Invited Talks
Invited Speaker at the 11th Syntax and Semantics Conference in Paris (CSSP 2015), Paris, Oct 2015
An information-theoretic account of discourse relation processing
Psycholinguistics in Flanders (PiF), Namur, May 2015
The frequency of rapid pupil dilations as a predictor of linguistic
processing difficulty
Colloquium Koeln, May 2015
An information-theoretic account of discourse relation processing
Seminar Utrecht institute of Linguistics, March 2015
Invited Speaker at the workshop "Division of Labor: A View from
Syntax, Semantics, Information Structure and Processing
Tuebingen, January 2015
The Index of Cognitive Activity as a Measure of Linguistic Processing Difficulty
Cognitive Science Colloquium, Osnabrueck University, November 2014
The Index of Cognitive Activity as a Measure of Psycholinguistic
processing difficulty
KogWis Symposium "Eye tracking, linking hypotheses and measures in
language processing", Sept 2014
Processing discourse relations and connectors -- a psycholinguistic
experimental perspective
Invited talk at the 11th international congress on linguistics (CILG),
May 2014
An information-theoretic perspective on discourse relations and
discourse connectors
Linguistic Circle, PPLS, University of Edinburgh, Oct 3rd, 2013
Measuring (linguistically induced) cognitive load in realistic
dual-task settings
ILCC Seminar Series, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh,
Sept 30th, 2013
Measuring cognitive load in dual-task settings
SFB Kolloquium Bielefeld, May 13th, 2013
Prediction in Language Comprehension
Invited talk at University of Tübingen (Oberseminar Detmar Meurers), April 19th, 2013
Modelling Prediction in Language Processing
Invited Symposium Talk at KogWis 2012, Bamberg, Oct 2nd, 2012
Tree-Adjoining Grammars from a Psycholinguistic Perspective
Invited Tutorial at TAG+11 workshop, Paris, Sept 26th, 2012
Modelling Incrementality and Prediction in Human Sentence Processing
Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence, May 11th, 2012
Modelling Incrementality and Prediction in Syntax and Discourse using PL-TAG
Computerlinguistik Kolloquium, Universitaet Duesseldorf, May 3rd, 2012
Incrementality and Prediction in Syntax and Discourse
Linguistisches Kolloquium, Freie Universitaet Berlin, April 11th, 2012
Modelling Incrementality and Prediction in Syntax and Discourse
Computerlinguistik Kolloquium, Universitaet Potsdam, April 10th, 2012
A cognitive model of sentence processing using PsychoLinguistically
motivated Tree-Adjoining Grammar (PLTAG)
Common Ground seminar, Department of Psychology, University of
Pennsylvania, March 28th, 2012.
A cognitive model of sentence processing using PsychoLinguistically
motivated Tree-Adjoining Grammar (PLTAG)
CLUNCH seminar, Department of Computer Science, University of
Pennsylvania, March 22nd, 2012.
A cognitive model of sentence processing using PsychoLinguistically
motivated Tree-Adjoining Grammar (PLTAG)
Computational Linguistics Colloquium, Saarland University, April 28th 2011.
A cognitive model of sentence processing using PsychoLinguistically
motivated Tree-Adjoining Grammar (PLTAG)
invited talk at Incrementality in Linguistic and Musical Interaction
Workshop, Queen Mary University of London and King's College London, March 31st, 2011.
A Broad-Coverage Model of Prediction in Human Sentence Processing
Whamit! BCS Special Language Seminar, MIT, Boston, MA, Oct 2010.
Modelling Prediction in Human Sentence Processing
Invited talk at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation,
University of Amsterdam, Feb 2010.
Modelling Human Sentence Processing
(on YouTube)
Google Tech Talk, Mountain View, April 17th 2008.
User Modelling and Content Structuring for Information Presentation in
Spoken Dialog Systems
talk presented at Google,
Mountain View on February 15th 2008.
Other Talks and Posters
Evaluating Theories of Syntactic Processing Difficulty using Corpus Data - Do theories scale up to naturally occurring text?Vera Demberg
talk presented at the Psycholinguistics Postgraduate Conference, Edinburgh on May 2nd 2007. Abstract
The Influence of User Tailoring and
Processing Load on Performance in SDS Applications
Andi Winterboer and Vera Demberg
poster presented at the Language at Edinburgh Lunch, Edinburgh, March 2007.
A
Language-Independent Unsupervised Model for Morphological
Segmentation
Vera Demberg
talk presented in the Edinburgh
StatsNLP group on October 25th 2006.
A Predictive Model for Human Parsing
Vera Demberg
talk presented at International Graduate College Summer School, Firbush,
Scotland in September 2006.
Letter-to-Phoneme Conversion for a German
TTS System
Vera Demberg
talk presented at IMS, Stuttgart on May 31st 2006 and at IBM, Böblingen on
May 23rd 2006.
Information Presentation in Spoken Dialogue
Systems
Vera Demberg
poster presented at the Euromaster Summer School, Edinburgh, July 2005.