Recent Publications

• Benjamin Bergen. To Appear. Experimental methods for simulation semantics. In Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Irene Mittelberg, Seana Coulson, and Michael J. Spivey (eds.) Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics: Ithaca.



• Benjamin Bergen. To Appear. Mental simulation in literal and figurative language. In Seana Coulson and Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (eds.) The Literal/Non-Literal Distinction.



• Benjamin Bergen and Kim Binsted. To Appear. Embodied grammars and linguistic humor. Humor: International Journal of Humor Research, 17.



• Benjamin Bergen and Nancy Chang. In Press. Embodied Construction Grammar in Simulation-Based Language Understanding. In Jan-Ola stman and Miriam Fried (Eds.), Construction Grammars: Cognitive grounding and theoretical extensions.



• J. Feldman and S. Narayanan (2004). Embodied Meaning in a Neural Theory of Language. Brain and Language 89 (2004), 385-392, Elsevier Press, 2004.



• S. Narayanan, S. Harabagiu (2004). Question Answering based on Semantic Structures. International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2004), Geneva, Switzerland, August 22-29, 2004.



• N. Chang, J. Feldman and S. Narayanan (2004). Structured Connectionist Models of Language, Cognition, and Action. Ninth Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop, Plymouth, September, 2004.



• S. Narayanan, S. Harabagiu (2004). Semantic Structures for Question Answering. HLT-NAACL tutorial, Boston, May 2004.



• S. Harabagiu, S. Narayanan (2004). Answering Questions using Advanced Semantics and Probabilistic Inference. Workshop on Pragmatics of Question Answering, HLT-NAACL, Boston, May 2004.



• N. Chang (2004). A computational model of comprehension-based construction acquisition. Child Language Research Forum. Stanford, CA. May 2004.



• N. Chang and O. Gurevich (2004). Context-Driven Construction Learning. Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Chicago, IL. August 2004.



• B. Bergen, N. Chang and S. Narayan (2004). Simulated Action in an Embodied Construction Grammar. Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Chicago, IL. August 2004.



• Benjamin Bergen and Kim Binsted. (2004). The cognitive linguistics of scalar humor. In Michel Achard and Suzanne Kemmer (Eds.) Language, Culture, and Mind. CSLI.



• Benjamin Bergen and Madelaine Plauche. (2004). Extensions of deictic and existential constructions in French: voil, voici, and il y a. Cognitive Linguistics 17.



• Benjamin Bergen. (2004). The psychological reality of phonaesthemes. Language, 80.



• Benjamin Bergen, Nancy Chang, and Shweta Narayan. (2004). Simulated Action in an Embodied Construction Grammar. Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.



• Shweta Narayan, Benjamin Bergen, and Zachary Weinberg. (2004). Embodied Verbal Semantics: Evidence from a Lexical Matching Task. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society.



• J. Bryant (2004). Scalable Construction Based Parsing and Semantic Analysis. SCANALU, May 2004, Boston



• E. Mok, J. Bryant, J. Feldman (2004). Scaling Understanding Up to Mental Spaces. SCANALU, May 2004, Boston



• J. Feldman and S. Narayanan (2003). Embodiment in a Neural Theory of Language. Brain and Language (accepted for publication).



• S. Narayanan, S. McIlraith (2003). Analysis and Simulation of Web Services. Computer Networks (accepted for publication).



• Benjamin Bergen, Shweta Narayan, and Jerome Feldman. (2003). Embodied verbal semantics: evidence from an image-verb matching task. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.



• Kim Binsted, Benjamin Bergen, and Justin McKay. (2003). Pun and non-pun humor in second-language learning. Proceedings of the Workshop on Humor Modeling in the Interface at Computer-Human Interaction (CHI).



• C. Wendelken and L. Shastri (2002). Combining belief and utility in a structured connectionist agent architecture. Proceedings of Cognitive Science 2002, Fairfax, VA, August 2002.



• L. Shastri (2002). A Computationally Efficient Abstraction of Long-term Potentiation. Neurocomputing. 44-46: 33-41. 2002.



• L. Shastri (2002). Episodic memory and cortico-hippocampal interactions. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 6: 162-168. April 2002.



• C. Ranganath, L. Shastri, and M. D'Esposito (2002). A new view of the medial temporal lobes and the structure of memory. TR-02-001. February 2002.



• N. Chang, J. Feldman, R. Porzel, and K. Sanders (2002). Scaling Cognitive Linguistics: Formalisms for Language Understanding.



• N. Chang, S. Narayanan, and M.R.L. Petruck (2002). Putting Frames in Perspective. Proceedings COLING 2002.



• S. Narayanan, C.J. Fillmore, C.F. Baker, M.R.L. Petruck (2002). FrameNet Meets the Semantic Web: A DAML+OIL Frame Representation.

• Terry Regier (1996). The Human Semantic Potential.



• D. Bailey, J. Feldman, S. Narayanan, G. Lakoff (1997). Modeling Embodied Lexical Development .

• S. Narayanan (1999). Moving Right Along: A Computational Model of Metaphoric Reasoning about Events.



• N. Chang, D. Gildea, S. Narayanan (1998). A Dynamic Model of Aspectual Composition.



• S. Narayanan and D. Jurafsky (1998). Bayesian Models of Human Sentence Processing.



• B.K. Bergen and N. Chang (2003). Embodied Construction Grammar in Simulation-Based Language Understanding.

• George Lakoff's work on categorization and metaphor provides a linguistic starting point: Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things (1987) and (with Mark Johnson) Metaphors We Live By (1980).



• Jerry Feldman's contributions to connectionism serve as our computational foundation: Connectionist Representation of Concepts. In D. Waltz and J. A. Feldman (eds.), Connectionist Models and Their Applications (1988).



• Lokendra Shastri's SHRUTI model is a structured connectionist implementation of relational reasoning in which variable binding is achieved by temporal synchrony. Lokendra Shastri and Venkat Ajjanagadde (1993). From simple associations to systematic reasoning (table | figures(1) | figures(2)).



• L₀: The First Five Years (1996). The forerunner of NTL was the L₀ project (see here for a brief history).