Dr Matthew Green
- Demonstrator In Psychology
- Poole House P104, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB
Biography
I studied Cognitive Science at the University of Exeter in the Psychology and Computing Science departments, followed by a Masters in Psychological Research Methods, and a PhD in Psycholinguistics. I then took up a series of posts at the University of Aberdeen: Research Fellowship in Computing Science [Natural Language Generation]; Teaching Fellowship in Psychology; Research Fellowship in Computing Science [Scrutable Autonomous Systems]. I am currently working in Psychology at Bournemouth University.
Research
The Computational Linguistics community provides well-specified and fully-implemented models of parser load during sentence processing (e.g., surprisal; entropy reduction). These models await further testing by the Psycholinguistics community using human readers (e.g., by evaluating model parser load predictions against human sentence processing difficulty measured using eye-tracking). My current research aims to carry out some of this testing.
I am also involved in developing a way of evaluating hypotheses about foraging behaviour using eye-tracking and agent-based modelling.
Favourites
- Green, M.J., 2014. On Repairing Sentences: An Experimental and Computational Analysis of Recovery from Unexpected Syntactic Disambiguation in Sentence Parsing. PhD Thesis. University of Exeter, Psychology.
- Green, M.J., 2014. An eye-tracking evaluation of some parser complexity metrics. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Predicting and Improving Text Readability for Target Reader Populations, PITR 2014 at the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2014, 38-46.
- Mitchell, D.C., Shen, X., Green, M.J. and Hodgson, T.L., 2008. Accounting for regressive eye-movements in models of sentence processing: A reappraisal of the Selective Reanalysis hypothesis. Journal of Memory and Language, 59 (3), 266-293.
- Mitchell, D.C., Shen, X. and Green, M.J., 2007. Does selective reanalysis really play a role in sentence processing? : implications for computational models of eye-movement behaviour. In: 13th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing 24-27 August 2007 Turku, Finland.
- Green, M.J. and Mitchell, D.C., 2006. Absence of real evidence against competition during syntactic ambiguity resolution. Journal of Memory and Language, 55 (1), 1-17.
