computational linguistics, experimental psycholinguistics (Eyetracking, Visual World, Pupillometry, some EEG together with collaborators) and psycholinguistic modelling of discourse relation processing. I work on information theoretic approaches to language comprehension and production, and have worked on incremental and predictive models.
Relevant Publications:
- Incremental and predictive discourse processing based on causal and concessive discourse markers: ERP studies on German and English; Heiner Drenhaus, Vera Demberg, Judith Koehne and Francesca Delogu; in the Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2014).
- On the Information Conveyed by Discourse Markers. Fatemeh Torabi Asr and Vera Demberg. In Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL) 2013, Sofia, Bulgaria
- The Time-course of Processing Discourse Connectives; Judith Köhne and Vera Demberg; In M. Knauff, M., Pauen, N., Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.). Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2013, Berlin). Austin TX: Cognitive Science Society.
- Measuring the Strength of Linguistic Cues for Discourse Relations; Fatemeh Torabi Asr and Vera Demberg. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Advances in Discourse Analysis and its Computational Aspects (ADACA), Mumbai, India, Dec 2012
- Implicitness of Discourse Relations; Fatemeh Torabi Asr and Vera Demberg; In Proceedings of COLING 2012, Mumbai, India, Dec 2012