Papers
2026
- Thomas Hikaru Clark, Roger P. Levy, and Edward Gibson. 2026. Readers make targeted regressions to plausible errors in reanalysis of “noisy-channel garden-path” sentences. In Proceedings of the 30th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, pages 435–451, San Diego, California, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Yingshan Susan Wang, Linlu Qiu, Zhaofeng Wu, Roger P. Levy, and Yoon Kim. 2026. Implicit Representations of Grammaticality in Language Models. In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 15035–15055, San Diego, California, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
2025
- Thomas Hikaru Clark, Jacob Hoover Vigly, Edward Gibson, and Roger P. Levy. 2025. Resource-Rational Noisy-Channel Language Processing: Testing the Effect of Algorithmic Constraints on Inferences. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 23648–23661, Suzhou, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Anna A. Ivanova, Aalok Sathe, Benjamin Lipkin, Unnathi U. Kumar, Setayesh Radkani, Thomas H. Clark, Carina Kauf, Jennifer Hu, R. T. Pramod, Gabriel Grand, Vivian C. Paulun, Maria Ryskina, Ekin Akyürek, Ethan G. Wilcox, Nafisa Rashid, Leshem Choshen, Roger Levy, Evelina Fedorenko, Joshua Tenenbaum, et al. 2025. Elements of World Knowledge ( EWoK ): A Cognition-Inspired Framework for Evaluating Basic World Knowledge in Language Models. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 13:1245–1270.
- Linlu Qiu, Cedegao E. Zhang, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Yoon Kim, and Roger P. Levy. 2025. On the Same Wavelength? Evaluating Pragmatic Reasoning in Language Models across Broad Concepts. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 19924–19946, Suzhou, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
2024
- Subha Nawer Pushpita and Roger P. Levy. 2024. Image-conditioned human language comprehension and psychometric benchmarking of visual language models. In Proceedings of the 28th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, pages 447–457, Miami, FL, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
2023
- Theo Olausson, Alex Gu, Ben Lipkin, Cedegao Zhang, Armando Solar-Lezama, Joshua Tenenbaum, and Roger Levy. 2023. LINC: A Neurosymbolic Approach for Logical Reasoning by Combining Language Models with First-Order Logic Provers. In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 5153–5176. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Koustuv Sinha, Jon Gauthier, Aaron Mueller, Kanishka Misra, Keren Fuentes, Roger Levy, and Adina Williams. 2023. Language model acceptability judgements are not always robust to context. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 6043–6063, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics. Outstanding Paper Award.
- Songlin Yang, Roger Levy, and Yoon Kim. 2023. Unsupervised Discontinuous Constituency Parsing with Mildly Context-Sensitive Grammars. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 5747–5766, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
2022
- Emmy Liu, Michael Henry Tessler, Nicole Dubosh, Katherine Hiller, and Roger Levy. 2022. Assessing Group-level Gender Bias in Professional Evaluations: The Case of Medical Student End-of-Shift Feedback. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing (GeBNLP), pages 86–93, Seattle, WashingtonJuly. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Peng Qian, Edward Gibson, and Roger P. Levy. 2022. Rational Inference from Number Agreement Mismatch. In Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
- Clara Meister, Tiago Pimentel, Thomas Clark, Ryan Cotterell, and Roger Levy. 2022. Analyzing Wrap-Up Effects through an Information-Theoretic Lens. In Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 20–28, Dublin, IrelandMay. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Mycal Tucker, Tiwalayo Eisape, Peng Qian, Roger P. Levy, and Julie Shah. 2022. When Does Syntax Mediate Neural Language Model Performance? Evidence from Dropout Probes. In Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies.
2021
- Yiwen Wang, Jennifer Hu, Roger Levy, and Peng Qian. 2021. Controlled Evaluation of Grammatical Knowledge in Mandarin Chinese Language Models. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 5604–5620, Online and Punta Cana, Dominican RepublicNovember. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Clara Meister, Tiago Pimentel, Patrick Haller, Lena Jäger, Ryan Cotterell, and Roger Levy. 2021. Revisiting the Uniform Information Density Hypothesis. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 963–980, Online and Punta Cana, Dominican RepublicNovember. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Stephanie L. Smith, Beatha Nyirandagijimana, Janvier Hakizimana, Roger P. Levy, Robert Bienvenu, Anathalie Uwamwezi, Octavien Hakizimfura, Eugenie Uwimana, Priya Kundu, Egide Mpanumusingo, Alphonse Nshimyiryo, Christian Rusangwa, Fredrick Kateera, Hildegarde Mukasakindi, and Giuseppe J. Raviola. 2021. Evaluating the delivery of Problem Management Plus in primary care settings in rural Rwanda: A study protocol using a pragmatic randomized hybrid type 1 effectiveness-implementation design. BMJ Open, 11:e054630.
- Leila Wehbe, Idan Asher Blank, Cory Shain, Richard Futrell, Roger Levy, Titus von der Malsburg, Nathaniel Smith, Edward Gibson, and Evelina Fedorenko. 2021. Incremental Language Comprehension Difficulty Predicts Activity in the Language Network but Not the Multiple Demand Network. Cerebral Cortex:1–18, April.
- Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Roger P. Levy, and Kathryn Davidson. 2021. Which Presuppositions are Subject to Contextual Felicity Constraints? In Nicole Dreier, Chloe Kwon, Thomas Darnell, and John Starr, editors, Proceedings of the 31st Conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory, volume 31, pages 345–364.
2020
- Tristan Thrush, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, and Roger P. Levy. 2020. Investigating Novel Verb Learning in BERT: Selectional Preference Classes and Alternation-Based Syntactic Generalization. In Proceedings of the Third BlackboxNLP Workshop on Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP, pages 265–275. November.
2019
- Aixiu An, Peng Qian, Ethan Wilcox, and Roger P. Levy. 2019. Representation of Constituents in Neural Language Models: Coordination Phrase as a Case Study. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, pages 2888–2899.
- Ethan Wilcox, Peng Qian, Richard Futrell, Miguel Ballesteros, and Roger Levy. 2019. Structural Supervision Improves Learning of Non-Local Grammatical Dependencies. In Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pages 3302–3312.
- Richard Futrell, Ethan Wilcox, Takashi Morita, Peng Qian, Miguel Ballesteros, and Roger Levy. 2019. Neural language models as psycholinguistic subjects: Representations of syntactic state. In Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pages 32–42.
2018
- Meilin Zhan and Roger Levy. 2018. Comparing Theories of Speaker Choice Using a Model of Classifier Production in Mandarin Chinese. In Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pages 1997–2005.
2017
- Richard Futrell, Roger Levy, and Edward Gibson. 2017. Generalizing dependency distance: Comment on “Dependency distance: A new perspective on syntactic patterns in natural languages” by Haitao Liu et al. Physics of Life Reviews, 21:197–199.
- Edward Gibson, Steven T. Piantadosi, and Roger Levy. 2017. Post Hoc Analysis Decisions Drive the Reported Reading Time Effects in Hackl, Koster-Hale & Varvoutis (2012). Journal of Semantics, 34:539–546.
2016
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2012
- Bożena Pająk and Roger Levy. 2012. Distributional Learning of L2 Phonological Categories by Listeners with Different Language Backgrounds. In Alia Biller, Esther Chung, and Amelia Kimball, editors, Proceedings of the 36th Boston University Conference on Language Development, pages 400–413. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
2011
2010
- Roger Levy. 2010. Probabilistic Models in the Study of Language. Textbook in progress.
2009
- Y. Albert Park and Roger Levy. 2009. Minimal-length linearizations for mildly context-sensitive dependency trees. In Proceedings of the 10th Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT) conference, pages 335–343, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
- Klinton Bicknell and Roger Levy. 2009. A model of local coherence effects in human sentence processing as consequences of updates from bottom-up prior to posterior beliefs. In Proceedings of the 10th Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT) conference, pages 665–673, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
2008
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2004
- Iddo Lev, Bill MacCartney, Christopher Manning, and Roger Levy. 2004. Solving Logic Puzzles: From Robust Processing to Precise Semantics. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Text Meaning and Interpretation, pages 9–16.
2003
- Roger Levy and David Oshima. 2003. Non-transitive information flow in Japanese noun-classifier matching. In Stefan Müller, editor, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, pages 257–277. CSLI Publications. Available online at \urlhttp://cslipublications.stanford.edu/HPSG/4/.
2002
- Roger Levy. 2002. The Statistical Distribution of English Coordinate Noun Phrases: Parallelism and Weight Effects. Presented at NWAV 31.
- Kenichi Aoki, Daisuke Satoh, and Roger Levy. 2002. Theoretical aspects of brother–sister mating in birds and mammals. In Kenichi Aoki and Takeru Akazawa, editors, Human mate choice and prehistoric marital networks, pages 5–15. Nichibunken, Kyoto, edition.
2001
- Roger Levy and Carl Pollard. 2001. Coordination and Neutralization in HPSG. In Frank Van Eynde, Lars Hellan, and Dorothee Beermann, editors, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, pages 221–234. CSLI Publications. Available online at \urlhttp://csli-publications.stanford.edu/HPSG/2/.