Language and Computation advanced course:
Computational Psycholinguistics.

• Roger Levy ()

Over the last two decades, computational linguistics has been revolutionized by increases in computing power, large linguistic datasets, and a paradigm shift toward the view that language processing by computers is best approached through the tools of statistical inference. During roughly the same time frame, there have been similar theoretical developments in cognitive psychology towards a view of major aspects of human cognition as instances of rational statistical inference, exemplified by work such as Anderson (1990) and Tenenbaum & Griffiths (2001). Developments in these two fields have set the stage for renewed interest in computational approaches to human language processing. Correspondingly, this course covers some of the most exciting developments in computational psycholinguistics over the past decade. The course focuses on probabilistic knowledge and memory in language processing, covering models, algorithms, and key empirical results in the literature.