Vera Demberg - Publications


Theses

A Broad-Coverage Model of Prediction in Human Sentence Processing
Vera Demberg, 2010
PhD Thesis, The University of Edinburgh.

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)

Journal Articles

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 Papers

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

Peer-reviewed Conference Presentations and Posters

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

Other Talks and Posters

Modelling Human Sentence Processing (on YouTube)
Vera Demberg
Google Tech Talk, Mountain View, April 17th 2008.

User Modelling and Content Structuring for Information Presentation in Spoken Dialog Systems
Vera Demberg
talk presented at Google, Mountain View on February 15th 2008.

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.