Radboud University
Erasmusplein 1 ⟡ Room 6.01 (but currently working from home)
6525HT Nijmegen ⟡ The Netherlands
⟡ +31 24 3615491 ⟡ @StefanLFrank
⟡ +31 24 3615491 ⟡ @StefanLFrank
Recurrent neural network models of bilingual sentence processing
Computational Psycholinguistics Group
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, December 2020
Simulating bilingual sentence production: code switching and cross-linguistic priming
Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle
Université de Paris, France, November 2020
Computers, cognition, and communication: What Artificial Intelligence teaches us about language
Studium Generale
Maastricht University, The Netherlands, November 2020
Neural language models and human reading behaviour
Computational Neuroscience Unit
University of Bristol, United Kingdom, October 2020
Recurrent neural network models and bilingual sentence processing
Department of Experimental Psychology
University College London, United Kingdom, June 2019
A connectionist model of code switching in bilingual sentence production
Department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics
Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, May 2019
Investigating bilingual sentence reading using statistical language models
Workshop "What's Special about Multilingualism?"
University of Fribourg, Switzerland, February 2019
Quantifying prediction with next-word entropy (is a pretty bad idea)
Workshop on Prediction in Language
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, December 2018
Sentence comprehension as incremental disambiguation: an information-theoretic perspective
Workshop "Ambiguity as (Information) Gaps"
Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen, Germany, November 2018
Using computational linguistics to study naturalistic language comprehension in the brain
Research colloquium "Philosophy meets Cognitive Science"
Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany, June 2018
Lexical representation explains cortical entrainment during sentence comprehension
Workshop "Grammars, Computation and Cognition"
University of Amsterdam, December 2017
Anticipation in language comprehension: prediction and priming show distinct patterns of brain activity
Language and Learning Lab
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, October 2016
Studying language processing in the brain with computational models
Department of Philosophy and History of Science
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, October 2016
Studying language processing in the brain with computational models
Amsterdam Brain & Cognition Summer School
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 2016
Anticipation in language comprehension: prediction and priming show distinct patterns of brain activity
Department of Experimental Psychology
University College London, UK, April 2016
Word anticipation during language comprehension: Neural effects of surprisal and semantic distance
Centre for Language Studies
Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, November 2015
Language statistics and brain activity during sentence comprehension
INCERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroscience Unit
Paris, France, November 2015
Language statistics and brain activity during sentence comprehension
Workshop Frequency metrics in psycho- and sociolinguistics
Freiburg, Germany, July 2015
Your brain on computational linguistics
Israeli Seminar on Computational Linguistics
Ra'anana, Israel, June 2015
Studying sentence comprehension with statistical language models
Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, January 2015
Studying sentence comprehension with statistical language models
School of Psychology
University of Nottingham, UK, October 2014
Exploring the brain's response to word information
Department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics
Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, January 2014
Exploring the brain's response to word information
School of Psychology
University of Birmingham, UK, January 2014
Exploring the brain's response to word information
Tilburg Center for Cognition and Communication
Tilburg University, The Netherlands, December 2013
How hierarchical is language use? Evidence from eye tracking, EEG, and statistical language models
Artificial Intelligence Lab
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, April 2013
Predicting cognitive effort during reading: Eye tracking and EEG
Centre for Language Studies
Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, March 2013
Predicting cognitive effort during reading: Eye tracking and EEG
Stem Cell & Brain Research Institute
Lyon, France, January 2013
Effects of word predictability during reading: language models explain reading time and pupil size
Cognitive Psychology Laboratory
University of Aix-Marseille, France, April 2012
Cross-language structural priming in recurrent neural network language models
43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
Vienna, Austria (but online), July 2021
Error-driven learning as a mechanism for cross-language structural priming (with Yung Han Khoe)
International Conference on Error-Driven Learning in Language
Tübingen, Germany (but online), March 2021
The interaction between structure and meaning in sentence comprehension: Recurrent neural networks and reading times
41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
Montreal, Canada, July 2019
The interaction between structure and meaning in sentence comprehension: Recurrent neural networks and reading times
40th TABU Dag
Groningen, The Netherlands, June 2019
Sensitivity to language statistics in first and second language reading [poster]
Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing
Berlin, Germany, September 2018
Sensitivity to language statistics in first and second language reading [poster]
2nd International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children
Braunschweig, Germany, May 2018
Lexical representation explains cortical entrainment during speech perception [poster]
13th International Conference for Cognitive Neuroscience
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 2017
Word embedding distance does not predict word reading time
39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
London, UK, July 2017
Non-syntactic processing explains cortical entrainment during speech perception
39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
London, UK, July 2017
Non-syntactic processing explains cortical entrainment during speech perception
30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing
Cambridge, MA, March 2017
Statistical learning bias predicts second-language reading efficiency
38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
Philadelphia, PA, August 2016
From words to behaviour via semantic networks
38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society and 15th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop
Philadelphia, PA, August 2016
Sensitivity to language statistics during reading: (How) do do native and non-natives differ?
Symposium on non-nativeness
Nijmegen, The Netherlands, June 2016
Anticipation in language comprehension: word probability and semantic relatedness reveal distinct patterns of brain activity
International Meeting of the Psychonomic Society
Granada, Spain, May 2016
Modelling bilingual sentence reading
10th International Symposium on Bilingualism
New Brunswick, NJ, May 2015
Cross-linguistic differences in processing double-embedded relative clauses: Working-memory constraints or language statistics?
Workshop Modelling the mechanisms: Challenges and aims for usage-based computational models of grammatical development
Osnabrück, Germany, September 2014
Modelling reading times in bilingual sentence comprehension
14th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop
Lancaster, UK, August 2014
Modelling reading times in bilingual sentence comprehension
34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
Québec City, Canada, July 2014
Cross-linguistic differences in processing double-embedded relative clauses: Working-memory constraints or language statistics? [poster]
34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
Québec City, Canada, July 2014
Word and part-of-speech surprisal predict N400 and ELAN amplitude during reading [poster]
Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing
Marseille, France, September 2013
Language-specific influence on short-term forgetting in sentence comprehension: Evidence from Dutch [poster]
Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing
Marseille, France, September 2013
Word surprisal predicts N400 amplitude during reading
51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Sofia, Bulgaria, August 2013
The origin of surprisal effects during reading: evidence from pupillometry [poster]
Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing
Riva del Garda, Italy, September 2012
Modelling cognitive effort during reading: Neural networks outperform grammars (again)
13th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop
San Sebastian, Spain, July 2012
Early effects of word surprisal on pupil size during reading [poster]
34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
Sapporo, Japan, August 2012
Word information as a measure of cognitive effort in sentence comprehension
4th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference
London, UK, July 2012
Lexical surprisal as a general predictor of reading time
13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Avignon, France, April 2012