Publications and Presentations
PDF files of papers or abstracts available for some items:
Dissertation
Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters
- Roland, Douglas, Jeffrey L. Elman, Victor S. Ferreira (in press).
Why is that? Structural prediction and ambiguity resolution in a very large corpus of English sentences.
Cognition.
- Gahl, Susanne, Dan Jurafsky, Douglas Roland (in press).
Verb subcategorization frequencies: American English corpus data, methodological studies, and cross-corpus comparisons.
Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers.
- Roland, Douglas and Daniel Jurafsky. (2002).
Verb sense and verb subcategorization probabilities.
In Paola Merlo and Suzanne Stevenson (Eds),
The Lexical Basis of Sentence Processing: Formal, Computational, and Experimental Issues,
John Benjamins.
Postscript file of pre-print
PDF file of pre-print
Refereed Conference Papers
- Roland, Douglas, Daniel Jurafsky, Lise Menn, Susanne
Gahl, Elizabeth Elder and Chris Riddoch. (2000). Verb
subcategorization frequency differences between business-news
and balanced corpora: the role of verb sense. In
Proceedings of the Workshop on Comparing Corpora, pages
28-34, Hong Kong, October.
Available through the ACL Anthology
or this preprint.
- Roland, Douglas and Daniel Jurafsky. (1998). How verb
subcategorization frequencies are affected by corpus
choice. Proceedings of COLING-ACL 1998. p 1117-1121.
Available through the ACL Anthology
or this preprint.
Refereed Conference Presentations
- Roland, Douglas, Jeffrey L. Elman, Victor S. Ferreira (2004).
Modeling ambiguity resolution. Paper presented at the Thought and Language Symposium,
University of University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan, July 9, 2004. (IEICE TL2004-10)
- Roland, Douglas (2004).
Using corpus data to model ambiguity resolution and complementizer use.
Paper presented at the 78th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America
78th Annual Meeting, Boston, January 8-11.
- Roland, Douglas, Jeffrey L. Elman, Victor S. Ferreira (2003).
Why 'that'?. Poster presented at AMLaP 2003, University
of Glasgow, August 25-27 2003. PDF file of
poster (letter size version)
- Roland, Douglas, Jeffrey L. Elman, Victor S. Ferreira (2003).
Signposts along the garden path. Paper presented at the
CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Boston.
- McRae, Ken, Mary Hare, Jeffrey L. Elman, Douglas Roland (2003).
Implementing the resolution of the temporary DO/SC ambiguity.
Poster presented at the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Boston.
- Roland, Douglas (2002). Predicting verb
subcategorization from the semantic context preceding the
verb. Paper presented at the CUNY Sentence Processing
Conference, New York, New York.
- Gahl, Susanne, Douglas Roland, and Daniel Jurafsky. (2002).
A new resource and methodological considerations on
verb subcategorization biases. Poster presented at
the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, New York, New
York.
- Roland, Douglas, Daniel Jurafsky, and Laura Michaelis. (1999).
Verb Behavior is not Verb Nature: Sense and Genre Bias
as Sources of Subcategorization Probabilities. Poster
presented at the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, New
York, New York. Postscript
file of handout PDF file
of handout
- Roland, Douglas and Daniel Jurafsky. (1998). How verb
subcategorization frequencies are affected by the way you
measure them. Poster presented at the CUNY Sentence
Processing Conference, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
- Roland, Douglas and Daniel Jurafsky. (1997). Computing
verbal valence frequencies: corpora versus norming
studies. Poster presented at the CUNY Sentence
Processing Conference, Santa Monica, California.
- Bencini, Giulia and Douglas Roland. (1996). Verb
access difficulties and pragmatics in agrammatic aphasic
narratives. Poster presented at the annual meeting of
the Linguistics Society of America, San Diego, California.
Postscript file of handout
PDF file of handout
- Roland, Douglas and Giulia Bencini. (1995). Verb 'weight'
in agrammatism: English, Japanese, French, and Italian.
Paper presented at New Methods in Comparative
Aphasiology, June 27-July 6, 1995. Albuquerque, New
Mexico.
Publications Under Review
- Roland, Douglas, Frederic Dick, and Jeffrey L. Elman (submitted). Frequency
of basic English grammatical structures: A corpus analysis.
Manuscript submitted for publication.