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📅 28/04/2025 | 🗣 Jakub Dotlačil (Utrecht University) | 📝 Psycholinguistic corpora, eye movements and meaning representations 🔖 ABOUT THE LECTURE ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ▸One of the challenges in cognitive research on language is to find meaning representations that go beyond simple (lexical, non-compositional) representations and can capture the incremental interpretation of discourse. At the same time, the representations should be practical enough to be applicable to data that are of interests to psycholinguists and cognitive scientists. In this presentation, I demonstrate how meaning representations from formal discourse semantics, Discourse Representation Structures (DRS), can be utilized for analyzing psycholinguistic corpora (corpora which also carry information about readers' neural and/or behavioral measures, like EEG brain activity or eye tracking measures). I briefly discuss psycholinguistic corpus research and present a so-called UCL corpus (Frank et al., 2013), which we annotated with DRS representations using Parallel Meaning Bank annotation tools (Abzianidze et al., 2017). The annotated corpus makes it possible to build a link between behavioral measures (e.g., eye fixations and saccades, reaction times) and discourse interpretation. More concretely, I show how the psycholinguistic corpus research can be used to test claims regarding meaning and cognition present in theories of sentence processing, for instance, the claim that cognitive and reading difficulties are linked to the introduction of discourse referents (Dependency locality theory, Gibson, 2000, among others). References: Abzianidze, L. et al. (2017). The parallel meaning bank: Towards a multilingual corpus of translations annotated with compositional meaning representations. EACL. Frank, S. L. et al. (2013). Reading time data for evaluating broad-coverage models of English sentence processing. Behavior research methods, 45, 1182-1190. Gibson, E. (2000). The dependency locality theory: A distance-based theory of linguistic complexity. Image, language, brain, 2000, 95-126. 📽️ ABOUT THE SERIES ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ▸The history of Linguistic Mondays dates back to the 1980s and their original aim was to make both the students and the faculty members as well as the wider research community aware of the field of computational linguistics in general and of the results achieved by the members of our team in particular. During the years, with the growing awareness of the domain and with new trends appearing on the scene and with more master and doctoral students coming in, the scope of the topics introduced has broadened correspondingly, covering all aspects of the field from the basics of computational linguistics, its linguistic and formal background through corpora case studies and natural language processing applications such as machine translation and information retrieval up to the most modern trends including machine learning. It is also offers an excellent opportunity for PhD students to present their results and to receive a relevant response from leading experts in the field. ❔ SOCIAL MEDIA ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ▸web: https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz ▸facebook:   / ufalmffuk   ▸twitter:   / ufal_cuni