Publications and Presentations

PDF files of papers or abstracts available for some items:

Dissertation

• Roland, Douglas. (2001). Verb sense and verb subcategorization probabilities. Doctoral dissertation, University of Colorado. Official double space PDF version Paper saving single space PDF version

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.