Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025

THURSDAY
9:15:00 AM	9:45:00 AM		Registration, coffee
9:45:00 AM	10:00:00 AM		Introduction, welcome
10:00:00 PM	10:20:00 PM	Short talk	Disentangling Spillover: Individual Differences Across Multiple Dimensions Cui Ding, Ethan Wilcox, Lena Ann Jäger
10:20:00 AM	10:40:00 AM	Short talk	A computational model of individual differences children’s vocabulary growth: Are differences in phonological working memory capacity necessary and sufficient? Andrew Jessop, Julian Pine, Fernand Gobet
10:40:00 AM	11:00:00 AM	Short talk	Simulating bilingual reading with language models: Effects of word frequency on cognate and interlingual homograph processing Iza Škrjanec, Irene Elisabeth Winther, Vera Demberg, Stefan L. Frank
11:00:00 AM	11:20:00 AM	Short talk	Providing a Multi-Agent Computational Laboratory for Language Acquisition Experiments David Ph. Shakouri, Crit Cremers, Niels O. Schiller
11:20:00 AM	11:40:00 AM	Break
11:40:00 AM	12:40:00 PM	Keynote	Modelling individual differences in pragmatic processing with ACT-R Vera Demberg
12:40:00 PM	2:20:00 PM	Lunch
2:20:00 PM	2:40:00 PM	Short talk	Improved Reading Time Predictions from Word-Level Contextual Entropy Christian Clark, Byung-Doh Oh, William Schuler
2:40:00 PM	3:00:00 PM	Short talk	A cute horgous meets a scary timfil: how do we interpret novel words in context? Ngoc-Anh Tran, Kazimierz Garstecki, Giovanni Cassani
3:00:00 PM	3:20:00 PM	Short talk	Large Language Models are Human-Like Internally Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Yohei Oseki, Souhaib Ben Taieb, Kentaro Inui, Timothy Baldwin
3:20:00 PM	3:40:00 PM	Short talk	Predicting Collocational Preferences: A Corpus-Based Approach to Grammatical Sensitivity Bálint József Ugrin, Ágnes Lukács
3:40:00 PM	4:00:00 PM	Break
4:00:00 PM	4:40:00 PM		Poster spotlight talks A Corpus of Joint EEG and Self-Paced Reading of Natural Dutch Texts Incremental RSA Model Explains Adjective Ordering Preferences by Communicative Efficiency Across Contexts Informativity, predictability and partial pooling Beyond surprisal: GPT-derived attention metrics offer additional explanatory power in predicting the N400 during naturalistic reading A Bayesian meta-analysis of inductive bias in phonological learning Surprisal is Influenced by Syntax and Semantics, but not Equally across Language Models Eye Tracking Based Cognitive Evaluation of Automatic Readability Assessment Measures Towards a new model of spoken-word recognition Is argument structure processing syntactic or semantic in nature? Evidence from computational modeling on naturalistic fMRI
4:40:00 PM	6:20:00 PM		Posters (+ coffee) Contextual Semantic Relevance Predicting Human Visual Attention LLMs as assistants or tests subjects? A case study on gender association word norms Structural sensitivity does not entail grammaticality: assessing LLMs against UHFH An eye-tracking approach to meaning representation Gradual judgements from rival constructions Exploring the impact of dependency length on learnability Exemplar theoretic modelling of the perception of phrasal prominence Processing Gaps: Explaining Human-Model Misalignment in Filler-Gap Dependency Parsing Syntactic Node Count as Index of Predictability A Corpus of Joint EEG and Self-Paced Reading of Natural Dutch Texts Incremental RSA Model Explains Adjective Ordering Preferences by Communicative Efficiency Across Contexts Informativity, predictability and partial pooling Beyond surprisal: GPT-derived attention metrics offer additional explanatory power in predicting the N400 during naturalistic reading A Bayesian meta-analysis of inductive bias in phonological learning Surprisal is Influenced by Syntax and Semantics, but not Equally across Language Models Eye Tracking Based Cognitive Evaluation of Automatic Readability Assessment Measures Towards a new model of spoken-word recognition Is argument structure processing syntactic or semantic in nature? Evidence from computational modeling on naturalistic fMRI
7:00:00 PM		Dinner
FRIDAY
09:00:00 AM	09:20:00 AM	Short talk	Different Reading Processing Stages or Different Brain Areas? A Computational Cognitive Investigation on N400, P600, and PNP Lavinia Salicchi, Yu-Yin Hsu
09:20:00 AM	09:40:00 AM	Short talk	Semantic Update as a Predictor of Reading Time: Moving Beyond Word-Level Surprisal Siddharth Gupta, Alessandro Lopopolo, Milena Rabovsky
09:40:00 AM	10:00:00 AM	Short talk	The CoFI Reader: A Continuous Flow of Information approach to modeling reading Bruno Nicenboim
10:00:00 AM	10:20:00 AM	Break
10:20:00 AM	11:20:00 PM	Keynote	Simulating bilingual sentence production with the Dual-Path model Stefan Frank
11:20:00 PM	1:00:00 PM	Lunch
1:00:00 PM	1:40:00 PM		Poster spotlight talks Generalizing Without Evidence: How Transformer Models Infer Syntactic Rules From Sparse Input Dependency Length, Syntactic Complexity & Memory: A Reading Time Benchmark for Sentence Processing Modeling GEPPU: An Eye-Tracking and Self-Paced Reading Benchmark Dataset for German Sentence Processing Age and Language Experience Modulate Predictive Processing in the Visual Modality The Learnability of Model-Theoretic Interpretation Functions in Artificial Neural Networks RSA model of referential expression production and comprehension under noise Does multimodal pre-activation influence linguistic expectations in LLMs and humans? Grammar as logic, processing as deduction, actions as theorems, states as propositions
1:40:00 PM	3:20:00 PM		Poster (+ coffee) Evaluating Syntactic Generalization in Mulilingual Language Models through Targeted Test Suites Grounded Acquisition of Color Terms by a Computational Model One rule to learn them all? The logistic perceptron vs. Widrow-Hoff / Rescorla-Wagner Benchmarking Sentence Processing Models: Do Surprisal and Lossy-Context Surprisal Outperform Theory? Predicting compound branching directions with distributional semantics Expectation-based model informing cross-linguistic differences in argument interpretation between Russian and Swedish Affective Semantics across Contextual Frames: Semantic Prosody vs Sentence-Level Annotation in the feel blue Corpus Salient signals: Quantifier semantics and multimodal cues as predictors of discourse relations What does it take to predict RTs in Maltese subliminal language processing? Traditional experimental predictors vs. predictors based on distributional semantics Individual differences and models of pronoun interpretation Modeling Cue-based retrieval and prediction based on morpheme-level cues The success of Neural Language Models on syntactic island effects is not universal: strong wh-island sensitivity in English but not in Dutch Generalizing Without Evidence: How Transformer Models Infer Syntactic Rules From Sparse Input Dependency Length, Syntactic Complexity & Memory: A Reading Time Benchmark for Sentence Processing Modeling GEPPU: An Eye-Tracking and Self-Paced Reading Benchmark Dataset for German Sentence Processing Age and Language Experience Modulate Predictive Processing in the Visual Modality The Learnability of Model-Theoretic Interpretation Functions in Artificial Neural Networks RSA model of referential expression production and comprehension under noise Does multimodal pre-activation influence linguistic expectations in LLMs and humans? Grammar as logic, processing as deduction, actions as theorems, states as propositions
3:20:00 PM	3:40:00 PM	Short talk	MG Parsing as a Model of Effort in Online RC Processing Aniello De Santo
3:40:00 PM	4:00:00 PM	Short talk	Modeling human clarification question production through expected regret Polina Tsvilodub, Michael Franke, Robert D. Hawkins
4:00:00 PM	4:20:00 PM	Short talk	Quantifying Interpretation Strategies for Embedded Implicatures in a Markov Decision Network Anton Benz
4:20:00 PM	4:30:00 PM		Best poster, Best talk award.

Lunch will be provided on both days.

The conference dinner will take place at Indonesian restaurant Djakartain the form of a buffet.

See a list of the accepted submissions on OpenReview.

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