Justine T. Kao
Ph.D. student, Cognitive Psychology
Email: justinek at stanford dot edu Office: 420-346 (Jordan Hall) CV
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Justine T. KaoPh.D. student, Cognitive PsychologyEmail: justinek at stanford dot edu Office: 420-346 (Jordan Hall) CV |
I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University. I work in Professor Noah Goodman's Computation and Cognition Lab. I am primarily interested in cognitive mechanisms that enable the processing and understanding of non-literal language such as metaphor, hyperbole, word play, and narrative. In particular, I aim to use behavioral experiments and computational models to examine how people infer rich meanings from sparse and often ambiguous linguistic input.
Applying n-gram language models and topic models to detect intentional ambiguity in creative word play. [Collaborators: Noah Goodman, Roger Levy].
Developing Bayesian models of pragmatics and social cognition for the interpretation of number words. [Collaborators: Jean Wu, Leon Bergen, Noah Goodman ].
Kao, J.T. & Jurafsky, D. (2012). A computational analysis of style, affect, and imagery in contemporary poetry. NAACL Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature. [pdf].
Ramscar, M., Kao, J.T., Dye, M., & Ryan, R. (under review) Princesses, peas and probabilities: readers' sensitivity to the "surface" statistics of literary and non-literary English.
Kao, J.T. (2011). A Computational Analysis of Poetic Craft in Contemporary Professional and Amateur Poetry. Undergraduate Honors thesis. [Advisor: Dan Jurafsky]. [Robert M. Golden medal for excellence in the humanities and creative arts]. [pdf].
Kao, J.T., Zweig, G. & Nguyen, P. (2011). Discriminative Duration Modeling for Speech Recognition with Segmental Conditional Random Fields. Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. [pdf].
Zweig, G., Nguyen, P., Van Compernolle, D., Demuynck, K., Atlas, L., Clark, P., Sell, T., Wang, M., Sha, F., Hermansky, H., Karakos, D., Jansen, A., Thomas, S., G.S.V.S., S., Bowman, S., Kao, J.T. (2011). Speech Recognition with Segmental Conditional Random Fields: A Summary of the JHU CLSP 2010 Summer Workshop. Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. [pdf].
Kao, J.T., Ryan, R., Dye, M. & Ramscar, M. (2010). An acquired taste: How reading literature affects sensitivity to word distributions when judging literary texts. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [pdf].