Invited Talks

Anaphora and Predictability in Humans and Large Language Models: The Case of Ellipsis

• Workshop on Anaphora and Predictability, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, April 29, 2024.

Predicting Structure That Never Comes: Toward Resolving The Great Ellipsis Debate

• LingCologne2023: Prediction in Language, Cologne, Germany, June 17, 2023

Conversational Eliciture: Theory and Applications

• The Construction of Meaning: The Dynamics and Adaptivity of Linguistic Structures, Universität Tübingen March 5, 2021.

Mismatched Ellipses are Easy to Create if You Know How: Ellipsis, Reference, and the QUD

• Information Structure and Ambiguity: The Process of Integrating Sentences into Discourse, Universität Tübingen, October 7-8, 2019.

Toward a Bayesian Computational Model of Pronoun Interpretation

• Computer Science Departmental Colloquium, Pomona College, February 7, 2019

Prominence in a Referential Theory of VP-ellipsis

• Keynote at Prominence in Language 2018, Cologne, Germany, July 11-13, 2018.

Conversational Eliciture

• At-Issue, Scope, and Coherence Workshop, University of Cologne, July 10, 2018
• Keynote at Workshop on Experimental and Corpus-based Approaches to Ellipsis, 2017 LSA Institute, University of Kentucky, July 29, 2017.

Conversational Eliciture in a Bayesian Model of Language Interpretation

• Keynote at Joint SEMdial and SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialog, Saarbrücken, Germany, August 15-17, 2017.

Opportunities and Challenges for a Bayesian Approach to Language Processing

• Uphill Battles in Language Processing workshop, Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Conference (EMNLP), 2016.

Opportunities and Challenges for a Referential Theory of VP-Ellipsis

• Keynote at Workshop on Experimental and Corpus-based Approaches to Ellipsis, 2017 LSA Institute, University of Kentucky, July 29, 2017.

A Bayesian Model of Pronoun Production and Interpretation

• Cognitive Science 200 class presentation, February 13, 2015.
• Experimental Linguistics Seminar, Universite Paris Diderot, March 27, 2015.
• Keynote at Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics 2015, Denver, CO, June 4, 2015.
• Keynote at Workshop on Coreference Resolution Beyond OntoNotes, held at the 15th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Associatoin for Computational Linguistics, San Diego, CA, June 16, 2016.
• Google Inc., Mountain View, CA, August 18, 2016.
• Prominence Research Group meeting, University of Cologne, July 16, 2018
• Keynote at Information Structure in Spoken Language Corpora 3: Discourse and Information Structure, Universität Münster, December 7-8, 2018

Testing for Common Sense: Thoughts on Pronoun Interpretation and the Winograd Schema Challenge

• Workshop on Language & Common Sense: Integrating Across Psychology, Linguistics, and Computer Science, held at the 2015 Cognitive Science Society meeting, Pasadena, June 22, 2015.

Prominence and Coherence in a Bayesian Theory of Pronoun Interpretation

• 48th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Workshop on Prominence in Pragmatics, Leiden, September 2-5, 2015.

Ellipsis and Discourse

• Two-day lecture, Universite Paris Diderot, March, 2015.

On QUD-based Licensing of Strict and Sloppy Ambiguities

• Linglunch, Universite Paris Diderot, March 26, 2015.

Conversational Eliciture

• Keynote at the Textlink Action conference, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, January 26-28, 2015. Cognition and Language Workshop, Stanford University, October 29, 2015.
• Semantics, Pragmatics and Language Philosophy (SPLAP) Workshop on Semantics & Cognition, University of California Santa Cruz, February 6, 2016.
• Maryland Mayfest, University of Maryland, May 7, 2016.
• Making Sense of Discourse, Utrecht, September 20, 2018.

A Neo-Humean Taxonomy of Coherence Relations

• Textlink Action conference, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, January 26-28, 2015.

The Effect of Inferred Explanations on Pronoun Production and Interpretation

• Second Conference of the American Pragmatics Association (panel on Computational and Experimental Approaches to Reference and Anaphoric Inference), UCLA, October 2014.

A Probabilistic Reconciliation of Coherence-Driven and Centering-Driven Theories of Pronoun Interpretation

• Keynote at the 33rd Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), Gottingen, February 2011.
• Keynote at the Constraints on Discourse conference, Var, France, September 2011.
• Context Dependence in Language and Communication series, Stanford University, November 2012.
• Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California, September 2012.
• Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers University, April 2013.

The English Referential System (A Tutorial)

• Context Dependence in Language and Communication series, Stanford University, November 2012

Hume's Principles of Connection: Applications to Discourse Interpretation

• 84th Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division, San Francisco, April 2010.

Ellipsis and Anaphora in a QUD Model of Discourse

• University of Michigan Workshop in Philosophy and Linguistics, October 2009.

Coherence and the (Psycho-) Linguistics of Pronoun Interpretation

• Department of Linguistics, University of Minnesota, May 2005
• Department of Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin, September 2007
• Department of Linguistics, Stanford University, October 12, 2007
• Department of Linguistics, University of California Santa Cruz, October 2007.
• Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University, May 2008.
• Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University, December 2008.
• Natural Language Seminar Series, University of Southern California / Information Sciences Institute, May 2009.

Coherence: A Building Block of Language

• Human Development Program, UC San Diego, June 2007.

Coherence and Coreference Revisited <

• San Diego State University, November, 2000.
• University of California Los Angeles, February, 2003.
• University of Pennsylvania, April, 2003.

The (Computational) (Psycho-) Linguistics of Pronoun Interpretation

• Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, March 2005.
• Department of Computer Science, Ohio State University, April 2005.

Coherence-Driven Constraints on the Placement of Accent

• Interdisciplinary Pragmatics Reading Group, Ohio State University, April 2005.

Adventures in Statistical Pronoun Interpretation

• Center for Research and Language, UC San Diego, April 2004.
• Analytic Science Group, Fair Isaac Corporation, May 2004.
• MedLang Research Group, University of Minnesota, May 2005.
• Graduate Class Seminar, Stanford University, October 11, 2007.

Adventures in Learning Discourse Interpretation Strategies for Information Extraction

• Center for Language and Speech Processing, Johns Hopkins University, November, 1999.

Coherence, Reference, and the Theory of Grammar

• 7th Annual CSLI Workshop on Logic, Language, and Computation, Stanford University, May, 1998
• Northwestern University, November, 1998.
• University of California San Diego, February, 1999.
• International Computer Science Institute, University of California Berkeley, October, 1999.