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Recent Publications of Matthew W. Crocker

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Books and Edited Volumes

  • Matthew Crocker and Joerg Siekmann (eds). Resource Adaptive Cognitive Systems. Cognitive Technologies Series. Springer Verlag, Berlin. (in preparation)
  • Pia Knoeferle, Matthew Crocker and Friedemann Pulvermuller. Special Issue on: Embodied language processing: neuroimaging, behavioural, and neurocomputational perspectives. Brain and Language. Publication scheduled for Sept 2009.
  • Frank Keller, Steven Clark, Matthew Crocker and Mark Steedman (eds). Proceedings of the ACL Workshop Incremental Parsing: Bringing Engineering and Cognition Together, Barcelona, Spain, July, 2004.
  • Matthew Crocker, Martin Pickering and Charles Clifton, Jr. (eds). Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, January 2000.
  • Matthew Crocker. Computational Psycholinguistics: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of Language, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, January 1996.

Articles

  • Ulrike Pado, Matthew Crocker and Frank Keller. A Probabilistic Model of Semantic Plausibility in Sentence Processing. Cognitive Science. (provisionally accepted).
  • Marshall Mayberry, Matthew Crocker and Pia Knoeferle. Learning to Attend: A Connectionist Model of Situated Language Comprehension. Cognitive Science. (accepted).
  • Pia Knoeferle and Matthew Crocker. The coordinated processing of scene and utterance: evidence from eye tracking in depicted events. In: Srinivasan, Gupta & Pandey (eds), Advances in Cognitive Science, Sage Publications, 2008.
  • Igor Farkas and Matthew Crocker. Syntactic systematicity in sentence processing with a recurrent self-organizing network. Neurocomputing, 71(7-9):1172-1179, 2008. [pdf]
  • Pia Knoeferle, Boukje Habets, Matthew Crocker and Thomas Münte. Visual scenes trigger immediate syntactic reanalysis: evidence from ERPs during situated spoken comprehension. Cerebral Cortex, 18(4):789-795, 2008. [pdf]
  • Pia Knoeferle and Matthew Crocker. The influence of recent scene events on spoken comprehension: evidence from eye-movements. Journal of Memory and Language (Special issue: Language-Vision Interaction); 57(2):519-543, 2007. [pdf]
  • Matthew Crocker and Frank Keller. Probabilistic Grammars as Models of Gradience in Language Processing. In: Gisbert Fanselow, Caroline Féry, Ralph Vogel, and Matthias Schlesewsky, eds., Gradience in Grammar: Generative Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2006. [pdf]
  • Andrea Weber, Bettina Braun and Matthew Crocker. Finding Referents in Time: Eye-tracking Evidence for the Role of Contrastive Accents. Language and Speech. 49(3):367-392, (2006). [pdf]
  • Pia Knoeferle and Matthew Crocker. The coordinated interplay of scene, utterance, and world knowledge: evidence from eye tracking.Cognitive Science; 30(3):481-529, 2006. [pdf]
  • Andrea Weber, Martine Grice and Matthew Crocker. The role of prosody in the interpretation of structural ambiguities: a study of anticipatory eye movements. Cognition. 99(2):B63-B72, 2006. [pdf]
  • Matthew Crocker. Rational models of comprehension: addressing the performance paradox. In: A. Culter (ed) Twenty-First Century Psycholinguistics: Four Cornerstones, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 2005. [pdf]
  • Pia Knoeferle, Matthew Crocker, Martin Pickering, and Christoph Scheepers. The influence of the immediate visual context on incremental thematic role-assignment: evidence from eye-movements in depicted events. Cognition; 95(1):95-127, 2005. [pdf]
  • Christoph Scheepers and Matthew Crocker. Constituent Order Priming from Reading to Listening: A Visual-World Study. In: M. Carreiras and C. Clifton, Jr. (eds), The On-line Study of Sentence Comprehension: Eyetracking, ERP and Beyond. Psychology Press, UK, 2004. [pdf]
  • Matthew Crocker and Steffan Corley. Modular Architectures and Statistical Mechanisms: The Case from Lexical Category Disambiguation. In: Merlo & Stevenson (eds), The Lexical Basis of Sentence Processing, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 2002. [pdf]
  • Patrick Sturt, Martin Pickering, Christoph Scheepers, and Matthew Crocker. The Preservation of Structure in Language Comprehension: Is Reanalysis the Last Resort? Journal of Memory and Language; 45(2):283-307, 2001.
  • Steffan Corley, Martin Corley, Frank Keller, Matthew Crocker, and Shari Trewin. Finding Syntactic Structure in Unparsed Corpora: The GSEARCH Corpus Query System. Computers and the Humanities; 35:81-94, 2001. [pdf]
  • Matthew Crocker and Thorsten Brants. Wide Coverage Probabilistic Sentence Processing. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research; 29(6):647-669, 2000. [pdf]
  • Martin Pickering, Matthew Traxler, and Matthew Crocker. Ambiguity Resolution in Sentence Processing: Evidence Against Likelihood. Journal of Memory and Language; 43(3):447-475, 2000.
  • Patrick Sturt, Martin Pickering, and Matthew Crocker. Search Strategies in Syntactic Reanalysis. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research; 29(2):183-194, 2000.
  • Steffan Corley and Matthew Crocker. The Modular Statistical Hypothesis: Exploring Lexical Category Ambiguity. In: Crocker, Pickering & Clifton (eds), Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2000.
  • Matthew Crocker. Mechanisms for Sentence Processing. In: Garrod & Pickering (eds), Language Processing, Psychology Press, London, UK, 1999. [pdf]
  • Martin Pickering, Charles Clifton, Jr., and Matthew Crocker. Introduction. In: Crocker, Pickering & Clifton (eds), Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1999.
  • Masato Ishizaki, Matthew Crocker and Chris Mellish. Exploring Mixed-Initiative Dialogue Using Computer Dialogue Simulation. Journal of User-Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction; 9(1/2):79-91, 1999.
  • Patrick Sturt, Martin Pickering, and Matthew Crocker. Structural Change and Reanalysis Difficulty in Language Comprehension. Journal of Memory and Language; 40(1):136-150, 1999.
  • Nicholas Chater, Matthew Crocker, and Martin Pickering. The Rational Analysis of Inquiry: The Case for Parsing. In: Chater & Oaksford (eds), Rational Models of Cognition, pp. 441-468, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998. [pdf]
  • Patrick Sturt and Matthew Crocker. Generalized Monotonicity for Reanalysis Models. In: Fodor & Ferreira (eds), Reanalysis in Sentence Processing, pp. 365-400, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1998.
  • Matthew Crocker. Principle-Based Parsing and Logic Programming. Informatica; 21:263-277, 1997. [pdf]
  • Patrick Sturt and Matthew Crocker. Thematic Monotonicity. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research; 26(3):297-322, 1997.
  • Andrew Fordham and Matthew Crocker. A Stochastic Government-Binding Parser. In: Jones & Somers (eds): New Methods in Language Processing, pp. 318-330, UCL Press, London, 1997.
  • Patrick Sturt and Matthew Crocker. Monotonic Syntactic Processing: A Cross-Linguistic Study of Attachment. Language and Cognitive Processes; 11(5):449-494, 1996. [pdf]

Recent Conference Papers

  • Emilia Ellsiepe, Pia Knoeferle and Matthew Crocker. Incremental Syntactic Disambiguation Using Depicted Events: Plausibility, Co-Presence and Dynamic Presentation. In: Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Washington D.C., July, 2008. [pdf]
  • Maria Staudte and Matthew Crocker. The role of gaze in spoken human-robot interaction, In: Proceedings of the HRI Workshop on Metrics for Human-Robot Interaction, Amsterdam, March 2008. [pdf]
  • Jens Apel, Pia Knoeferle and Matthew Crocker. Processing Parallel Structure: Evidence from Eye-Tracking and a Computational Model. To appear in: Proceedings of the Second European Cognitive Science Society Conference, Delphi, Greece, May 2007.[pdf]
  • Igor Farkas and Matthew Crocker. Systematicity in sentence processing with a recursive self-organizing neural network. In: Proceedings of European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Bruges, Belgium, April 2007.[pdf]
  • Ulrike Pado, Frank Keller and Matthew Crocker. Combining syntax and thematic fit in a probabilistic model of sentence processing. In: Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, Canada, July 2006.[pdf]
  • Marshall Mayberry, Matthew Crocker and Pia Knoeferle. A Connectionist Model of the Coordinated Interplay of Scene, Utterance, and World Knowledge. In: Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, Canada, July 2006.[pdf]
  • Igor Farkas and Matthew Crocker. Recurrent networks and natural language: exploiting self-organization. In: Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, Canada, July 2006.[pdf]
  • Pia Knoeferle and Matthew Crocker. Accessibility of depicted events influences their priority in spoken comprehension. In: Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, Canada, July 2006.[pdf]
  • Ulrike Pado, Matthew Crocker and Frank Keller. Modelling semantic role plausibility in human sentence processing. In: Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the European Chapter  of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), Trento, Italy, April 2006.[pdf]
  • Marshall R. Mayberry, Matthew Crocker and Pia Knoeferle, A Connectionist Model of Anticipation in Visual Worlds, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Proceedings of IJCNLP), Volume 3651, Pages 849 - 861, September 2005. [pdf]
  • Bettina Braun, Andrea Weber and Matthew Crocker. Does Narrow Focus Activate Alternative Referents? In: Proceedings of Interspeech 2005, Lisbon, Portugal, September, 2005.[pdf]
  • Pia Knoeferle and Matthew Crocker. Incremental Effects of Mismatch during Picture-Sentence Integration: Evidence from Eye-tracking. In: Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Stresa, Italy, July 2005. [pdf]
  • Marshall R. Mayberry, Matthew Crocker and Pia Knoeferle. A Connectionist Model of Sentence Comprehension in Visual Worlds. In: Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Stresa, Italy, July 2005. [pdf]
  • Pia Knoeferle and Matthew Crocker. The coordinated processing of scene and utterance: evidence from eye-tracking in depicted events In: Proceedings of International Conference on Cognitive Science, Allahabad, India, December 2004. [pdf]
  • Marshall Mayberry and Matthew Crocker. Generating Semantic Graphs through Self-Organization. In: Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium on Compositional Connectionism in Cognitive Science, Washington D.C, October 2004. [pdf]
  • Pia Knoeferle and Matthew Crocker. Stored knowledge versus depicted events: what guides auditory sentence comprehension? In: Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Chicago, USA, August 2004. [pdf]
  • Kerstin Hadelich, Holly Branigan, Martin Pickering & Matthew Crocker. Allignment in Dialogue: Effects of Visual versus Verbal-feedback. In: Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (Catalog'04), Barcelona, Spain. July, 2004, [pdf]
  • Pia Knoeferle, Matthew Crocker, Christoph Scheepers and Martin Pickering, Actions and Roles: Using depicted events for disambiguation and reinterpretation in German and English. In: Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, USA, July 2003. [pdf]
  • Matthew Crocker. Parsing as Prediction: Evidence from SVO and OVS constructions in German. Keynote paper in: Proceedings of the 6th Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache (KONVENS 2002), pp. 3-6, Saarbrücken, Germany, September 2002. [pdf]
  • Thorsten Brants and Matthew Crocker. Probabilistic Parsing and Psychological Plausibility. In: Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2000); pp. 111-117, Saarbrücken, Germany, August 2000. [pdf]
  • Paola Merlo, Matthew Crocker, and Cathy Berthouzoz. Attaching Multiple Prepositional Phrases: Generalized Backed-Off Estimation. In: Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing; Providence, RI, June 1997. [pdf]