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Theoretical and Experimental Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics
Computational Linguistics and NLP: Parsing, Computational Morphology
Automatic Speech Recognition and Keyword Spotting
(Models of) Human Sentence Processing
Mathematics of Language
Dialectology
Baumann, P. (2021). Incremental Structure Building and Islands. Northwestern University dissertation. Evanston, IL. [ .pdf ]
He, Y., Baumann, P., Fang, H., Hutchinson, B., Jaech, A., Ostendorf, M., Fosler-Lussier, E., and Pierrehumbert, J. (2016). Using pronunciation-based morphological subwords to improve OOV handling in keyword search. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 24(1):79--92. [ .pdf ]
Baumann, P. (2015). The special status of color in pragmatic reasoning: evidence from a language game. In Noelle, D. C., Dale, R., Warlaumont, A. S., Yoshimi, J., Matlock, T., Jennings, C. D., and Maglio, P. P., editors, Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pages 178--183, Austin. Cognitive Science Society. [ .pdf ]
Fang, H., Ostendorf, M., Baumann, P., and Pierrehumbert, J. (2015). Exponential language modeling using morphological feeatures and multi-task learning. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 23(12):2410--2421. [ .pdf ]
Frazier, M., Ackerman, L., Baumann, P., Potter, D., and Yoshida, M. (2015). Wh-filler-gap dependency formation guides reflexive antecedent search. Frontiers in Psychology, 6(1504). [ .pdf ]
Baumann, P. (2014). Dependencies and hierarchical structure in sentence processing. In Bello, P., Guarini, M., McShane, M., and Scassellati, B., editors, Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pages 152--157, Austin. Cognitive Science Society. [ .pdf ]
Baumann, P., Clark, B., and Kaufmann, S. (2014a). Overspecification and the cost of pragmatic reasoning about referring expressions. In Bello, P., Guarini, M., McShane, M., and Scassellati, B., editors, Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pages 1898--1903, Austin. Cognitive Science Society. [ .pdf ]
Maier, W., Kaeshammer, M., Baumann, P., and Kübler, S. (2014). Discosuite - a parser test suite for German discontinuous structures. In Calzolari, N., Choukri, K., Declerck, T., Loftsson, H., Maegaard, B., Mariani, J., Moreno, A., Odijk, J., and Piperidis, S., editors, Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), pages 2905--2912, Reykjavik. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). [ .pdf ]
Baumann, P. and Pierrehumbert, J. (2014). Using resource-rich languages to improve morphological analysis of under-resourced languages. In Calzolari, N., Choukri, K., Declerck, T., Loftsson, H., Maegaard, B., Mariani, J., Moreno, A., Odijk, J., and Piperidis, S., editors, Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), pages 3355--3359, Reykjavik. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). [ .pdf ]
He, Y., Hutchinson, B., Baumann, P., Ostendorf, M., Fosler-Lussier, E., and Pierrehumbert, J. (2014). Subword-based modeling for handling OOV words in keyword spotting. In 2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pages 7864--7868. [ .pdf ]
Baumann, P., Konieczny, L., and Hemforth, B. (2014b). Conversational implicatures in anaphora resolution: Alternative constructions and referring expressions. In Hemforth, B., Mertins, B., and Fabricius-Hansen, C., editors, Psycholinguistic Approaches to Meaning and Understanding across Languages, pages 197--212. Springer, Heidelberg.
Baumann, P. (2013). Syntactic category disambiguation within an architecture of human language processing. In Knauff, M., Pauen, M., Sebanz, N., and Wachsmuth, I., editors, Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pages 1833--1838, Austin. Cognitive Science Society. [ .pdf ]
Auer, P., Baumann, P., and Schwarz, C. (2011). Vertical vs. horizontal change in the traditional dialects of southwest Germany: A quantitative approach. Taal en Tongval, 63(1). [ .pdf ]
Baumann, P., Konieczny, L., and Hemforth, B. (2011). Pragmatic expectations and coreference: How alternative constructions and referring expressions can serve as cues. In Carlson, L., Höscher, C., and Shipley, T., editors, Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pages 3293--3298, Austin. Cognitive Science Society. [ .pdf ]
Wolk, C., Wolfer, S., Baumann, P., Hemforth, B., and Konieczny, L. (2011). Acquiring English dative verbs: Proficiency effects in German L2 learners. In Carlson, L., Höscher, C., and Shipley, T., editors, Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pages 2401--2406, Austin. Cognitive Science Society. [ .pdf ]
Konieczny, L., Weldle, H., Wolfer, S., Müller, D., and Baumann, P. (2010). Anaphora and local coherences. In Ohlsson, S. and Catrambone, R., editors, Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pages 1204--1209, Austin. Cognitive Science Society. [ .pdf ]
Hemforth, B., Konieczny, L., Scheepers, C., Colonna, S., Schimke, S., Baumann, P., and Pynte, J. (2010). Language specific preferences in anaphor resolution: Exposure or Gricean maxims. In Ohlsson, S. and Catrambone, R., editors, Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pages 2218--2223, Austin. Cognitive Science Society. [ .pdf ]
Weldle, H., Konieczny, L., Müller, D., Wolfer, S., and Baumann, P. (2009). Connectionist modeling of situated language processing: Language and meaning acquisition from an embodiment perspective. In Taatgen, N., van Rijn, H., and Schomaker, L., editors, Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pages 827--832, Austin. Cognitive Science Society. [ .pdf ]
Kim, N., Baumann, P., Hall, K., Schumacher, R., and Yoshida, M. (2016). The processing of why. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Washington, DC.
Baumann, P., Kazanina, N., and Yoshida, M. (2015b). Online processing respects a pragmatic constraint or Hurford's constraint. CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Los Angeles, CA.
Baumann, P. and Yoshida, M. (2015). A psycholinguist asking who binds himself: Interference effects in the processing of reflexives. CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Los Angeles, CA.
Baumann, P., Hall, K., Kim, N., Schumacher, R., and Yoshida, M. (2015a). The processing of adjunct wh-questions. CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Los Angeles, CA.
Frazier, M., Baumann, P., Ackerman, L., Potter, D., and Yoshida, M. (2015). Does wh-filler-gap dependency formation resolve local ambiguity? CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Los Angeles, CA.
Baumann, P. (2014b). An empirical test of Hurford's constraint and its generalizations. SWAMP/GWAMP, page 18, Milwaukee, WI.
Baumann, P. and Yoshida, M. (2014). Memory retrieval favors referential antecedents: Interference effects in the processing of reflexives. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Edinburgh, UK.
Frazier, M., Baumann, P., Ackerman, L., Potter, D., and Yoshida, M. (2014b). Wh-dependency resolution interrupts reflexive antecedent search on-line. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Edinburgh, UK.
Baumann, P. (2014a). An empirical challenge of Hurford's constraint and structural economy, and a possible solution. Sinn und Bedeutung 19, Göttingen, Germany.
Frazier, M., Baumann, P., Ackerman, L., Potter, D., and Yoshida, M. (2014a). Local coherence effects and crossing reflexive- and wh-dependencies. CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Columbus, OH.
Frazier, M., Baumann, P., Ackerman, L., Potter, D., and Yoshida, M. (2013). Intervention by gaps in online sentence processing. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Marseilles, France.
Baumann, P. and Yoshida, M. (2013). Locality and binding: Local coherences influence binding of reflexives in reading. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Marseilles, France.
Baumann, P. (2013). How modular is lexical category disambiguation? CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Columbia, SC.
Baumann, P. (2012). The role of hierarchical structure in syntactic dependency integration. CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY.
Müller-Feldmeth, D., Baumann, P., Wolfer, S., and Konieczny, L. (2012). A connectionist model of graded effects in local syntactic coherence interpretation. CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY.
Müller, D., Baumann, P., Wolfer, S., and Konieczny, L. (2011). Still ambiguous: Statistical properties influence local coherence interpretation - evidence from a visual world experiment and connectionist modeling. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Paris, France.
Wolk, C., Baumann, P., Wolfer, S., Hemforth, B., and Konieczny, L. (2011). Acquiring English dative verbs: Proficiency effects in German L2 learners. CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Stanford, CA.
Baumann, P., Konieczny, L., and Hemforth, B. (2010). Expecting coreference: the role of alternative constructions. CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY.
Weldle, H., Konieczny, L., Wolfer, S., Baumann, P., and Müller, D. (2010b). Local syntactic coherences violate structural binding domains in on-line anaphora resolution. CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY.
Weldle, H., Konieczny, L., Müller, D., Wolfer, S., and Baumann, P. (2010a). Emergence of language comprehension from multiple task integration - a connectionist investigation. CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY.
Baumann, P., Konieczny, L., Müller, D., Hachmann, W., and Wolfer, S. (2009). Local syntactic coherence interpretation and its interaction with prosody: Evidence from two visual-world studies. European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM), Southampton, UK.
Konieczny, L., Müller, D., Baumann, P., Hachmann, W., and Wolfer, S. (2009). Local syntactic coherence interpretation, and how prosody modulates it. CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Davis, CA.
Weldle, H., Baumann, P., Müller, D., Wolfer, S., and Konieczny, L. (2009). Connectionist modelling of syntax and anaphora resolution. CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Davis, CA.