David Reitter

School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
research interests
computational psycholinguistics
data-intensive, emirical study of the human language processing faculty, in particular: syntactic adaptivity in dialogue. computational natural language processing and generation.
past experience
statistical and cognitive models of language production
PhD, Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh
multimodal dialogue systems
Research Fellow, MIT Media Lab Europe
natural language generation
MSc, Computer Science, UCD, Dublin
statistical rhetorical structure anaysis
Diplom, Linguistics, University of Potsdam
commercial dialogue systems Berlin
radio journalist Berlin
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David's World

PhD Thesis My PhD thesis is now available: it is titled Context Effects in Language Production: Models of Syntactic Priming in Dialogue Corpora. The basic question I'm answering is: How and why are we influenced by another person's structure as we listen... Read more...