Eyal Sagi: Curriculum Vitae
Postdoctoral FellowFord Center for Global Citizenship
Kellogg School of Management
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| Email: eyal@u.northwestern.edu Cell: (312) 927-3424 Fax: (847) 467-1220 |
Education
- Ph.D. Northwestern University, 2011
- M.A. Northwestern University, 2004
- B.A. Tel-Aviv University, Israel, 2002
Research Interests
- Language and Discourse Processing
- Corpus Statistics
- Semantic Change
- Analogical Reasoning and Comparison
Publications
Journal Articles
(In Press). What Difference Reveals about Similarity.
Cognitive Science.
(2009). Using Analogical Mapping to Simulate Time-Course Phenomena in Perceptual Similarity.
Cognitive Systems Research. 10, Abstract
Book Chapters
(2011). Tracing semantic change with Latent Semantic Analysis.
Current Methods in Historical Semantics.
(2010). The role of speaker beliefs in determining accent placement.
(, Ed.).Language, Games, and Evolution.
Other Publications
(2010). Discourse Structure Effects on the Global Coherence of Texts.
(, Ed.).AAAI Fall Symposium on Computational Models of Narrative . AAAI Technical report FS-10-04, Abstract
(2009). Culture in the Mirror of Language: A Latent Semantic Analysis Approach to Culture.
(, Ed.).Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Abstract
Download: SagiKaufmannClark-CogSci09.pdf (564.95 KB)
(2009). Modeling Perceptual Similarity as Analogy Resolves the Paradox of Difference Detection.
Proceedings of the 2nd International Analogy Conference. Abstract
(2009). Phonaesthemic and Etymological effects on the Distribution of Senses in Statistical Models of Semantics.
(, Ed.).Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Conference 2009 Workshop on Distributional Semantics beyond Concerete Concepts. Abstract
Download: BoussidanSagiPloux-DiSCO09.pdf (241.37 KB)
(2009). Semantic Density Analysis: Comparing Word Meaning across Time and Phonetic Space.
(, Ed.).Proceedings of the EACL 2009 Workshop on GEMS: Geometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics. Abstract
Download: SagiKaufmannClark-GEMS09.pdf (882.13 KB)
(2008). Phonaesthemes: A corpora-based analysis.
(, Ed.).Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Download: OtisSagi-CogSci08.pdf (515.02 KB)
(2007). Analogy as a mechanism for comparison.
(, Ed.).Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
(2006). Context and the Processing of Discourse: Priming and Genre Effects on Discourse Comprehension.
(, Ed.).Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Download: Sagi-Paper-CogSci06.pdf (137.44 KB)
(2006). Does "Different" Imply a Difference? A Comparison of Two Tasks.
(, Ed.).Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Download: GentnerSagi-Paper-CogSci06.pdf (200.07 KB)
Posters & Presentations
(2010). Nouns are more stable than Verbs: Patterns of semantic change in 19th century English.
The 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Download: Sagi-CogSci2010-RelativeChangeInNounsAndVerbs.pdf (538.63 KB)
(2010). Tracking Changes in Word Meaning and Use.
Workshop on Interactive Visual Analysis for Natural Language Processing.
(2009). The perceived importance of explanations in narrative and procedural texts.
16th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse.
(2009). Tracing semantic change with Latent Semantic Analysis.
The 83rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.
(2008). Discourse Relations in Context: Structural effects in the comprehension of texts.
The 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
(2008). Effects of Hierarchical Discourse Structures on the Processing and Comprehension of Texts.
The 20th Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science.
(2008). Semantic Glimmers: Phonaesthemes facilitate access to sentence meaning.
The 9th conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse & Language.
(2008). Tracing semantic change with Latent Semantic Analysis.
The 15th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics.
(2008). Using Latent Semantic Analysis to Examine the Relationship between Sound and Meaning.
The 41st Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology.
(2007). Does “Different” Imply a Difference? A Comparison of Two Tasks.
The annual Northwestern-University of Chicago Psychology Graduate Students Conference.
(2007). The Effect of the Speaker’s Motivation on the Interpretation of Logical Connectives.
The 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Download: GermanEtal-Poster-CogSci07.pdf (306.13 KB)
(2006). Are Coherence relations computed during reading? Evidence from a priming experiment.
The 16th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. Download: Sagi-Poster-DiscProc06.pdf (156.01 KB)
(2006). The role of hearer's beliefs in the interpretation of logical connectives.
Games and Decisions in Pragmatics II.
(2005). Coherence: A psychological perspective.
The annual Northwestern-University of Chicago Psychology Graduate Students Conference.
Invited Talks
Last modified November 28th, 2011
