Curriculum Vitae

Associate Professor and Chair

Psychology Department

University of St. Francis

Joliet, IL

Education

Ph.D. Northwestern University, 2011
Dissertation: The Use of Causal Coherence Information in Disambiguating Pronouns
Advisor: Lance J. Rips
M.A. Northwestern University, 2004
B.A. Tel-Aviv University, 2002

Research Interests

Language and Discourse Processing
Moral Reasoning
Analogical Reasoning and Comparison
Statistical Methods & Computational Modeling
Corpus Statistics

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Tower Hall, Room S211
Joliet, IL 60435

Email: ESagi@stfrancis.edu
Office: (815) 740-3866
Cell: (312) 285-0287

Publications

Journal Articles

2019

Sagi, E. (2019). Taming big data: Applying the experimental method to naturalistic data sets. Behavior Research Methods, 51(4), 1619-1635. doi:10.3758/s13428-018-1185-6

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2018

Sagi, E. (2018). Developing a new method for psychological investigation using text as data. SAGE Research Methods Cases, 2. doi:10.4135/9781526442604

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Marmolejo-Ramos, F., Khatin-Zadeh, O., Yazdani-Fazlabadi, B., Tirado, C., & Sagi, E. (2018). Embodied concept mapping: Blending structure-mapping and embodiment theories. Pragmatics & Cognition, 24(2), 164-185. doi:10.1075/pc.17013.mar

2017

Sagi, E., & Diermeier, D. (2017). Language Use and Coalition Formation in Multiparty Negotiations. Cognitive Science, 41, 259-271. doi:10.1111/cogs.12325

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2016

Dehghani, M., Johnson, K., Hoover, J., Sagi, E., Garten, J., Parmar, N. Jitendra, et al. (2016). Purity Homophily in Social Networks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 366-375. doi:10.1037/xge0000139

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2015

Iliev, R., Dehghani, M., & Sagi, E. (2015). Automated Text Analysis in Psychology: Methods, Applications and Future Developments. Language and Cognition, 7(2), 265-290. doi:10.1017/langcog.2014.30

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2014

Sagi, E., & Rips, L. J. (2014). Identity, Causality, and Pronoun Ambiguity. Topics in Cognitive Science, 6, 663-680. doi:10.1111/tops.12105

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Sagi, E., & Dehghani, M. (2014). Measuring Moral Rhetoric in Text. Social Science Computer Review, 32(2), 132-144. doi:10.1177/0894439313506837

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2013

Sagi, E., Diermeier, D., & Kaufmann, S. (2013). Identifying Issue Frames in Text. PLoS ONE, 8(7), e69185. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0069185

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2012

Sagi, E., Gentner, D., & Lovett, A. (2012). What Difference Reveals About Similarity. Cognitive Science, 36(6), 1019 - 1050. doi:10.1111/j.1551-6709.2012.01250.x

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2009

Lovett, A., Forbus, K., Gentner, D., & Sagi, E. (2009). Using Analogical Mapping to Simulate Time-Course Phenomena in Perceptual Similarity. Cognitive Systems Research, 10, 216-228.

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Book Chapters

2011

German, J., Sagi, E., Kaufmann, S., & Clark, B. (2011). The role of speaker beliefs in determining accent placement. In A. Bentz, Ebert, C., Jager, G., & van Rooij, R. (Eds.), Language, games, and evolution (pp. 92–116). New York, NY: Springer.

Sagi, E., Kaufmann, S., & Clark, B. (2011). Tracing semantic change with Latent Semantic Analysis. In K. Allan & Robinson, J. A. (Eds.), Current Methods in Historical Semantics (pp. 161-183). Berlin, Germany: Mouton de Gruyter.

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Refereed Conference Papers & Other Publications

2018

Sagi, E., & Jones, B. K. (2018). Cognition and Emotion in Narratives of Redemption: An Automated Analysis. In T. T. Rogers, Rau, M., Zhu, X., & Kalish, C. W. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2382-2387). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

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2017

Sagi, E. (2017). Is it fair? Textual effects on the salience of moral foundations. In G. Gunzelmann, Howes, A., Tenbrink, T., & Davelaar, E. J. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3028-3032).

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2015

Sagi, E., Gann, T. M., & Matlock, T. (2015). The Moral Rhetoric of Climate Change. In D. C. Noelle, Dale, R., Warlaumont, A. S., Yoshimi, J., Matlock, T., Jennings, C. D., & Maglio, P. P. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2063-2068).

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2014

Sagi, E., & Dehghani, M. (2014). Moral Rhetoric in Twitter: A Case Study of the U.S. Federal Shutdown of 2013. In P. Bello, Guarini, M., McShane, M., & Scassellati, B. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1347-1352).

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2013

Jamrozik, A., Sagi, E., Goldwater, M., & Gentner, D. (2013). Relational words have high metaphoric potential. In E. Shutova, Beigman-Klebanov, B., Testreault, J., & Kozareva, Z. (Eds.), Proceedings of the First Workshop on Metaphor in NLP (pp. 21-26). Retrieved from http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W13/W13-09.pdf#page=31

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Sagi, E., & Diermeier, D. (2013). The Time Course of Language Use in Multiparty Negotiations. In M. Knauff, Pauen, M., Sebanz, N., & Wachsmuth, I. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3343-3347).

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2010

Sagi, E. (2010). Discourse Structure Effects on the Global Coherence of Texts. In M. Finlayson (Ed.), Computational Models of Narrative, Papers from the 2010 AAAI Fall Symposium (Vol. AAAI Technical report FS-10-04). Retrieved from https://aaai.org/papers/02275-2275-discourse-structure-effects-on-the-global-coherence-of-texts/

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2009

Sagi, E., Kaufmann, S., & Clark, B. (2009). Culture in the Mirror of Language: A Latent Semantic Analysis Approach to Culture. In N. Taatgen, van Rijn, H., Schomaker, L., & Nerbonne, J. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 637-642). Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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Lovett, A., Gentner, D., Sagi, E., & Forbus, K. (2009). Modeling Perceptual Similarity as Analogy Resolves the Paradox of Difference Detection. In B. Kokinov, Holyoak, K., & Gentner, D. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd International Analogy Conference (pp. 320-329). Sofia, Bulgaria.

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Boussidan, A., Sagi, E., & Ploux, S. (2009). Phonaesthemic and Etymological effects on the Distribution of Senses in Statistical Models of Semantics. In Y. Peirsman, Versley, Y., & Van de Cruys, T. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Conference 2009 Workshop on Distributional Semantics beyond Concrete Concepts (pp. 35-40). Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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Sagi, E., Kaufmann, S., & Clark, B. (2009). Semantic Density Analysis: Comparing Word Meaning across Time and Phonetic Space. In R. Basili & Pennacchiotti, M. (Eds.), Proceedings of the EACL 2009 Workshop on GEMS: Geometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics (pp. 104-111). Athens, Greece.

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2008

Otis, K., & Sagi, E. (2008). Phonaesthemes: A Corpus-Based Analysis. In B. C. Love, McRae, K., & Sloutsky, V. M. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 65-70).

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2007

Lovett, A., Sagi, E., & Gentner, D. (2007). Analogy as a mechanism for comparison. In A. Schwering, Krumnack, U., Kühnberger, K. - U., & Gust, H. (Eds.), Proceedings of Analogies: Integrating Multiple Cognitive Abilities (pp. 27-30).

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2006

Sagi, E. (2006). Context and the Processing of Discourse: Priming and Genre Effects on Discourse Comprehension. In R. Sun & Miyake, N. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2071-2076).

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Gentner, D., & Sagi, E. (2006). Does "Different" Imply a Difference? A Comparison of Two Tasks. In R. Sun & Miyake, N. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 261-266). Vancouver, BC.

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Posters & Presentations

2023

Sagi, E., & Jabotinsky, H. Y. (2023). Man or Machine: Evaluations of Human and Machine-Generated Movie Reviews. 64th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. San Francisco, CA.

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Sagi, E. (2023). Supreme Court Oral Arguments by Amici Curiae: A comparative analysis. 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

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2018

Sagi, E., & Jones, B. K. (2018). Cognition and Emotion in Narratives of Redemption: An Automated Analysis. 59th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. New Orleans, LA.

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Marmolejo-Ramos, F., Khatin-Zadeh, O., Yazdani-Fazlabadi, B., Tirado, C., & Sagi, E. (2018). Embodied concept mapping: redefining concepts. 2018 Meeting of the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Sydney, Australia.

Sagi, E. (2018). Language Dynamics in Supreme Court Oral Arguments. 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Madison, WI.

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2017

Sagi, E. (2017). Language Dynamics in Supreme Court Oral Arguments. 58th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Vancouver, BC.

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2016

Jabotinsky, H. Y., & Sagi, E. (2016). Moral Rhetoric in the Basel Accords: A Quantitative Analysis. The 9th International Risk Management Conference. Jerusalem, Israel.

Jabotinsky, H. Y., & Sagi, E. (2016). Moral Rhetoric in the Basel Accords: A Quantitative Analysis. The Conference on Empirical Legal Studies in Europe. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Sagi, E., & Jabotinsky, H. Y. (2016). Moral Rhetoric in the Basel Accords: A Quantitative Analysis. The 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Philadelphia, PA.

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Jabotinsky, H. Y., & Sagi, E. (2016). Moral Rhetoric in the Basel Accords: A Quantitative Analysis. The 11th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies. Durham, NC.

Sagi, E. (2016). Priming Moral Reasoning Using Text. The 57th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Boston, MA.

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2015

Sagi, E. (2015). The Influence of Causal Information on Pronoun Disambiguation. The 56th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Chicago, IL.

Jabotinsky, H. Y., & Sagi, E. (2015). Moral Rhetoric in the Basel Accords: A Quantitative Analysis. The 19th Annual Conference of the Latin and Iberian Law and Economics Association. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Jabotinsky, H. Y., & Sagi, E. (2015). Moral Rhetoric in the Basel Accords: A Quantitative Analysis. The 32nd Annual Conference of the European Association of Law and Economics. Vienna, Austria.

2014

Jabotinsky, H. Y., & Sagi, E. (2014). Moral Rhetoric in the Basel Accords: A Quantitative Analysis. The 10th Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Law and Economics. Rome, Italy.

Sagi, E. (2014). Semantic Vector Spaces as a Tool for Psychological Investigation. The 55th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Long Beach, CA.

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2012

Sagi, E., Diermeier, D., & Kaufmann, S. (2012). A quantitative approach to framing in political speech. 5th ESRC Research Methods Festival. Oxford, UK. Retrieved from http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/TandE/video/RMF2012/filmed.php?id=24bc879

Jamrozik, A., Goldwater, M., Sagi, E., & Gentner, D. (2012). Representational Form and Metaphorical Word Use. The 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Sapporo, Japan.

Sagi, E., Diermeier, D., & Kaufmann, S. (2012). Using large corpora to explore the framing of concepts. The Open Knowledge Festival, 2012. Helsinki, Finland.

2010

Sagi, E. (2010). Nouns are more stable than Verbs: Patterns of semantic change in 19th century English. The 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Portland, OR.

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Sagi, E., Kaufmann, S., Clark, B., & Diermeier, D. (2010). Tracking Changes in Word Meaning and Use. Workshop on Interactive Visual Analysis for Natural Language Processing. Stuttgart, Germany.

2009

Sagi, E. (2009). The perceived importance of explanations in narrative and procedural texts. 16th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Sagi, E., Kaufmann, S., & Clark, B. (2009). Tracing semantic change with Latent Semantic Analysis. The 83rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. San Francisco, CA.

2008

Sagi, E. (2008). Discourse Relations in Context: Structural effects in the comprehension of texts. The 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Washington, DC.

Sagi, E. (2008). Effects of Hierarchical Discourse Structures on the Processing and Comprehension of Texts. The 20th Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science. Chicago, IL.

Invited Talks

2011

Sagi, E., Kaufmann, S., & Diermeier, D. (2011). Quantitative and Qualitative approaches for tracing changes to the framing of issues in political speeches. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

2010

Sagi, E. (2010). Word Vector Spaces as a Tool for Investigating Semantic Change. L2C2, Université Lyon, Lyon, France.

2009

Sagi, E., Kaufmann, S., & Clark, B. (2009). Tracing semantic change with Latent Semantic Analysis. Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO) weekly seminar series, Evanston, IL.

Last modified November 24th, 2019