Vera Demberg - Publications
Journal Articles
Examples and specifications that prove a point: Distinguishing between elaborative and argumentative discourse relations.Merel C. J. Scholman and Vera Demberg.
to appear in Dialogue and Discourse, 2017.
Modeling semantic expectations:
Using script knowledge for referent prediction.
Ashutosh Modi, Ivan Titov, Vera Demberg, Asad Sayeed, and Manfred
Pinkal.
Transactions of the
Association for Computational
Linguistics (TACL), 2017.
Salience and attention in surprisal-based accounts of language
processing
A Zarcone, M van Schijndel, J Vogels, V Demberg
Frontiers in Psychology 7, 844, 2016
The Frequency of Rapid Pupil Dilations as a Measure of Linguistic
Processing Difficulty
Vera Demberg and Asad Sayeed, 2016
PLOS ONE
An Exploration of Semantic Features in an Unsupervised Thematic Fit
Evaluation Framework
Asad Sayeed, Vera Demberg and Pavel Shkadzko
IJCoL vol. 1: Emerging Topics at the First Italian
Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2015
Incremental, Predictive Parsing with Psycholinguistically Motivated Tree-Adjoining
Grammar.
Vera Demberg, Frank Keller and Alexander Koller, 2013
In Computational Linguistics, Vol. 39, No. 4, pages 1025--1066
A Strategy for Information Presentation in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Vera Demberg, Andi Winterboer and Johanna D. Moore, 2011
In Computational Linguistics, September 2011, Vol. 37, No. 3: 489-539.
Data from Eye-tracking
Corpora as Evidence for Theories of Syntactic Processing Complexity
Vera Demberg and Frank Keller, 2008
In Cognition, Volume 109, Issue 2, pages 193-210
(pre-print)
Peer-reviewed Conference and Workshop Papers
Age differences in language comprehension during driving: Recovery from prediction errors is more effortful for older adultsKatja Häuser, Jutta Kray and Vera Demberg
In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci), London, 2017.
Crowdsourcing discourse
interpretations: On the influence of context
and the reliability of a connective insertion task.
Merel Scholman and Vera Demberg.
In Proceedings of
the Linguistic Annotation Workshop
(LAW), 2017.
A systematic
study of neural discourse models for
implicit discourse relation.
Attapol T. Rutherford, Vera Demberg, and Nianwen Xue.
In Proceedings of the European Chapter of
the Association for Computational
Linguistics (EACL), 2017.
Psycholinguistic models of sentence
processing improve sentence readability
ranking.
David Howcroft and Vera Demberg.
In Proceedings of the European Chapter of the Association for
Computational Linguistics
(EACL), 2017.
On the need of cross validation for
discourse relation classification.
Wei Shi and Vera Demberg.
In Proceedings
of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (EACL), 2017.
From openccg to ai planning:
Detecting infeasible edges in sentence generation.
M. Schwenger, A. Torralba, J. Hoffmann, D. Howcroft, and
V. Demberg.
In Proceedings of
the 26th International Conference on
Computational Linguistics (Coling 16), Osaka, Japan, 2016.
Event participant modelling
with neural networks.
Ottokar Tilk, Vera Demberg, Asad B. Sayeed, Dietrich Klakow, and
Stefan Thater
In Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on
Empirical Methods in Natural
Language Processing, EMNLP 2016, Austin, Texas, USA, November 1-4,
2016, pages 171–182, 2016.
Roleo: Visualising Thematic Fit Spaces on the Web
Asad Sayeed, Xudong Hong and Vera Demberg
Demo Paper at ACL 2016, Berlin, Germany
Thematic fit evaluation: an aspect of selectional preferences
Asad Sayeed, Clayton Greenberg and Vera Demberg
The First Workshop on Evaluating Vector Space Representations for NLP
at ACL 2016
But vs. Although under the microscope
Fatemeh Torabi Asr and Vera Demberg
Proceedings of CogSci 2016
LingoTurk: managing crowdsourced tasks for psycholinguistics Authors
Florian Pusse, Asad Sayeed and Vera Demberg
Proceedings of NAACL/HLT 2016 Demo Papers, June 2016, San Diego
Improving event prediction by representing script participants
Simon Ahrendt and Vera Demberg
Proceedings of NAACL/HLT 2016, June 2016, San Diego
Annotating Discourse RElations in Spoken Language: A Comparison of the
PDTB and CCR Frameworks
Ines Rehbein, Merel Scholman and Vera
Demberg
Proceedings of LREC 2016, May 2016, Portoroz
Towards Flexible, Small-Domain Surface Generation: Combining
Data-Driven and Grammatical Approaches
Andrea Fischer, Vera Demberg, Dietrich Klakow
Proceedings of the 15th European Workshop on Natural Language
Generation (ENLG),
Brighton, September 2015, pp. 105-108
Search Challenges in Natural Language Generation with Complex
Optimization Objectives
Vera Demberg, Joerg Hoffmann, David Howcroft, Dietrich Klakow and
Alvaro Torralba
in Kuenstliche Intelligenz, Special Issue on Companion Technologies 2015
Information Density and Linguistic Encoding (IDeaL)
Matthew Crocker, Vera Demberg and Elke Teich
in Kuenstliche Intelligenz, Special Issue on Companion Technologies 2015
Vector-space calculation of semantic surprisal for
predicting word pronunciation duration
Asad Sayeed, Stefan Fischer and Vera Demberg
in Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (ACL 2015).
Semantically underinformative utterances trigger pragmatic
inferences
Ekaterina Kravtchenko and Vera
Demberg
in Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science
Society, CogSci 2015.
Verb polysemy and frequency effects in thematic fit
modeling
Clayton Greenberg, Vera Demberg and Asad
Sayeed
Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational
Linguistics at NAACL, 2015.
Learning to predict script events from domain-specific
text
Rachel Rudinger, Vera Demberg, Ashutosh Modi, Benjamin Van Durme and
Manfred Pinkal
Proceedings of the fourth joint conference on
lexical and computational semantics (*SEM), 2015.
Improving
unsupervised vector-space thematic fit evaluation via role-filler
prototype clustering.
Clayton Greenberg, Asad Sayeed, and Vera
Demberg.
In Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational
Linguistics Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT), 2015.
Uniform Information Density at the Level of Discourse Relations:
Negation Markers and Discourse Connective Omission
Fatemeh Torabi Asr and Vera Demberg
in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational
Semantics (IWCS 2015)
Combining unsupervised syntactic and semantic models of
thematic fit
Asad Sayeed and Vera Demberg
in Proceedings of the first Italian Conference on Computational
Linguistics (CLiC-it 2014)
Incremental Semantic Role Labeling with Tree Adjoining
Grammar.
Konstas, Ioannis, Frank Keller, Vera Demberg, and Mirella
Lapata.
In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in
Natural Language Processing. 2014. Doha.
Incremental and predictive discourse processing based on
causal and concessive discourse markers: ERP studies on German and English
Heiner Drenhaus, Vera Demberg, Judith Koehne and Francesca Delogu
in the Proceedings of
the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci
2014).
Measuring
linguistically-induced cognitive load during driving using the ConTRe
task
Vera Demberg, Asad Sayeed, Angela Mahr and Christian Müller
In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Automotive User
Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutoUI), Oct 2013,
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
The semantic augmentation of a
psycholinguistically-motivated syntactic formalism
Asad Sayeed and Vera Demberg
In Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational
Linguistics (CMCL) 2013, Sofia, Bulgaria
On the Information Conveyed by Discourse Markers
Fatemeh Torabi Asr and Vera Demberg
In Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational
Linguistics (CMCL) 2013, Sofia, Bulgaria
Discourse Connectives give rise to lexical predictions
Judith Köhne and Vera Demberg
DETEC workshop 2013, Tübingen, Germany
Language and cognitive load in a dual task environment
Nikolaos Engonopoulos, Asad Sayeed and Vera Demberg
In M. Knauff, M., Pauen, N., Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.) Proceedings of
the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society(CogSci
2013, Berlin). Austin
TX: Cognitive Science Society.
The Index of Cognitive Activity as a Measure of Linguistic Processing
Vera Demberg and Evangelia Kiagia and Asad Sayeed
In M. Knauff, M., Pauen, N., Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.) Proceedings of
the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci
2013, Berlin). Austin TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Pupillometry: the Index of Cognitive Activity in a dual-task study
Vera Demberg
In M. Knauff, M., Pauen, N., Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.) Proceedings of
the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci
2013, Berlin). Austin TX: Cognitive Science Society.
The Time-course of Processing Discourse Connectives
Judith Köhne and Vera Demberg
In M. Knauff, M., Pauen, N., Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.) Proceedings of
the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci
2013, Berlin). Austin TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Integration Costs on Auxiliaries? -- a self-paced reading
study using WebExp
Vera Demberg
In M. Knauff, M., Pauen, N., Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.) Proceedings of
the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci
2013, Berlin). Austin TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Identifying Predictive Collocations
Silas Weinbach and Vera Demberg
In M. Knauff, M., Pauen, N., Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.) Proceedings of
the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci
2013, Berlin). Austin TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Covert without overt: QR for movementless parsing
frameworks
Asad Sayeed and Vera Demberg
GLOW 2013, Lund, Sweden
Measuring the Strength of Linguistic Cues for Discourse Relations
Fatemeh Torabi Asr and Vera Demberg
In Proceedings of the Workshop on Advances in Discourse Analysis and its Computational Aspects (ADACA), Mumbai, India, Dec 2012
Implicitness of Discourse Relations
Fatemeh Torabi Asr and Vera Demberg
In Proceedings of COLING 2012, Mumbai, India, Dec 2012 (acc. rate 30%)
Incremental Neo-Davidsonian semantic construction for TAG
Asad B. Sayeed and Vera Demberg
In Proceedings of TAG+11, Paris, France, Sept 2012
Incremental Derivations in CCG
Vera Demberg
In Proceedings of TAG+11, Paris, France, Sept 2012
Syntactic surprisal affects spoken
word duration in conversational contexts
Vera Demberg, Asad Sayeed, Philip Gorinski and Nikolaos Engonopoulos
In Proceedings of EMNLP-CoNNL 2012
German and English Treebanks and Lexica for
Tree-Adjoining Grammars
Miriam Käshammer and Vera Demberg
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Language
Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2012), Istanbul, May 2012
Lingistic cognitive load: implications for automotive UIs
Vera Demberg and Asad Sayeed
Workshop on Cognitive Load and In-Vehicle Human-Machine
Interaction at AutomotiveUI 2011, Salzburg, Austria, November 2011
Syntactic and Semantic Factors in Processing
Difficulty: An Integrated Measure
Jeff Mitchell, Mirella Lapata, Vera Demberg and Frank Keller
In Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (ACL-10), Uppsala, Sweden, July 2010.
A Computational Model of Prediction in Human Parsing: Unifying Locality and Surprisal Effects
Vera Demberg and Frank Keller
In Proceedings of the 29th meeting of the Cognitive Science
Society (CogSci-09), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 2009.
Correcting the incorrect: Local coherence effects modeled with prior belief update
Klinton Bicknell, Roger Levy and Vera Demberg
In Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics
Society (BLS). Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society. pp. 13-24.
2009.
Syntactic Complexity induces
Explicit Grounding in the MapTask corpus
Martin Tietze, Vera Demberg and Johanna D. Moore
In Proceedings of the Interspeech 2008, Brisbane, Australia,
September 2008.
A Psycholinguistically Motivated Version of TAG
Vera Demberg and Frank Keller, 2008
In Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining
Grammars and Related Formalisms (TAG+9 2008), Tuebingen, Germany, June
2008.
Slides
Eye-tracking Evidence for Integration Cost
Effects in Corpus Data
Vera Demberg and Frank Keller, 2007
In Proceedings of the 29th meeting of the Cognitive Science
Society (CogSci-07), Nashville, Tennessee, US, August 2007.
Phonological Constraints and Morphological
Preprocessing for Grapheme-to-phoneme Conversion
Vera Demberg, Helmut Schmid and Gregor Möhler, 2007
In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (ACL-07), Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007.
Slides
A Language-Independent
Unsupervised Model for Morphological Segmentation
Vera Demberg, 2007
In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (ACL-07), Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007.
Slides
Information Presentation in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Vera Demberg and Johanna D. Moore, 2006
In Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the
Association of Computational Linguistics (EACL-06), Trento, Italy,
April 2006.
Slides
Theses
A Broad-Coverage Model of Prediction in Human Sentence Processing(complete thesis, 12-page precis)
Vera Demberg, 2010
PhD Thesis, The University of Edinburgh.
awarded Robert J. Glushko Dissertation Prize 2011
runner-up for 2011 CPHC / BCS Distinguished Dissertations Competition
runner-up for FoLLI E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize 2011
Letter-to-Phoneme Conversion for a German
Text-to-Speech System
Vera Demberg, 2006
Diplomarbeit, Stuttgart University.
published as book by Verlag Dr. Müller (VDM), ISBN:
978-3-8364-6428-4 (from
Amazon.com)
Information Presentation in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Vera Demberg, 2005
Master's Thesis, The University of Edinburgh.
published as book by Verlag Dr. Müller (VDM), ISBN:
978-3-8364-6536-6 (from
Amazon.com)
Peer-reviewed Conference Presentations and Posters
The Role of Adverbial Modification on the Prediction of Upcoming VerbsVera Demberg, Evangelia Kiagia and Francesca Delogu
oral presentation at CUNY 2015; USC, Los Angeles, USA
On the predictability of idioms after idiomatic and non-idiomatic contexts: An ERP study
Vera Demberg and Heiner Drenhaus
poster at CUNY 2015; USC, Los Angeles, USA
A discourse connector's distribution determines its interpretation
Fatemeh Torabi Asr and Vera Demberg
poster at CUNY 2015; USC, Los Angeles, USA
Underinformative event mentions trigger pragmatic inferences
Ekaterina Kravtchenko and Vera Demberg
poster at CUNY 2015; USC, Los Angeles, USA
“On the one hand†as a Cue to the Comprehension of Discourse Structure
Vera Demberg, Hannah Rohde, Merel Scholman, Chris Cummins, Emily Nicolet
talk at the First Action Conference of the TextLink Cost Initiative "Structuring Discourse in Multilingual Europe" 2015, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
A distributional account of discourse connectives and its effect on fine-grained inferences
Fatemeh Torabi Asr and Vera Demberg
poster at the First Action Conference of the TextLink Cost Initiative "Structuring Discourse in Multilingual Europe" 2015, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Discourse annotation via MechanicalTurk
Vera Demberg, Asad Sayeed, Florian Pusse
poster at the First Action Conference of the TextLink Cost Initiative "Structuring Discourse in Multilingual Europe" 2015, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Pupillometry -- the Index of Cognitive Activity as a Measure of Linguistic Processing Difficulty
Vera Demberg, Asad Sayeed, Nikos Engonopoulos and Evangelia Kiagia
oral presentation to be presented at AMLaP 2013, Marseille, France
Incremental and predictive discourse processing based on causal and concessive discourse markers: an ERP study on German
Heiner Drenhaus, Vera Demberg, Judith Köhne and Francesca Delogu
poster to be presented at AMLaP 2013, Marseille, France
Can neighboring relations help to anticipate upcoming discourse relations?
Fatemeh Torabi Asr and Vera Demberg
poster to be presented at AMLaP 2013, Marseille, France
Identifying Predictive Collocations
Silas Weinbach and Vera Demberg
poster to be presented at AMLaP 2013, Marseille, France
Discourse expectations and implicitness of (causal) discourse relations
Fatemeh Torabi Asr and Vera Demberg
poster presented at AMLaP 2012, Riva del Garda, Italy
Syntactic surprisal affects word durations: Support for UID
Vera Demberg, Asad Sayeed, Philip John Gorinski, and Nikos Engonopoulos
poster presented at AMLaP 2012, Riva del Garda, Italy
Incremental and predictive discourse processing based on causal and concessive discourse markers -- A visual world study (abstract)
Judith Köhne and Vera Demberg
talk (acceptance rate for talks: 8%) presented at CUNY 2012, New York, NY
Integration Costs on Auxiliaries -- a self-paced reading study using WebExp (abstract)
Vera Demberg
poster presented at CUNY 2012, New York, NY
Modelling prediction to estimate human sentence processing difficulty (abstract)
Vera Demberg
talk presented at DGfS AG 11: Information Density and Linguistic Variation, Frankfurt, March 2012
Explaining the Relative Clause Asymmetry (abstract)
Vera Demberg, Frank Keller and Roger Levy
poster presented at CUNY 2011, Stanford, CA
An empirical investigation and new model of local coherences.
Klinton Bicknell, Roger Levy and Vera Demberg.
Oral presentation at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco, CA, 8--11 January 2009.
A Theory of Processing Difficulty
Based on Syntactic Prediction
Vera Demberg and
Frank Keller
poster presented at AMLaP 2008, Cambridge,
UK in September 2008
Evidence for the prediction of
modifiers during sentence processing
Manabu Arai, Frank Keller
and Vera Demberg
poster presented at AMLaP 2008, Cambridge,
UK in September 2008
A Theory of Processing Difficulty
Based on Syntactic Prediction (abstract)
Vera Demberg and
Frank Keller
poster presented at CUNY 2008, Chapel Hill,
North Carolina in March 2008
Integrating Surprisal and Dependency
Locality Theory: A Broad Coverage Model (abstract)
Vera Demberg and
Frank Keller
poster presented at CUNY 2008, Chapel Hill,
North Carolina in March 2008
Local coherences in the
wild: An eye-tracking corpus study
Klinton Bicknell, Vera
Demberg and Roger Levy
poster presented at CUNY 2008,
Chapel Hill, North Carolina in March 2008
Do Theories of Syntactic Processing
Difficulty scale up to naturally occurring text? (slides)
Vera Demberg and Frank Keller
talk presented at AMLaP 2007, Turku, Finland, on August 25th 2007.
Abstract
AMLaP Young Scientist Award for best platform
presentation by a junior scientist.
Eye-tracking evidence for frequency and
integration cost effects in corpus data (slides)
Vera Demberg, Frank Keller and Roger Levy
talk presented at CUNY 2007, San Diego, CA on March 31st 2007.
Abstract