Presentations and posters
The Challenges of Optimizing Machine Translation for Low Resource Cross-Language Information Retrieval
Constantine Lignos, Daniel Cohen, Yen-Chieh Lien,Pratik Mehta, W. Bruce Croft, and Scott Miller
Poster at EMNLP 2019
SARAL: A Low-Resource Cross-Lingual Domain-Focused Information Retrieval System for Effective Rapid Document Triage
Elizabeth Boschee, Joel Barry, Jayadev Billa, Marjorie Freedman, Thamme Gowda, Constantine Lignos, Chester Palen-Michel, Michael Pust, Banriskhem Kayang Khonglah, Srikanth Madikeri, Jonathan May, and Scott Miller
System Demonstration and Poster at ACL 2019
Quantifying cronuts: Predicting the quality of blends
Constantine Lignos and Hilary Prichard
Presentation at the 89th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January 11, 2015
Oscillatory dynamics to time-stretched speech during lexical decision
Jonathan Brennan, Constantine Lignos, Max Cantor, David Embick, and Timothy P.L. Roberts
Poster at the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, August 28, 2014
Breaking up is easy to do: Evidence for decomposition in regular and irregular forms
Constantine Lignos and Kyle Gorman
Presentation at the 88th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January 3, 2014
Examining extragrammatical effects on English auxiliary contraction
Constantine Lignos and Laurel MacKenzie
Poster at the 88th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January 2nd, 2014
Comparing the effects of subject length and predictability on contraction
Constantine Lignos and Laurel MacKenzie
Presentation at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 42, October 19, 2013. See the poster "Examining extragrammatical effects on English auxiliary contraction" for the best summary of the results.
Toward lexical access mechanisms for regular and irregular forms
Constantine Lignos and Kyle Gorman
Poster at the 44th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS44), October 18, 2013
Symbolic constraints and statistical methods: Use together for best results
Constantine Lignos
Presentation at Johns Hopkins Human Language Technology Center of Excellence, February 18, 2013
Modeling domain-narrowing phonological change
Constantine Lignos
Presentation at West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 31, Feburary 8-10, 2013
From lexicon to grammar in infant word segmentation
Constantine Lignos
Presentation at the 87th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January 5, 2013
Toward web-scale analysis of codeswitching
Constantine Lignos and Mitchell P. Marcus
Poster at the 87th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January 5, 2013
Productivity in analogical change
Constantine Lignos
Presentation at the Manchester and Salford New Researchers Forum in Linguistics, November 2-3, 2012
Cuing infants in: From universal to language-specific cues in word segmentation
Constantine Lignos and Charles Yang
Presentation at ICIS 2012. June 6-9, 2012
The subtleties of frequency in morphological processing
Constantine Lignos and Kyle Gorman
Poster at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, March 14-16, 2012
The effect of subject length on contraction
Laurel MacKenzie and Constantine Lignos
Presentation at Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics. March 8-11, 2012. See the poster "Examining extragrammatical effects on English auxiliary contraction" for the best summary of the results.
The journey to word segmentation
Constantine Lignos
Presentation at BUCLD 36, November 4-6, 2011
Using prosody to bootstrap word segmentation in a more realistic learning environment
Constantine Lignos and Charles Yang
Presentation at BCCCD in the symposium "The role of prosody in guiding language learning in pre-lexical infants" organized by Mohinish Shukla, January 14-16, 2011
The power of objects in morphology learning
Constantine Lignos and Jana Beck
Presentation at LSA Annual Meeting, January 6-9, 2011