Sentence processing workshop (May 26-28, 2026), at Uni Potsdam

Location

Talks: 3rd floor Besprechungsraum (Room 3.02), Haus 14, in Golm campus.
Coffee breaks: Room 2.15/16

Registration (required to attend workshop)

You need to register to attend the workshop. We have 10 free places; first come, first served, and priority will be given to SFB members.
Please fill out this form to register.

Schedule

May 26

1. 10-11 Brian Dillon: Eye-tracking of agreement dependencies using the Intermittent Judgment Paradigm
2. 11-12 Michael Vrazitulis: Scalable predictive metrics beyond surprisal
3. 12-1:30PM Lunch + coffee
4. 1:30-2:30PM Tal Linzen: Memory constrained language models for cognitive science and AI
5. 2:30-3:30PM Johan Hennert (future SFB member, B03): Can lossy-context surprisal capture both locality and anti-locality effects?
6. 3:30-4PM Coffee break
7. 4-5:30PM Titus von der Malsburg: Diverging Transformer Predictions for Agreement Attraction

May 27

1. 10-11:00 Sara Møller Østergaard: Modeling semantic association with language model embeddings
2. 11-12:00 Leonardo Concetti (SFB Q project): Do grammatically illicit distractors interfere? Evidence from matrix agreement after relative clauses
3. 12-1:30PM Lunch
4. 1:30-2:30PM Ondřej Drobil: On sentence wrap up and structure building
5. 3:00-3:30 Coffee break
6. 3:30-4:30PM Mohammed Said (MA student): Dissecting the Maze Task using Eye-Tracking

May 28

1. 10-11:00 Bruno Nicenboim: A Continuous Flow of Information framework for reading
2. 11-12 Discussions
3. 12-1:30PM Lunch
4. 1:30-2:30 Cui Ding: Spillover Effects in Reading: Individual Differences and Comparing Eye-Movement Models
5. 2:00-2:30 Coffee plus discussions
6. 2:30-3:30PM Pia Schoknecht (affiliated to SFB project B03): Is the garden-path effect sensitive to offline task demands?
7. 3:30-4:30PM Dario Paape: Deconstructing sentence disambiguation by joint latent modeling of reading paradigms