IRCS Technical Reports Series

Papers from 2009

Hierarchical regression modeling for language research, Kyle Gorman

Papers from 2007

Does television cause autism? A theoretical account., Benjamin Backus

Papers from 2006

The Penn Discourse TreeBank 1.0 Annotation Manual, Rashmi Prasad, Eleni Miltsakaki, Nikhil Dinesh, Alan Lee, Aravind Joshi, and Bonnie L. Webber

Papers from 2005

Of "Moice" and Men: The Evolution of Male-led Sound Change, Jeffrey C. Conn

Guidelines for Penn Korean Treebank Version 2.0, Na-Rae Han and Shijong Ryu

Constraints on Structual Borrowing in a Multilingual Contact Situation , Tara S. Sanchez

Papers from 2004

The Starry Night Texture, Xenophon Zabulis and Benjamin T. Backus

Papers from 2002

Verbs on the Fringe: Raising Verbs as Lexical Hazards, Misha Becker

Papers from 2001

Part of Speech Tagging Guidelines for Penn Korean Treebank, Chung-hye Han and Na-Rae Han

Bracketing Guidelines for Penn Korean TreeBank, Chung-hye Han, Na-Rae Han, and Eon-Suk Ko

Behaviorism and Naturalism*, Gary Hatfield

Perception as Unconscious Interference*, Gary Hatfield

Psychology Old and New, Gary Hatfield

The Brain's "New" Science: Psychology, Neurophysiology, and Constraint*, Gary Hatfield

Korean Americans as Speakers of English: the Acquisition of General and Regional Features, Hikyoung Lee

Kidz in the 'Hood: Syntactic Bootstrapping and the Mental Lexicon, Jeffrey Lidz, Henry Gleitman, and Lila Gleitman

Shake, rattle, 'n' roll: The representation of motion in language and cognition, Anna Papafragou, Christine Massey, and Lila Gleitman

Scalar Implicatures: Experiments at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface, Anna Papafragou and Julien Musolino

Object/relational query optimization with chase and backchase, Lucian Popa

A Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar for English, The XTAG Research Group

Separate modifiability, mental modules, and the use of pure and composite measures to reveal them, Saul Sternberg

Anaphora and Discourse Semantics, Bonnie L. Webber, Matthew Stone, Aravind Joshi, and Alistair Knott

Synthesis and Acquisition of Laban Movement Analysis Qualitative Parameters for Communicative Gestures, Liwei Zhao

Papers from 2000

The Development of the Copula in Child English: The Lightness of Be, Misha Karen Becker

Covert Modality in Non-Finite Contexts, Rajesh Bhatt

Leísta Spanish and the Syntax of Clitic Doubling, Tonia M. Bleam

A Feature-Based Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar for Korean, Chung-hye Han, Juntae Yoon, Nari Kim, and Martha Palmer

Turning the Tables: Language and Spatial Reasoning*, Peggy Li and Lila Gleitman

The Part-Of-Speech Tagging Guidelines for the Penn Chinese Treebank (3.0), Fei Xia

The Segmentation Guidelines for the Penn Chinese Treebank (3.0), Fei Xia

The Bracketing Guidelines for the Penn Chinese Treebank (3.0), Nianwen Xue, Fei Xia, Shizhe Huang, and Anthony Kroch

Papers from 1999

A Motion Control Scheme for Animating Expressive Arm Movements, Diane M. Chi

Where to Look? Automating Certain Visual Attending Behaviors of Human Characters, Sonu Chopra-Khullar

Path Constraints for Databases With or Without Schemas, Wenfei Fan

Tree Description Grammars and Underspecified Representations, Laura Kallmeyer

A Computational Analysis of Information Structure Using Parallel Expository Texts in English and Japanese, Nobo N. Komagata

Universal Grammar and the Acquisition of Semantic Knowledge: An Experimental Investigation into the Acquisition of Quantifier-Negation Interaction in English, Julien Musolino

Compostional Semantics for Unification-based Linguistics Formalisms, Shuly Wintner

Lifetime of Human Visual Sensory Memory: Properties and Neural Substrate, Wei Yang

Papers from 1998

Hybrid Languages and Temporal Logic, Patrick Blackburn and Miroslava Tzakova

Where To Look? Automating Some Visual Attending Behaviors of Human Characters, Sonu Chopra

Motion Planning and Control of Cooperative Robotic Systems, Jaydev P. Desai

Incorporating Punctuation Into the Sentence Grammar: A Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar Perspective, Christine D. Doran

Human Simulations of Vocabulary Learning, Jane Gillette, Henry Gleitman, Lila Gleitman, and Anne Lederer

The Structure and Interpretation of Imperatives: Mood and Force in Universal Grammar, Chung-hye Han

Determining Determiner Sequencing: A Syntactical Analysis for English, Beth Ann Hockey and Heather Mateyak

On Relational Completeness of Multi-Modal Categories Logics, Gerhard Jäger

On the generative capacity of multi-modal Categorial Grammars, Gerhard Jäger

A Formalism for Resource-Oriented Planning, Giorgi Japaridze

Computer-Assisted Writing System: Improving Readability with Respect to Information Structure, Nobo Komagata

Contrastive Function of Japanese Particle WA, Nobo Komagata

Information Extraction & Object Views, Zoé Lacroix

Annotation Style Guide for the Blinker Project, I. Dan Melamed

Manual Annotation of Translational Equivalence: The Blinker Project, I. Dan Melamed

Models of Co-occurrence, I. Dan Melamed

Pronunciation Modeling In Speech Synthesis, Corey Andrew Miller

Maximum Entropy Models For Natural Language Ambiguity Resolution, Adwait Ratnaparkhi

A Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar for English, The XTAG Research Group

Topic Segmentation: Algorithms And Applications, Jeffrey C. Reynar

Information Structure and the Syntax-Phonology Interface, Mark Steedman

Modality in Dialogue: Planning, Pragmatics and Computation, Matthew Stone

The Semantics and Acquisition of Time in Language, Laura Wagner

Papers from 1997

Complexity of Lexical Descriptions and its Relevance to Partial Parsing, Srinivas Bangalore

An Empirical Comparison of Probability Models for Dependency Grammar, Jason M. Eisner

A General Theory of Sharing Graphs, Stefano Guerrini

An Analysis of (Linear) Exponentials Based on Extended Sequents, Stefano Guerrini, Simone Martini, and Andrea Masini

Coherence for Sharing Proof-nets, Stefano Guerrini, Simone Martini, and Andrea Masini

Proof nets, Garbage, and Computations, Stefano Guerrini, Simone Martini, and Andrea Masini

Efficient Parsing for CCGs with Generalized Type-Raised Categories, Nobo Komagata

Generative Power of CCGs with Generalized Type-Raised Categories, Nobo Komagata

Negation of Noun Phrases with not, Heather Mateyak

Buglars, Babysitters, And Persons: A Sociolinguistic Study Of Generic Pronoun Usage In Philadelphia And Minneapolis, Lou Ann Matossian

An Image-Based Framework For Global Illumination In Animated Environments, Jeffry S. Nimeroff

A Simple Introduction to Maximum Entropy Models for Natural Language Processing, Adwait Ratnaparkhi

An Architecture For Behavioral Locomotion, Barry D. Reich

Yes/No Questions and Answers in the Map Task Corpus, Deborah Rossen-Knill, Beverly Spejewski, Beth Ann Hockey, Stephen Isard, and Matthew Stone

Functionality, Polymorphism, and Concurrency: A Mathematical Investigation of Programming Paradigms, Peter Selinger

Efficient Constraints on Possible Worlds for Reasoning about Necessity, Matthew Stone

Representing Scope in Intuitionistic Deductions, Matthew Stone

The Anaphoric Parallel between Modality and Tense, Matthew Stone

Acquiring Viewpoint Aspect One Level at a Time, Laura Wagner

Papers from 1996

Graphical Communicating Shared Resources: A Language for the Specification, Refinement, and Analysis of Real-Time Systems, Hanene Ben-Abdallah

Syntax and Discourse Factors in Early New High German: Evidence for Verb-Final Word Order, Ann Bies

Automatic Induction of Rules for Text Simplification, R. Chandrasekar and B. Srinivas

Gleaning Information from the Web: Using Syntax to Filter Out Irrelevant Information, R. Chandrasekar and B. Srinivas

Using Syntactic Information in Document Filtering: A Comparative Study of Part-of-Speech Tagging and Supertagging, R. Chandrasekar and B. Srinivas

Complexity and the Induction of Tree Adjoining Grammars, Robin Clark

Learning First Order Quantifier Denotations An Essay in Semantic Learnability, Robin Clark

Pipeline Rendering: Interaction and Realism Through Hardware-Based Multi-Pass Rendering, Paul Joseph Diefenbach

Critiquing: Effective Decision Support In Time-Critical Domains, Abigail S. Gertner

Parsing MELL Proof Nets, Stefano Guerrini and Andrea Masini

The Workings of the Intellect: Mind and Psychology, Gary Hatfield

Quantification and Predication in Mandarin Chinese: A Case Study of Dou, Shi-Zhe Huang

A Decidable Predicate Logic of Knowledge, Giorgi Japaridze

A Geometric Approach to Mapping Bitext Correspondence, I. Dan Melamed

Automatic Detection of Omissions in Translations, I. Dan Melamed

Porting SIMR to New Language Pairs, I. Dan Melamed

Model-Based Shape and Motion Analysis: Left Ventricle of a Heart, Jinah Park

A Lexical Theory of Quantification in Ambiguous Query Interpretation, Jong Cheol Park

Quantifier Scope, Lexical Semantics, and Surface Structure Constituency, Jong Cheol Park