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Eyal Sagi: Curriculum Vitae

Portrait of Eyal

Eyal Sagi


Graduate Student
Northwestern University
Psychology Department
Swift Hall, 2029 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60201
ermon@northwestern.edu
Cell: (312) 927-3424
Fax: (847) 491-7859

Education

  • B.A. Tel-Aviv University, Israel, 2002
  • M.A. Northwestern University, 2004

Research

  • Language and Discourse Processing
  • Analogical Reasoning and Comparison

Publications

2009
Lovett, Andrew, Kenneth Forbus, Dedre Gentner, & Eyal Sagi (2009).  Using Analogical Mapping to Simulate Time-Course Phenomena in Perceptual Similarity. Cognitive Systems Research. 10, Abstract
2009
Lovett, Andrew, Dedre Gentner, Eyal Sagi, & Kenneth Forbus (2009).  Modeling Perceptual Similarity as Analogy Resolves the Paradox of Difference Detection. Proceedings of the 2nd International Analogy Conference. Abstract
Boussidan, Armelle, Eyal Sagi, & Sabine Ploux (2009).  Phonaesthemic and Etymological effects on the Distribution of Senses in Statistical Models of Semantics. ( Peirsman Y., Versley Y., de Cruys T., Ed.).Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Conference 2009 Workshop on Distributional Semantics beyond Concerete Concepts. Abstract  Download: BoussidanSagiPloux-DiSCO09.pdf (241.37 KB)
Sagi, Eyal, Stefan Kaufmann, & Brady Clark (2009).  Semantic Density Analysis: Comparing Word Meaning across Time and Phonetic Space. ( Basili R., Pennacchiotti M., Ed.).Proceedings of the EACL 2009 Workshop on GEMS: Geometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics. Abstract  Download: SagiKaufmannClark-GEMS09.pdf (882.13 KB)
Sagi, Eyal, Stefan Kaufmann, & Brady Clark (2009).  Culture in the Mirror of Language: A Latent Semantic Analysis Approach to Culture. ( Taatgen N., van Rijn H., Schomaker L., Nerbonne J., Ed.).Proceddings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Abstract  Download: SagiKaufmannClark-CogSci09.pdf (564.95 KB)
2008
Otis, Katya, & Eyal Sagi (2008).  Phonaesthemes: A corpora-based analysis. ( Love B.C., McRae K., Sloutsky V.M., Ed.).Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.  Download: OtisSagi-CogSci08.pdf (515.02 KB)
2007
Lovett, Andrew, Eyal Sagi, & Dedre Gentner (2007).  Analogy as a mechanism for comparison. ( McNamara D., Trafton G., Ed.).Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
2006
Sagi, Eyal (2006).  Context and the Processing of Discourse: Priming and Genre Effects on Discourse Comprehension. ( Sun R., Miyake N., Ed.).Proceddings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.  Download: Sagi-Paper-CogSci06.pdf (137.44 KB)
Gentner, Dedre, & Eyal Sagi (2006).  Does "Different" Imply a Difference? A Comparison of Two Tasks. ( Sun R., Miyake N., Ed.).Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.  Download: GentnerSagi-Paper-CogSci06.pdf (200.07 KB)

Posters & Presentations

2009
Sagi, Eyal (2009).  The perceived importance of explanations in narrative and procedural texts. 16th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse.
Sagi, Eyal, Stefan Kaufmann, & Brady Clark (2009).  Tracing semantic change with Latent Semantic Analysis. The 83rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.
2008
Sagi, Eyal, Stefan Kaufmann, & Brady Clark (2008).  Tracing semantic change with Latent Semantic Analysis. The 15th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics.
Sagi, Eyal, & Katya Otis (2008).  Using Latent Semantic Analysis to Examine the Relationship between Sound and Meaning. The 41st Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology.
Sagi, Eyal (2008).  Discourse Relations in Context: Structural effects in the comprehension of texts. The 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Sagi, Eyal (2008).  Effects of Hierarchical Discourse Structures on the Processing and Comprehension of Texts. The 20th Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science.
Sagi, Eyal, & Katya Otis (2008).  Semantic Glimmers: Phonaesthemes facilitate access to sentence meaning. The 9th conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse & Language.
2007
German, James, Eyal Sagi, Stefan Kaufmann, Brady Clark, & Min-Joo Kim (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)
Sagi, Eyal, & Dedre Gentner (2007).  Does “Different” Imply a Difference? A Comparison of Two Tasks. The annual Northwestern-University of Chicago Psychology Graduate Students Conference.
2006
Sagi, Eyal (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)
German, James, Eyal Sagi, Brady Clark, Min-Joo Kim, & Stefan Kaufmann (2006).  The role of hearer's beliefs in the interpretation of logical connectives. Games and Decisions in Pragmatics II.
2005
Sagi, Eyal (2005).  Coherence: A psychological perspective. The annual Northwestern-University of Chicago Psychology Graduate Students Conference.

 

Last modified February 12th, 2010