Our Students' Spring 2005 seminar

Abstracts and Presentations from the Spring 2007 ITR Seminar

Talks

Brennan, S. E. (2007). Adventures with dialects: Convergence and ambiguity resolution by partners in conversation. Invited talk, Leverhulme Dialogue Consortium, London, England (Feb. 14-15, 2007).

Stenchikova, S., Mucha, B., Hoffman, S., & Stent, A. (2007). RavenCalendar: A multimodal dialog system for managing a personal calendar. Proceedings, HLT/NAACL 2007.

Galati, A. & Brennan, S. E. (2006). Given-New Attenuation Effects in Spoken Discourse: For the Speaker, or for the Addressee?  Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 47th Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX.

Brennan, S. E. (2006). Solitary vs. collaborative cognition: When 2 and 2 makes 3 (or is it 5?).  Invited talk, Workshop on Embodied Communication, Joint Action, Social Communication, ZIF Interdisciplinary Center, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany (July 2006).

Brennan, S. E. (2006). Adapting to partners in dialogue.  Invited talk, Occasional Talks in Speech, Language and Cognition, NLP Group, Columbia University, New York, NY (April 6).

Brennan, S. E. (2006). Elements of Visual Co-Presence and their Impact on Miscommunication and Repair.  Invited talk, Miscommunication Workshop, Queen Mary Univ. of London, England (Jan. 26-27).

Stent, A., Stenchikova, S., & Marge, M. (2006). Dialog systems for surveys: The Rate-a-Course system. Proceedings, IEEE/ACL 2006 Workshop on Spoken Language Technology.

Kuhlen, A. (2006). Effects of Speakers' Attributions to Listeners' Feedback Behavior . Talk given at the First International Spring Break Meeting of the Friends of Group Research. CUNY Brooklyn College, NY.

Galati, A. (2006). The role of gesture in spoken dialog systems: A position paper. Proceedings, 2nd Annual Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems, pp. 23-24, Pittsburgh: PA.

Leach, L.M., & Samuel, A.G. (2005). Entering the Lexicon: Form and Function. Paper presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto.

Sumner, M., & Samuel, A.G (2005).  Long-term activation of lexical and sublexical representations. Paper presented at the Cognitive Science Association for Interdisciplinary Learning, Hood River, Oregon.

Zhong, H., Stent, A., & Swift, M. (2006). Modeling the dative alternation with automatically extracted features. Proceedings, Workshop on Statistical and Empirical Approaches for Spoken Dialog Systems at AAAI 2006.

Brennan, S. E. (2005)    Looking and speaking in dialogue:  Coordination signals and visual co-presence.  Invited talk, Status-Colloquium on Theories of Dialogue, Bielefeld University, Germany (November 17-19).

Brennan, S. E. (2005).    Coordinating understanding and adapting to partners.  Invited talk, Dialogue Matters Workshop, Leverhulme Dialogue Consortium, Edinburgh, Scotland (August 13-15).

Hanna, J. E. & Brennan, S. E. (2005).  The flexible use of eye gaze in face-to-face communication.   Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 46th Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada.

Brennan, S. E., Dickinson, C., Chen, X., Neider, M., & Zelinsky, G. (2005).  When Eyegaze Speaks Louder than Words: Advantages of Shared Gaze for Coordinating a Collaborative Search Task.   Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 46th Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada.

Huffman, M. (2005). Syllabification effects on the acoustic structure of intervocalic /r/.  Paper presented at the 150th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America.

Huffman, M. (2005). The time course of pronunciation changes in ?clearer? speech.  Invited lecture, April 2005, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Speech Group.

Kraljic, T., Samuel. A.G. & Brennan, S.E. (2005). How does one speakers pronunciation affect another's? Effects of idiosyncratic pronunciation on linguistic representation. Talk given at the Conference for Embodied Communication in Humans and Machines: A Research Agenda. Zentrum fur interdisziplinare Forschung (ZiF), Bielefeld, Germany.

Kraljic, T. (2005). How'd they do that? Partner-driven effects on linguistic processing and representation. Invited talk at the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, EHESS-ENS-CNRS, Paris, France; the Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, Universite de Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, France; and the Laboratoire de Psychologie expérimentale, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

Kraljic, T., Samuel, A. G., Liu, S. & de la Piedad, X. (2004). Are both languages of a bilingual automatically activated by spoken input? Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 45th Annual Meeting (poster), Minneapolis, MN, November 18-21. PDF

Hanna, J.E. & Brennan, S. E. (2004).  Using a Speaker's Eyegaze During Comprehension: A Cue Both Rapid and Flexible.  Proceedings, 17th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (p. 135), College Park, MD.

Samuel, A. G. & Kraljic, T. (2004). Perceptual Learning: Evidence for Dynamic Phonemic Representations. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 45th Annual Meeting (spoken presentation), Minneapolis, MN, November 18-21.

Sumner, M. & Samuel, A. G. (2004). The Effect of Cross-language Variation on Perception and Lexical Access. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 45th Annual Meeting (poster), Minneapolis, MN, November 18-21.

Sumner, M. & Samuel, A. G. (2004). The Effect on Lexical Access of Phonologically Regular Variation. Poster presented at From Sound to Sense: Fifty + Years of Discoveries in Speech Communication, MIT, June 11-13, 2004.

Brennan, S. E. (2004). Converging while conversing: Where do partner-specific effects come from? Invited talk, Workshop on Alignment in Communication, ZIF Interdisciplinary Center, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany.

Brennan, S. E. (2004). Adaptive spoken dialogue with human and computer partners: Implications for autonomic systems. Keynote address, IBM Conference on Human Impact and Application of AutonomicComputing Systems (CHIACS2), TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY.

Kraljic, T. & Brennan, S.E. (2003). Prosodic disambiguation of syntactic structure: For the speaker or for the addressee? Paper abstracts of the 16th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, MIT, Cambridge, MA.

Kraljic, T. & Samuel, A.G. (2003). How general is lexically-driven perceptual learning of phonetic identity? Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 44th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC.PPT

Kraljic, T. & Brennan, S.E. (2002). Use of prosody and optional words to disambiguate utterances. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 43rd Annual Meeting (pp. 27-28), Kansas City, MO.