2019
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Vogels, Jorrig; Howcroft, David M; Tourtouri, Elli; Demberg, Vera How speakers adapt object descriptions to listeners under load Journal Article Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, pp. 1-15, 2019. Links | BibTeX @article{Vogels2019,
title = {How speakers adapt object descriptions to listeners under load},
author = {Jorrig Vogels and David M. Howcroft and Elli Tourtouri and Vera Demberg},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2019.1648839},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-08-01},
journal = {Language, Cognition and Neuroscience},
pages = {1-15},
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Tröger, Johannes; Linz, Nicklas; König, Alexandra; Robert, Philippe; Alexandersson, Jan; Peter, Jessica; Kray, Jutta Exploitation vs. Exploration - Computational temporal and semantic analysis explains semantic verbal fluency impairment in Alzheimer’s disease Journal Article Neuropsychologia, 131 , pp. 53-61, 2019. Abstract | Links | BibTeX @article{Tr\"{o}ger2019,
title = {Exploitation vs. Exploration - Computational temporal and semantic analysis explains semantic verbal fluency impairment in Alzheimer’s disease},
author = {Johannes Tr\"{o}ger and Nicklas Linz and Alexandra K\"{o}nig and Philippe Robert and Jan Alexandersson and Jessica Peter and Jutta Kray},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0028393218305116?via%3Dihub
},
doi = {10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.05.007},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-08-00},
journal = {Neuropsychologia},
volume = {131},
pages = {53-61},
abstract = {Impaired Semantic Verbal Fluency (SVF) in dementia due to Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and its precursor Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is well known. Yet, it remains open whether this impairment mirrors the breakdown of semantic memory retrieval processes or executive control processes. Therefore, qualitative analysis of the SVF has been proposed but is limited in terms of methodology and feasibility in clinical practice. Consequently, research draws no conclusive picture which of these afore-mentioned processes drives the SVF impairment in AD and MCI. This study uses a qualitative computational approach - combining temporal and semantic information - to investigate exploitation and exploration patterns as indicators for semantic memory retrieval and executive control processes. Audio SVF recordings of 20 controls (C, 66-81 years), 55 MCI (57-94 years) and 20 AD subjects (66-82 years) were assessed while groups were matched according to age and education. All groups produced, on average, the same amount of semantically related items in rapid succession within word clusters. Conversely, towards AD, there was a clear decline in semantic as well as temporal exploration patterns between clusters. Results strongly point towards preserved exploitation - semantic memory retrieval processes - and hampered exploration - executive control processes - in AD and potentially in MCI.},
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Impaired Semantic Verbal Fluency (SVF) in dementia due to Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and its precursor Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is well known. Yet, it remains open whether this impairment mirrors the breakdown of semantic memory retrieval processes or executive control processes. Therefore, qualitative analysis of the SVF has been proposed but is limited in terms of methodology and feasibility in clinical practice. Consequently, research draws no conclusive picture which of these afore-mentioned processes drives the SVF impairment in AD and MCI. This study uses a qualitative computational approach - combining temporal and semantic information - to investigate exploitation and exploration patterns as indicators for semantic memory retrieval and executive control processes. Audio SVF recordings of 20 controls (C, 66-81 years), 55 MCI (57-94 years) and 20 AD subjects (66-82 years) were assessed while groups were matched according to age and education. All groups produced, on average, the same amount of semantically related items in rapid succession within word clusters. Conversely, towards AD, there was a clear decline in semantic as well as temporal exploration patterns between clusters. Results strongly point towards preserved exploitation - semantic memory retrieval processes - and hampered exploration - executive control processes - in AD and potentially in MCI. |
Häuser, Katja; Demberg, Vera; Kray, Jutta Effects of aging and dual-task demands on the comprehension of less expected sentence continuations: Evidence from pupillometry. Journal Article Frontiers in Psychology-Cognition, 10 | Article 709 , 2019. Links | BibTeX @article{H\"{a}user2019,
title = {Effects of aging and dual-task demands on the comprehension of less expected sentence continuations: Evidence from pupillometry. },
author = {Katja H\"{a}user and Vera Demberg and Kray, Jutta
},
url = {https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00709},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-03-19},
journal = {Frontiers in Psychology-Cognition},
volume = { 10 | Article 709},
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2018
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Howcroft, David M; Klakow, Dietrich; Demberg, Vera Toward Bayesian Synchronous Tree Substitution Grammars for Sentence Planning Inproceedings 11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG2018), Tilburg, The Netherlands, 2018. BibTeX @inproceedings{Howcroft2018,
title = {Toward Bayesian Synchronous Tree Substitution Grammars for Sentence Planning},
author = {David M. Howcroft and Dietrich Klakow and Vera Demberg},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-11-05},
publisher = {11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG2018)},
address = {Tilburg, The Netherlands},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
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Shen, Xiaoyu; Su, Hui; Niu, Shuzi; Demberg, Vera Improving Variational Encoder-Decoders in Dialogue Generation Inproceedings 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18), New Orleans, USA, 2018. BibTeX @inproceedings{Shen2018,
title = {Improving Variational Encoder-Decoders in Dialogue Generation},
author = {Xiaoyu Shen and Hui Su and Shuzi Niu and Vera Demberg},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-02-02},
publisher = {32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18)},
address = {New Orleans, USA},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
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Häuser, Katja; Demberg, Vera; Kray, Jutta Surprisal modulates dual-task performance in older adults: Pupillometry shows age-related trade-offs in task performance and time-course of language processing Journal Article Psychology and Aging, 33 (8), pp. 1168-1180, 2018. Links | BibTeX @article{H\"{a}user2018,
title = {Surprisal modulates dual-task performance in older adults: Pupillometry shows age-related trade-offs in task performance and time-course of language processing},
author = {Katja H\"{a}user and Vera Demberg and Jutta Kray },
doi = {10.1037/pag0000316},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-00-00},
journal = {Psychology and Aging},
volume = {33},
number = {8},
pages = {1168-1180},
keywords = {},
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Vogels, Jorrig; Demberg, Vera; Kray, Jutta The index of cognitive activity as a measure of cognitive processing load in dual task settings Journal Article Frontiers in Psychololgy, 9 , pp. 2276, 2018. Links | BibTeX @article{Vogels2018,
title = {The index of cognitive activity as a measure of cognitive processing load in dual task settings},
author = {Jorrig Vogels and Vera Demberg and Jutta Kray},
url = {https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02276},
doi = {10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02276},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-00-00},
journal = {Frontiers in Psychololgy},
volume = {9},
pages = {2276},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
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2017
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Howcroft, David M; Demberg, Vera Psycholinguistic Models of Sentence Processing Improve Sentence Readability Ranking Inproceedings Proceedings of EACL 2017, Valencia, 2017. Links | BibTeX @inproceedings{Howcroft2017,
title = {Psycholinguistic Models of Sentence Processing Improve Sentence Readability Ranking},
author = {David M. Howcroft and Vera Demberg},
url = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/E17-1090},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-04-01},
booktitle = {Proceedings of EACL 2017},
address = {Valencia},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
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Howcroft, David M; Vogels, Jorrig; Demberg, Vera G-TUNA: a corpus of referring expressions in German, including duration information Inproceedings Proc. of the 10th International Natural Language
Generation Conference (INLG), pp. 149-153, Association for Computational Linguistics, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 2017. Links | BibTeX @inproceedings{W17-3522,
title = {G-TUNA: a corpus of referring expressions in German, including duration information},
author = {David M. Howcroft and Jorrig Vogels and Vera Demberg},
url = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W17-3522},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-00-00},
booktitle = {Proc. of the 10th International Natural Language
Generation Conference (INLG)},
pages = {149-153},
publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
address = {Santiago de Compostela, Spain},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
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Howcroft, David M; Klakow, Dietrich; Demberg, Vera The Extended SPaRKy Restaurant Corpus: Designing a Corpus with Variable Information Density Inproceedings Proc. Interspeech 2017, pp. 3757-3761, 2017. Links | BibTeX @inproceedings{Howcroft2017b,
title = {The Extended SPaRKy Restaurant Corpus: Designing a Corpus with Variable Information Density},
author = {David M. Howcroft and Dietrich Klakow and Vera Demberg},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2017-1555},
doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2017-1555},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-00-00},
booktitle = {Proc. Interspeech 2017},
pages = {3757-3761},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
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Häuser, Katja; Demberg, Vera; Kray, Jutta Age-differences in recovery from prediction error: Evidence from a simulated driving and combined sentence verification task. Inproceedings 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017. BibTeX @inproceedings{H\"{a}user2017,
title = {Age-differences in recovery from prediction error: Evidence from a simulated driving and combined sentence verification task.},
author = {Katja H\"{a}user and Vera Demberg and Jutta Kray},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-00-00},
publisher = {39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society},
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Vogels, Jorrig; Howcroft, David M; Demberg, Vera Referential overspecification in response to the listener's cognitive load Inproceedings International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Tarttu, Estonia, 2017. BibTeX @inproceedings{Vogels2017,
title = {Referential overspecification in response to the listener's cognitive load},
author = {Jorrig Vogels and David M. Howcroft and Vera Demberg},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-00-00},
publisher = {International Cognitive Linguistics Conference},
address = {Tarttu, Estonia},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
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2016
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Schwenger, Maximilian; Torralba, Álvaro; Hoffmann, Jörg; Howcroft, David M; Demberg, Vera From OpenCCG to AI Planning: Detecting Infeasible Edges in Sentence Generation Inproceedings Calzolari, Nicoletta; Matsumoto, Yuji; Prasad, Rashmi (Ed.): COLING 2016, 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference: Technical Papers, pp. 1524-1534, ACL, Osaka, 2016, ISBN: 978-4-87974-702-0. Links | BibTeX @inproceedings{DBLP:conf/coling/SchwengerTHHD16,
title = {From OpenCCG to AI Planning: Detecting Infeasible Edges in Sentence Generation},
author = {Maximilian Schwenger and \'{A}lvaro Torralba and J\"{o}rg Hoffmann and David M. Howcroft and Vera Demberg},
editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari and Yuji Matsumoto and Rashmi Prasad},
url = {http://aclweb.org/anthology/C/C16/C16-1144.pdf},
isbn = {978-4-87974-702-0},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-12-01},
booktitle = {COLING 2016, 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference: Technical Papers},
pages = {1524-1534},
publisher = {ACL},
address = {Osaka},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
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Ahrendt, Simon; Demberg, Vera Improving event prediction by representing script participants Inproceedings Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pp. 546-551, Association for Computational Linguistics, San Diego, California, 2016. Links | BibTeX @inproceedings{ahrendt-demberg:2016:N16-1,
title = {Improving event prediction by representing script participants},
author = {Simon Ahrendt and Vera Demberg},
url = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N16-1067},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-06-01},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies},
pages = {546-551},
publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
address = {San Diego, California},
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pubstate = {published},
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Zarcone, Alessandra; van Schijndel, Marten; Vogels, Jorrig; Demberg, Vera Salience and attention in surprisal-based accounts of language processing Journal Article Frontiers in Psychology, 7 (844), 2016, ISSN: 1664-1078. Links | BibTeX @article{10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00844,
title = {Salience and attention in surprisal-based accounts of language processing},
author = {Alessandra Zarcone and Marten van Schijndel and Jorrig Vogels and Vera Demberg},
url = {http://www.frontiersin.org/language_sciences/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00844/abstract},
doi = {10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00844},
issn = {1664-1078},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-01-01},
journal = {Frontiers in Psychology},
volume = {7},
number = {844},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
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2015
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Fischer, Andrea; Demberg, Vera; Klakow, Dietrich Towards Flexible, Small-Domain Surface Generation: Combining Data-Driven and Grammatical Approaches Inproceedings Proceedings of the 15th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG), pp. 105-108, Association for Computational Linguistics Brighton, 2015. Links | BibTeX @inproceedings{fischer:demberg:klakow,
title = {Towards Flexible, Small-Domain Surface Generation: Combining Data-Driven and Grammatical Approaches},
author = {Andrea Fischer and Vera Demberg and Dietrich Klakow},
url = {https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W15-4718/},
year = {2015},
date = {2015-09-00},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG)},
pages = {105-108},
address = {Brighton},
organization = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
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Kravtchenko, Ekaterina; Demberg, Vera Underinformative Event Mentions Trigger Context-Dependent Implicatures Inproceedings Talk presented at Formal and Experimental Pragmatics: Methodological Issues of a Nascent Liaison (MXPRAG), Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin, June 2015, Berlin, 2015. Links | BibTeX @inproceedings{Kravtchenko2015b,
title = {Underinformative Event Mentions Trigger Context-Dependent Implicatures},
author = {Ekaterina Kravtchenko and Vera Demberg},
url = {http://www.xprag.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/KravtchenkoDemberg.pdf},
year = {2015},
date = {2015-06-01},
booktitle = {Talk presented at Formal and Experimental Pragmatics: Methodological Issues of a Nascent Liaison (MXPRAG)},
publisher = {Zentrum f\"{u}r Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin, June 2015},
address = {Berlin},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
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Kravtchenko, Ekaterina; Demberg, Vera Online Processing and Interpretation of Underinformative Event Mentions Inproceedings Discourse Expectations: Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational Perspectives (DETEC) (poster), University of Alberta, Edmonton, June 2015, 2015. Links | BibTeX @inproceedings{Kravtchenko2015c,
title = {Online Processing and Interpretation of Underinformative Event Mentions},
author = {Ekaterina Kravtchenko and Vera Demberg},
url = {https://detec2015.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/kravtchenko_detec_2015_revised.pdf},
year = {2015},
date = {2015-01-01},
booktitle = {Discourse Expectations: Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational Perspectives (DETEC) (poster)},
publisher = {University of Alberta, Edmonton, June 2015},
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Vogels, Jorrig; Demberg, Vera; Kray, Jutta Cognitive Load and Individual Differences in Multitasking Abilities Conference Workshop on Individual differences in language processing across the adult life span, 2015. Links | BibTeX @conference{vogelsjorrig2015cognitive,
title = {Cognitive Load and Individual Differences in Multitasking Abilities},
author = {Jorrig Vogels and Vera Demberg and Jutta Kray},
url = {http://www.sfb1102.uni-saarland.de/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Abstract.pdf},
year = {2015},
date = {2015-01-01},
booktitle = {Workshop on Individual differences in language processing across the adult life span},
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Howcroft, David M; White, Michael Inducing Clause-Combining Operations for Natural Language Generation Inproceedings Proc. of the 1st International Workshop on Data-to-Text Generation, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 2015. Links | BibTeX @inproceedings{howcroft:white:d2t-2015,
title = {Inducing Clause-Combining Operations for Natural Language Generation},
author = {David M. Howcroft and Michael White},
url = {http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab/d2t/papers/d2t_HowcroftWhite},
year = {2015},
date = {2015-01-01},
booktitle = {Proc. of the 1st International Workshop on Data-to-Text Generation},
address = {Edinburgh, Scotland, UK},
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pubstate = {published},
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