Research

 

Peer-reviewed papers

 

  1. Weijie Xu & Richard Futrell. (under revision). Strategic resource allocation in memory encoding: An efficiency principle shaping language processing.

  2. Weijie Xu & Richard Futrell. (resubmitted). Informativity enhances memory robustness against interference in sentence comprehension.

  3. Weijie Xu & Richard Futrell. (2024). A hierarchical Bayesian model for syntactic priming. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46.   [pdf]   [code]

  4. Weijie Xu & Richard Futrell. (2024). Syntactic dependency length shaped by strategic memory allocation. In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP.   [pdf]   [code]

  5. Weijie Xu, Jason Chon, Tianran Liu & Richard Futrell. (2023). The Linearity of the effect of surprisal on reading times across languages. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023.   [pdf]   [code]

  6. Ming Xiang, Christopher Kennedy, Weijie Xu & Timothy Leffel. (2022). Pragmatic reasoning and semantic convention: A case study on gradable adjectives. Semantics and Pragmatics 15.   [pdf]

  7. Weijie Xu & Ming Xiang. (2021). Is there a predictability hierarchy in reference resolution? In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 43.   [pdf]

 

Conference presentations

 

2024

  1. Weijie Xu & Richard Futrell. A hierarchical Bayesian model for syntactic priming. Poster at the 37th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP), Ann Arbor, May 16-18.

  2. Weijie Xu & Richard Futrell. Dependency length shaped by strategic memory allocation: A corpus study in 11 language. Poster at the 37th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP), Ann Arbor, May 16-18.

  3. Weijie Xu & Richard Futrell. Syntactic dependency length shaped by strategic memory allocation. Oral presentation at the 6th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP (SIGTYP), Malta, Mar 21.

  4. Weijie Xu & Richard Futrell. Dependency locality shaped by resource rationality: Evidence from English and Spanish. Oral presentation at California Meeting on Psycholinguistics (CAMP), Palo Alto, Jan 13-14.

  5. Weijie Xu & Richard Futrell. A hierarchical Bayesian model for syntactic priming. Poster at California Meeting on Psycholinguistics (CAMP), Palo Alto, Jan 13-14.

2023
  1. Weijie Xu & Richard Futrell. Dependency locality optimized for computational rationality. Poster at the 2nd Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Asia (AMLaP Asia), Hong Kong, Dec 1-3.   [pdf]
2022

  1. Weijie Xu & Richard Futrell. Informativity enhances memory precision in the agreement attraction effect. Poster at the 28th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), York, Sept 7-9.   [pdf]

  2. Weijie Xu, Jiaxuan Li, Ming Xiang & Richard Futrell. Syntactic adaptation to short-term cue-based distributional regularities. Poster at the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci), Toronto, July 27-30.   [pdf]

  3. Weijie Xu & Richard Futrell. Informativity affects memory precision in the agreement attraction effect. Poster at the 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP), Santa Cruz, March 24-26.

  4. Weijie Xu, Jiaxuan Li & Ming Xiang. Syntactic adaptation to short-term cue-based distributional regularities. Poster at the 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP), Santa Cruz, March 24-26.

2021

  1. Weijie Xu & Ming Xiang. Is there a predictability hierarchy in reference resolution? Poster at the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci), Vienna, July 26-29.   [pdf]

  2. Weijie Xu & Ming Xiang. Processing referring expressions: accessibility is not predictability. Poster at the 34th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Philadelphia, March 4-6.   [pdf]

  3. Ming Xiang & Weijie Xu. Reanalysis difficulty modulates cumulative structural priming effects in sentence comprehension. Poster at the 34th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Philadelphia, March 4-6.   [pdf]

  4. Ming Xiang, Christine Gu, Yixue Quan, Weijie Xu & Suiping Wang. Probability matching vs. regularization in contact-induced syntactic change. Poster at the 34th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Philadelphia, March 4-6. [pdf]