Publications

Journal Articles

Rajakrishnan Rajkumar, Marten van Schijndel, Michael White, and William Schuler. "Investigating Locality Effects and Surprisal in Written English Syntactic Choice Phenomena." Cognition, 155: 204-232. 2016.

@article{rajakrishnan_etal:2016:cognition,
  author    = {Rajkumar, Rajakrishnan and {van Schijndel}, Marten and White, Michael and Schuler, William},
  title     = {Investigating Locality Effects and Surprisal in Written English Syntactic Choice Phenomena},
  journal   = {Cognition},
  pages     = {204--232},
  volume    = {155},
  year      = {2016},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.cognition.2016.06.008},
}

Alessandra Zarcone, Marten van Schijndel, Jorrig Vogels, and Vera Demberg. "Salience and attention in surprisal-based accounts of language processing." Frontiers in Psychology, 7 (844). 2016.

@article{zarcone_etal:2016:frontiers,
  author    = {Zarcone, Alessandra and van Schijndel, Marten and Vogels, Jorrig and Demberg, Vera},
  title     = {Salience and attention in surprisal-based accounts
               of language processing},
  journal   = {Frontiers in Psychology},
  volume    = {7},
  issue     = {844},
  year      = {2016},
  doi       = {10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00844},
}

Marten van Schijndel, Andy Exley, and William Schuler. "A Model of Language Processing as Hierarchic Sequential Prediction." Topics in Cognitive Science, 5 (3): 522-540. 2013.

@article{vanschijndel_etal:2013:topics,
  author    = {van Schijndel, Marten and Exley, Andy and Schuler, William},
  title     = {A Model of Language Processing as
               Hierarchic Sequential Prediction},
  journal   = {Topics in Cognitive Science},
  volume    = {5},
  issue     = {3},
  year      = {2013},
  pages     = {522--540},
  publisher = {Cognitive Science Society},
}

Peer-Reviewed Proceedings

Marten van Schijndel and William Schuler. "Approximations of Predictive Entropy Correlate with Reading Times." In Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2017). 2017. (29% oral)

@InProceedings{vanschijndelschuler:2017:cogsci,
  author    = {van Schijndel, Marten and Schuler, William},
  title     = {Approximations of Predictive Entropy Correlate with Reading Times},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of CogSci 2017},
  month     = {July},
  year      = {2017},
  address   = {London, UK},
  publisher = {Cognitive Science Society},
}

Marten van Schijndel and William Schuler. "Addressing surprisal deficiencies in reading time models." In Proceedings of the Computational Linguistics for Linguistic Complexity Workshop (CL4LC 2016). 2016. (24.2% oral)

@InProceedings{vanschijndelschuler:2016:cl4lc,
  author    = {van Schijndel, Marten and Schuler, William},
  title     = {Addressing surprisal deficiencies in reading time models},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of CL4LC 2016},
  month     = {December},
  year      = {2016},
  address   = {Osaka, Japan},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
}

Cory Shain, Marten van Schijndel, Richard Futrell, Edward Gibson, and William Schuler. "Memory access during sentence processing causes reading time latency." In Proceedings of the Computational Linguistics for Linguistic Complexity Workshop (CL4LC 2016). 2016. (24.2% oral)

@InProceedings{shainetal:2016:cl4lc,
  author    = {Shain, Cory and van {Schijndel}, Marten and Gibson, Edward and Schuler, William},
  title     = {Memory access during sentence processing causes reading time latency},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of CL4LC 2016},
  month     = {December},
  year      = {2016},
  address   = {Osaka, Japan},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
}

Marten van Schijndel and William Schuler. "Hierarchic syntax improves reading time prediction." In Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics -- Human Language Technologies (NAACL 2015). 2015. (12.6% oral)

@InProceedings{vanschijndelschuler:2015:naacl,
  author    = {van Schijndel, Marten and Schuler, William},
  title     = {Hierarchic syntax improves reading time prediction},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of NAACL 2015},
  month     = {June},
  year      = {2015},
  address   = {Denver, Colorado, USA},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
}

Marten van Schijndel, Brian Murphy, and William Schuler. "Evidence of syntactic working memory usage in MEG data." In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2015). 2015.

@InProceedings{vanschijndeletal:2015:cmcl,
  author    = {van Schijndel, Marten and Murphy, Brian and Schuler, William},
  title     = {Evidence of syntactic working memory usage in {MEG} data},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of CMCL 2015},
  month     = {June},
  year      = {2015},
  address   = {Denver, Colorado, USA},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
}

Evan Jaffe, Lifeng Jin, David King, and Marten van Schijndel. "Azmat: Sentence similarity using associative matrices." In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2015). 2015.

@InProceedings{jaffeetal:2015:semeval,
  author    = {Jaffe, Evan and Jin, Lifeng and King, David and {van Schijndel}, Marten},
  title     = {Azmat: Sentence similarity using associative matrices},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of Semeval 2015},
  month     = {June},
  year      = {2015},
  address   = {Denver, Colorado, USA},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
}

Marten van Schijndel and Micha Elsner. "Bootstrapping into filler-gap: An acquisition story." In Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2014). 2014. (13.4% oral)

@InProceedings{vanschijndelelsner:2014:acl,
  author    = {van Schijndel, Marten and Elsner, Micha},
  title     = {Bootstrapping into filler-gap: An acquisition story},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of ACL 2014},
  month     = {June},
  year      = {2014},
  address   = {Baltimore, Maryland, USA},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
}

Marten van Schijndel, William Schuler, and Peter Culicover. "Frequency Effects in the Processing of Unbounded Dependencies." In Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2014). 2014. (41.6% oral)

@InProceedings{vanschijndel_etal:2014:cogsci,
  author    = {van Schijndel, Marten and Schuler, William and Culicover, Peter W.},
  title     = {Frequency Effects in the Processing of Unbounded Dependencies},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of CogSci 2014},
  month     = {July},
  year      = {2014},
  address   = {Quebec, Quebec, Canada},
  publisher = {Cognitive Science Society},
}

Marten van Schijndel and William Schuler. "An Analysis of Frequency- and Memory-Based Processing Costs." In Proceedings of 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT 2013). 2013. (20.2% oral)

@InProceedings{vanschijndelschuler:2013:naacl,
  author    = {van Schijndel, Marten and Schuler, William},
  title     = {An Analysis of Frequency- and Memory-Based Processing Costs},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2012},
  month     = {June},
  year      = {2013},
  address   = {Atlanta, Georgia, USA},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
}

Marten van Schijndel, Luan Nguyen, and William Schuler. "An Analysis of Memory-based Processing Costs using Incremental Deep Syntactic Dependency Parsing." In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2013). 2013.

@InProceedings{vanschijndeletal:2013:cmcl,
  author    = {van Schijndel, Marten and Nguyen, Luan and Schuler, William},
  title     = {An Analysis of Memory-based Processing Costs using Incremental
               Deep Syntactic Dependency Parsing},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of CMCL 2013},
  month     = {August},
  year      = {2013},
  address   = {Sofia, Bulgaria},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
}

Luan Nguyen, Marten van Schijndel, and William Schuler. "Accurate Unbounded Dependency Recovery using Generalized Categorial Grammars." In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2012). 2012. (16% oral)    Received 'Best Paper' at COLING'12.

@InProceedings{nguyen_etal:2012:coling,
  author    = {Nguyen, Luan and van Schijndel, Marten and Schuler, William},
  title     = {Accurate Unbounded Dependency Recovery
               using Generalized Categorial Grammars},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of COLING 2012},
  month     = {December},
  year      = {2012},
  address   = {Mumbai, India},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
}

Marten van Schijndel, Andy Exley, and William Schuler. "Connectionist-Inspired Incremental PCFG Parsing." In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2012). 2012.

@InProceedings{vanschijndel_etal:2012:cmcl,
  author    = {van Schijndel, Marten and Exley, Andy and Schuler, William},
  title     = {Connectionist-Inspired Incremental PCFG Parsing},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of CMCL 2012},
  month     = {June},
  year      = {2012},
  address   = {Montreal, Quebec, Canada},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
}

Peer-Reviewed Abstracts

Marten van Schijndel and Kathleen C. Fraser. "Screening for Alzheimer's with psycholinguistics." In Proceedings of the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. 2016.

@InProceedings{vanschijndelfraser:2016:cuny,
  author    = {{van Schijndel}, Marten and Fraser, Kathleen C.},
  title     = {Screening for Alzheimer's with psycholinguistics},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of CUNY 2016},
  month     = {March},
  year      = {2016},
  address   = {Gainesville, Florida, USA},
  publisher = {University of Florida},
}

Marten van Schijndel and William Schuler. "Alpha power decreases during center embedding in natural stimuli." In Proceedings of the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. 2016.

@InProceedings{vanschijndelschuler:2016:cuny,
  author    = {{van Schijndel}, Marten and Schuler, William},
  title     = {Alpha power decreases during center embedding in
              natural stimuli},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of CUNY 2016},
  month     = {March},
  year      = {2016},
  address   = {Gainesville, Florida, USA},
  publisher = {University of Florida},
}

Kathleen C. Fraser, Marten van Schijndel, Naida Graham, Elizabeth Rochon, and Sandra Black. "Can measures of processing complexity predict progressive aphasia from speech?" In Proceedings of the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. 2016.

@InProceedings{fraseretal:2016:cuny,
  author    = {Fraser, Kathleen C. and {van Schijndel}, Marten and
               Graham, Naida and Rochon, Elizabeth and Black, Sandra},
  title     = {Can measures of processing complexity predict
               progressive aphasia from speech?},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of CUNY 2016},
  month     = {March},
  year      = {2016},
  address   = {Gainesville, Florida, USA},
  publisher = {University of Florida},
}

Cory Shain, Marten van Schijndel, Edward Gibson, and William Schuler. "Exploring memory and processing through a gold standard annotation of Dundee." In Proceedings of the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. 2016.

@InProceedings{shainetal:2016:cuny,
  author    = {Shain, Cory and {van Schijndel}, Marten and
               Gibson, Edward and Schuler, William},
  title     = {Exploring memory and processing through
               a gold standard annotation of {Dundee}},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of CUNY 2016},
  month     = {March},
  year      = {2016},
  address   = {Gainesville, Florida, USA},
  publisher = {University of Florida},
}

Marten van Schijndel and William Schuler. "Hierarchic syntax improves reading time prediction." In Proceedings of the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. 2015.

@InProceedings{vanschijndelschuler:2015:cuny,
  author    = {{van Schijndel}, Marten and Schuler, William},
  title     = {Hierarchic syntax improves reading time prediction},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of CUNY 2015},
  month     = {March},
  year      = {2015},
  address   = {Los Angeles, California, USA},
  publisher = {University of Southern California},
}

William Schuler and Marten van Schijndel. "Effects of integration in eye tracking." In Proceedings of the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. 2014.

@InProceedings{schulervanschijndel:2014:cuny,
  author    = {Schuler, William and {van Schijndel}, Marten},
  title     = {Effects of integration in eye tracking},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of CUNY 2014},
  month     = {March},
  year      = {2014},
  address   = {Columbus, Ohio, USA},
  publisher = {The Ohio State University},
}

Marten van Schijndel and Micha Elsner. "Bootstrapping into Filler-Gap: An Acquisition Story." In Proceedings of the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. 2014.

@InProceedings{vanschijndelelsner:2014:cuny,
  author    = {{van Schijndel}, Marten and Elsner, Micha},
  title     = {Bootstrapping into Filler-Gap: An Acquisition Story},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of CUNY 2014},
  month     = {March},
  year      = {2014},
  address   = {Columbus, Ohio, USA},
  publisher = {The Ohio State University},
}

Presentations

"Screening for Alzheimer's with psycholinguistics." March 5, 2016. CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, University of Florida.
"Alpha power decreases during center embedding in natural stimuli." March 5, 2016. CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, University of Florida.
"Can measures of processing complexity predict progressive aphasia from speech?" March 3, 2016. CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, University of Florida.
"Frequencies that matter in sentence processing." September 7, 2015. Invited talk, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, DE.
"Controlling for confounds in online measures of sentence complexity." July 28, 2015. Invited talk, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, DE.
"Identifying EEG measures of memory and attentional load in language processing." July 2, 2015. Invited talk, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, DE.
"Evidence of syntactic working memory usage in MEG data." June 4, 2015. The 6th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2015), Denver, CO.
"Hierarchic syntax improves reading time prediction." June 3, 2015. 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2015), Denver, CO.
"Hierarchic syntax improves reading time prediction." March 21, 2015. CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, University of Southern California.
"Frequency Effects in the Processing of Unbounded Dependencies." July 24, 2014. 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2014), Quebec, QC, Canada
"Bootstrapping into Filler-Gap: An Acquisition Story." June 24, 2014. 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2014), Baltimore, MD
"Effects of integration in eye tracking." March 15, 2014. CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, The Ohio State University.
"Bootstrapping into Filler-Gap: An Acquisition Story." March 13, 2014. CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, The Ohio State University.
"Bootstrapping into Filler-Gap: An Acquisition Story." November 22, 2013. The Ohio State University Linguistics Colloquium Fest, The Ohio State University.
"An Analysis of Memory-based Processing Costs using Incremental Deep Syntactic Dependency Parsing." August 8, 2013. The 4th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2013), Sofia, Bulgaria.
"An Analysis of Frequency- and Memory-Based Processing Costs." June 10, 2013. 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2013), Atlanta, GA.
"An Analysis of Frequency- and Memory-Based Processing Costs." May 2, 2013. Midwest Speech and Language Days (MSLD 2013), Toyota Technological Institute of Chicago.
"Prediction- and Recall-Defined Online Complexity Metrics." December 5, 2012. The Ohio State University Linguistics Colloquium Fest, The Ohio State University.
"Connectionist-Inspired Incremental PCFG Parsing." June 7, 2012. The 3rd Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, McGill University.

Collaborators

Peter W. Culicover
Vera Demberg
Micha Elsner
Stefan Frank
Kathleen C. Fraser
Evan Jaffe
Lifeng Jin
David King
Brian Murphy
Rajakrishnan Rajkumar
Roi Reichart
William Schuler
Per Sederberg
Mike White
Alessandra Zarcone

Programs

My GitHub page Modelblocks (a toolkit for working with probabilistic sequence models)