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I am a Ph.D student in the Department of Linguistics at University College London (UCL).
My primary research interests centre around topics in Psycholinguistics, Experimental Syntax, Research Methods and, more recently, also Computational Linguistics. I am currently working with my supervisor Dr. Andrea Santi on prediction during language comprehension, specifically during the processing of filler-gap (movement) dependencies and other non-adjacent elements. We are also interested in using data from computational language models (LMs) in order to learn more about the cognitive mechanisms which underlie human sentence processing.
Contact: lily.nentcheva.15@ucl.ac.uk
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Next stop: Prague. Come and see our poster at the AMLaP annual conference and share your thoughts about the gap-filling mechanism parsers employ for dependency resolution. Are (object) gap predictions 'hyper-active'? How specific are they? Only eye-tracking data can tell...
-Sept 2025-
Crashing the Crick & Partner Universities Summer Symposium to hear what our friends from the Life Sciences departments have to say about how constraints on cognition shape the mechanisms we employ for language comprehension. Read our abstract here at #53!
-Jul 2025-
Join us as we talk with the Language Processing Lab at U Chicago about the role of memory in shaping predictions during filler-gap dependency comprehension, with a focus on whether Entropy Reduction (Hale, 2006) can account for human data. Alternatively, join us as we try to drink a beer in all 77 Chicago neighbourhoods...
-Apr 2025-
Arrived in College Park, MD just in time for the cherry blossoms and the HSP 38th Annual Meeting, of course!
Check out our talk about whether memory mechanisms account for the divergence between human and language model predictions during filler-gap dependency processing which was nominated for the Gibson-Fedorenko Young Scholar Award!
-Mar 2025-
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