulates Dual-Task Performance in Older Adults: Pupillometry Shows Age-Related Trade-Offs in Task Performance and Time-Course of Language Processing (2018) (3)
- Semantic Predictability Facilitates Comprehension of Degraded Speech in a Graded Manner (2021) (3)
- Toward Bayesian Synchronous Tree Substitution Grammars for Sentence Planning (2018) (3)
- Information Density and Linguistic Encoding (IDeaL) (2015) (3)
- From OpenCCG to AI Planning: Detecting Infeasible Edges in Sentence Generation (2016) (3)
- Exploring the Potential of Lexical Paraphrases for Mitigating Noise-Induced Comprehension Errors (2021) (2)
- Why Do I Have to Take Over Control? Evaluating Safe Handovers with Advance Notice and Explanations in HAD (2021) (2)
- Verb-Second Effect on Quantifier Scope Interpretation (2019) (2)
- Age differences in language comprehension during driving: Recovery from prediction errors is more effortful for older adults (2017) (2)
- Design Choices in Crowdsourcing Discourse Relation Annotations: The Effect of Worker Selection and Training (2022) (2)
- The semantic augmentation of a psycholinguistically-motivated syntactic formalism (2013) (2)
- Informationally redundant utterances elicit pragmatic inferences (2022) (2)
- Roleo: Visualising Thematic Fit Spaces on the Web (2016) (2)
- Do theories of syntactic processing difficulty scale up to naturally occurring text ? (2007) (2)
- Time-Aware Ancient Chinese Text Translation and Inference (2021) (2)
- Establishing Annotation Quality in Multi-label Annotations (2022) (2)
- Prediction of modifiers during sentence processing (思考と言語) (2009) (2)
- Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop (2009) (1)
- Improving Zero-Shot Multilingual Text Generation via Iterative Distillation (2022) (1)
- UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) A Usage-Based Model of Early Grammatical Development A Usage-Based Model of Early Grammatical Development (2014) (1)
- Disambiguating discourse relations with or without a connective: Does “and” really say nothing? (2018) (1)
- Label distributions help implicit discourse relation classification (2022) (1)
- Two-Stage Movie Script Summarization: An Efficient Method For Low-Resource Long Document Summarization (2022) (1)
- Entity Enhancement for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification in the Biomedical Domain (2021) (1)
- Interaction of Script Knowledge and Temporal Discourse Cues in a Visual World Study (2021) (1)
- Visual Writing Prompts: Character-Grounded Story Generation with Curated Image Sequences (2023) (1)
- Semi-automatic discourse annotation in a low-resource language: Developing a connective lexicon for Nigerian Pidgin (2021) (1)
- Descriptively Adequate and Cognitively Plausible? Validating Distinctions between Types of Coherence Relations (2022) (1)
- Few-Shot Pidgin Text Adaptation via Contrastive Fine-Tuning (2022) (1)
- The role of non-connective discourse cues and their interaction with connectives (2020) (1)
- Do Speakers Produce Discourse Connectives Rationally? (2018) (1)
- A practical perspective on connective generation (2021) (1)
- Limits to the Rational Production of Discourse Connectives (2021) (1)
- Predictions of upcoming discourse structure based on "On the one hand" (2016) (0)
- Linguistic complexity and cognitive workload : measurement and management (2013) (0)
- Logic-Guided Neural Utterance Generation from Drone Sensory Data (Extended Abstract) (2021) (0)
- A discourse connector ' s distribution determines its interpretation (2015) (0)
- Predictability effects in degraded speech comprehension are reduced as a function of attention (2022) (0)
- A Data-Driven Investigation of Noise-Adaptive Utterance Generation with Linguistic Modification (2022) (0)
- The effect of genre variation on the production and acceptability of underspecified discourse markers in English (2018) (0)
- Identifying Predictive Collocations (2013) (0)
- Towards Flexible, Small-Domain Surface Generation: Combining Data-Driven and Grammatical Approaches (2015) (0)
- Linguistics (1974) (0)
- Discourse Expectations and Implicitness of ( Causal ) Discourse Relations (2012) (0)
- ATA AND S ELF-TRAINING (2020) (0)
- The effect of domain knowledge on discourse relation inferences: Relation marking and interpretation strategies (2022) (0)
- Rational speech comprehension: Interaction between predictability, acoustic signal, and noise (2022) (0)
- Barch: an English Dataset of Bar Chart Summaries (2022) (0)
- Order Print-on-demand Copies From: Table of Contents Predictions for Self-priming from Incremental Updating Models Unifying Comprehension and Production Pragmatic Alignment on Social Support Type in Health Forum Conversations Fusion of Compositional Network-based and Lexical Function Distributional (0)
- A systematic evaluation of factors affecting referring expression choice in passage completion tasks (2023) (0)
- D IALOGUE P IDGIN T EXT A DAPTATION VIA C ON TRASTIVE F INE -T UNING (2022) (0)
- How can we adapt generation to the user’s cognitive load? (2016) (0)
- Zero-shot Script Parsing (2022) (0)
- Syntactic complexity induces explicit grounding in the Maptask corpus (2008) (0)
- Processing cost effects of atypicality inferences in a dual-task setup (2023) (0)
- Using AI Planning Techniques in OpenCCG : Detecting Infeasible Composites in Sentence Generation (2016) (0)
- Logic-Guided Message Generation from Raw Real-Time Sensor Data (2022) (0)
- Eye-tracking Evidence for Frequency and Integration Cost Effects in Corpus Data (2007) (0)
- Reviewers for Volume 44 (2013) (0)
- Integrating Surprisal and Dependency Locality Theory : A Broad Coverage Model (2008) (0)
- Programmable Annotation with Diversed Heuristics and Data Denoising (2022) (0)
- ‘ONLY’ INCREASES EXPECTATIONS FOR CAUSAL COHERENCE RELATIONS (2019) (0)
- What inferences do people actually make on encountering a redundant utterance? An individual differences study (2022) (0)
- "On the one hand" as a cue in the comprehension of discourse structure (2015) (0)
- Design Choices for Crowdsourcing Implicit Discourse Relations: Revealing the Biases Introduced by Task Design (2023) (0)
- Search Challenges in Natural Language Generation with Complex Optimization Objectives (2015) (0)
- The effect of domain knowledge and implicitation on discourse relation inferences (2022) (0)
- Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop at EACL 2009 (2009) (0)
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