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Background
and Affiliations
Memory and Language Laboratory
Brain and Cognition Research Unit
Computational Neurosciences Research Cluster
Defence and Security Research Cluster
School of Psychology
University of Adelaide
Resume
Papers
& Talks
Present
Dennis, S., Lee, M. D., & Kinnell, A. (submitted). Bayesian analysis of recognition memory: The case of the list length effect. PDF.
Dennis, S. (2007). Semantic Role Discovery using Nonnegative Tensor Factorization. Report compiled for the Defence Science Technology Organization.
Dennis, S. (2007). The Recognizing Textual Entailment Challenge: An empirical analysis and syntagmatic paradigmatic model. Report compiled for the Defence Science Technology Organization.
Dennis, S. (2007). Serial Order Memory: To chain or not to chain. Presented at the 8th Meeting of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science. Adelaide. July 9-11.Abstract.
Dennis, S., Lee, M. D. & Kinnell, A. (2007). A Bayesian Analysis of Recognition Memory. Presented at the 8th Meeting of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science. Adelaide. July 9-11.Abstract.
Monck, A. & Dennis, S. (2007). The Psychological Reality of Atomic Propositions. Presented at the 8th Meeting of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science. Adelaide. July 9-11.Abstract.
Kinnell, A. & Dennis, S. (2007). The List Length Effect In Recognition Memory: An Analysis Using Remember-Know Responses. Presented at the 8th Meeting of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science. Adelaide. July 9-11.Abstract.
Stone, B. & Dennis, S. (2007). LSA Semantic Fields: Predicting Task-Driven Visual Search on Web Pages. Presented at the 8th Meeting of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science. Adelaide. July 9-11.Abstract.
Huang, T. & Dennis, S. (2007). Contextual reinstatement in prospective memory. Presented at the 8th Meeting of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science. Adelaide. July 9-11.Abstract.
Porter, C., Turley, C., Dennis, S., Hansen, J., Webb, M. & Scholz, J. (2007). Battleships: A Distributed Decision Making Exercise and associated Analysis Tools. Presented at the 8th Meeting of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science. Adelaide. July 9-11.Abstract.
Stone, B. & Dennis, S. (2007). Using LSA Semantic Fields to Predict Eye Movement on Web Pages. The Proceedings of the Twenty Ninth Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Doxas, I., Dennis, S. & Oliver, W. (2007). The dimensionality of language. The Proceedings of the Twenty Ninth Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]. Also presented at Adelaide Mental Life 2006.
Dennis, S. & Kintsch, W. (2007). The text mapping and
inference generation problems in text comprehension: Evaluating a memory-based account. In C. A. Perfetti & F. Schmalhofer (Eds.) Higher level language processes in the brain: Inference and comprehension processes.[PDF].
Dennis, S. & Kintsch, W. (2007). Evaluating theories. In R. Sternberg, R. Roediger, & D. Halpern (Eds.) Critical thinking in psychology. [PDF].
Kintsch, W., McNamara, D., Dennis, S. & Landauer, T. (2007). LSA and meaning: In theory and application. In T. Landauer, D. McNamara, S. Dennis & W. Kintsch Eds. Handbook of Latent Semantic Analysis. Erlbaum.
Dennis, S. (2007). Introducing word order in an LSA framework. In T. Landauer, D. McNamara, S. Dennis & W. Kintsch Eds. Handbook of Latent Semantic Analysis. Erlbaum. [PDF].
Dennis, S. (2007). How to use the LSA website. In T. Landauer, D. McNamara, S. Dennis & W. Kintsch Eds. Handbook of Latent Semantic Analysis. Erlbaum. [PDF].
2006
Dennis, S. & Lee, M. D. (2006). Bayesian Inference for Signal Detection Models of Recognition Memory. Margaret River Workshop, 12-14 July. [PPT].
Dennis, S. (2006). Modelling the virtual machine in simple categorization and rating tasks. Symposium on Categorization and Memory. International Conference on Memory. 16-21 July. University of New South Wales. Sydney. [PPT].
Dennis, S. (2006). A Syntagmatic Paradigmatic Model of Serial Order Memory. Memory and Concept Formation Workshop. 11 July. University of Western Australia. Perth. [PPT].
Dennis, S. & Monck A. (2006). The Psychological Reality of Atomic Propositions. Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference. Brisbane 21-23 April.[PPT].
Steyvers, M., Griffiths, T. L. & Dennis, S. (2006). Probabilistic Inference in Human Semantic Memory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 10(7). 327-334. [PDF]. Elsevier.
2005
Dennis, S. (2005). An exemplar-based approach to unsupervised parsing. The
Proceedings of the Twenty Seventh Conference of the Cognitive Science
Society.[PDF]
Dennis, S. (2005). A Memory-based Theory of
Verbal Cognition. Cognitive Science. 29(2). 145-193.[PDF]
[Old Version
contaiing EM derivations and numerical examples PDF]
2004
Garvin-Doxas, K., Doxas, I. & Dennis, S. (2004). Computer Assisted Misconception Identification and Evaluation in the Sciences, American Evaluation Association, Atlanta, GA.
Dennis, S. (2004). An unsupervised method for the
extraction of propositional information from text. Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences, 101, 5206-5213. [PDF]
NSF Press
Release
Dennis, S. (2004). Span-based Normalized Edit Distance applied to unsupervised parsing. Adelaide Mental Life. [PDF].
Dennis, S. (2004). The Effectiveness of Automated Essay Assessment in a Tertiary Context: A Progress Report. Assignment for Teaching at University course, University of Adelaide. [PDF].
2003
Dennis, S, Jurafsky, D. & Cer, D. (2003). Supervised and
unsupervised models for propositional analysis. Workshop on Syntax,
Semantics and Statistics at the Neural Information Processing Society
Conference. Vancouver, BC. [PDF].
Dennis, S., Landauer, T., Kintsch, W. & Quesada,
J. (2003). Introduction to Latent Semantic Analysis. Slides from the
tutorial given at the 25th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science
Society, Boston. [PDF]
Dennis, S. (2003). Inference by coincidence and the
extraction of relational information. Slides presented at the
International
Hanse Conference on Higher Level Processes in the Brain: Inference and
Comprehension Processes. Delmenhorst Germany. [PDF]
Humphreys, M. S., Dennis, S., Maguire, A. M.,
Reynolds, K., Bolland, S., Hughes, J. D. (2003). What you get out of
memory depends of the question you ask. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition. 29(5), 797-812.[PDF]
Dennis, S. (2003). A comparison of statistical models
for the extraction of lexical information from text corpora. The
Proceedings of the Twenty Fifth Conference of the Cognitive Science
Society.[PDF]
Harrington, M & Dennis, S. (2003). Structural
priming in sentence comprehension. The
Proceedings of the Twenty Fifth Conference of the Cognitive Science
Society.[PDF]
Dennis, S. (2003). An alignment-based account of
serial recall. The
Proceedings of the Twenty Fifth Conference of the Cognitive Science
Society. [PDF]
2002
Harrington, M. & Dennis, S. (2002). Input-driven
language learning. Studies in Second Language
Acquisition. 24. 261-268.[PDF]
Finnegan, S.,
Humphreys, M. S., Dennis, S., & Geffen, G. (2002). ERP
'old/new' effects: memory strength and decisional factor(s).
Neuropsychologia. 40(13), 2288-2304. [PDF]
Dennis, S., Bruza, P. & McArthur, R. (2002). Web
searching: A process-oriented experimental study of three interactive
search paradigms. Journal of the American Society for Information
Science and Technology, 53(2), 120-133.[PDF]
2001
Dennis, S. & Harrington, M. (2001). The
Syntagmatic Paradigmatic Model: An distributed instance-based model of
sentence processing. The Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing
and Neural Networks, 30 November, Tokyo.[PDF]
Dennis, S. & Humphreys, M. S. (2001). A context
noise model of episodic word recognition. Psychological Review. 108(2).
452-477.[PDF]
Dennis, S. (2001). The Syntagmatic Paradigmatic Model
of Sentence Interpretation. Talk presented at University of Colorado
Boulder. [PowerPoint] [PDF]
Dennis, S., Kwantes, P., & Simon, D. (2001). A comparison of stemming algorithms for information retrieval. Report provided to the Defence Science and Technology Organisation of Australia.
< 2000
Kwantes, P., Keys, I., & Dennis, S. (2000). A comparison of the Hyperspace Analogue to Language (HAL) and Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) as information retrieval devices. Report provided to the Defence Science and Technology Organisation of Australia.
Bruza, P., McArthur, R., & Dennis, S. (2000).
Interactive
internet search: Keyword, directory and query reformulation mechanisms
compared. Proceedings of the 23rd annual international ACM SIGIR
conference on Research and development in information retrieval. July
24-28, Athens, ACM Press: New York. 280-287. .[PDF]
Nelson, D., McEvoy, C., & Dennis, S. (2000). What is and what does free association measure? Memory & Cognition. 28(6), 887-899. [PDF]
Dennis, S. (1994). The Integration of Learning into Models of Human Memory. Unpublished doctorial thesis. University of Queensland. [PDF]
Dennis, S. & Wiles, J. (1993). Integrating learning into models of human memory: The Hebbian Recurrent Network. Proceedings of the fifteenth annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 394-399. [PDF]
Comprehensive List
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Teaching
& Research Resources
LSA files
Lexical Semantics Reading Group Schedule
MyUni
Word
Frequency Database - based on the Sydney Morning Herald for 1994.
Connectionist
Models of Cognition - an online text on artificial neural network
models of cognition with embedded simulations.
Math
Memory Models - tutorials on the SAM, TODAM and Matrix models of
episodic memory.
Top Publications by Impact Factor
10.5 Dennis, S. (2004). An unsupervised method for the extraction of propositional information from text. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 101, 5206-5213.
8.83 Dennis, S., Humphreys, M. S., & Wiles, J. (1996). Mathematical constraints on a theory of human memory. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 19 (3), 559-560.
8.83 Humphreys, M. S, Wiles, J. & Dennis, S. (1994). Towards a theory of human memory: Data structures and access processes. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 17(4), 655-666.
8.83 Humphreys, M. S, Wiles, J. & Dennis, S. (1994). Beyond the Tower of Babel in Human Memory Research: The validity and utility of specification. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 17(4).
8.83 Humphreys, M. S, & Dennis, S. (1994) Going from task descriptions to memory structures. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 17(3):483.
7.880 Steyvers, M., Griffiths, T. L. & Dennis, S. (in press). Probabilistic Inference in Human Semantic Memory. Trends in Cognitive Sceinces.
7.42 Dennis, S. & Humphreys, M. S. (2001). A context noise model of episodic word recognition. Psychological Review. 108(2). 452-477.
3.668 Finnegan, S., Humphreys, M. S., Dennis, S., & Geffen, G. (2002). ERP 'old/new' effects: memory strength and decisional factor(s). Neuropsychologia. 40(13), 2288-2304.
2.670 Dennis, S. (2005). A memory-based theory of verbal cognition. Cognitive Science. 29(2), 145-193.
2.086 Dennis, S., Bruza, P. & McArthur, R. (2002). Web searching: A process-oriented experimental study of three interactive search paradigms. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 53(2), 120-133.
2.015 Humphreys, M. S., Dennis, S., Maguire, A. M., Reynolds, K., Bolland, S., Hughes, J. D. (2003). What you get out of memory depends of the question you ask. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition. 29(5), 797-812.
1.937 Nelson, D., McEvoy, C., & Dennis, S. (2000). What is and what does free association measure? Memory & Cognition, 28(6), 887-899.
Grants and Contracts
Present
Dennis, S. (2006). Senior Researcher Grant. Defence Science and Technology Organization.
Dennis, S., Humphreys, M. & Smith, A. (2006). Computational models standing offer. Defence Research and Development Canada.
Dennis, S. & Butavicius, M. (2006). The Textual Entailment Challenge. Defence Science and Technology Organization.
Dennis, S., Ewing, G., Webb, M., Porter, C., Turley, C. & Scholz, J. (2006). The Language of Command. Defence Science and Technology Organization.
Dennis, S. (2006). Syntagmatic Paradigmatic Foundational Research Grant. Defense Science and Technology Organization.
2005
Lee, M. & Dennis, S. (2005). Human decision-making under a scenario known as secretary problem. Defense Science and Technology Organization.
O'Brien, G., O'Carroll, D., Dennis, S., Brooks, M., Koblar, S., & Abbott, D. (2005). Computational Neurosciences Cluster. University of Adelaide.
Dennis, S., Butavicius, M. & Pincomb, B. (2005). Assessing the variability of document similarity judgments. Defense Science and Technology Organization.
Dennis, S., Humphreys, M. S., Boland, S. W., Savvas, S., & Loft, S. D. (2005). Human memory models for operator simulation. Report compiled for Defence Research and Development Canada. [PDF]
2004
Dennis, S. (2004). The role of item features in recognition memory. Research establishment grant. University of Adelaide.
2002
Landauer,T. Kintsch, W., & Dennis, S (2002). Research on and with Novel Educational Technologies
for Comprehension, University of Colorado . Institute of Educational Sciences.
2001
Dennis, S. (2001).
Website Usability Study: Usability improvement benchmarking,
Queensland University of Technology.
Dennis, S., Kwantes, P., Lee, M., Mewhort, D. J.K.
& Nelson, D. (2001). Adding Content to models of Human Memory,
Australian Research Council Large Grant.
2000
Dennis, S. (2000). Stemming Algorithms for
Information Retrieval and Question/Answer Systems, Defense Science and
Technology Organization. [PDF]
Harrington, M. & Dennis, S. (2000).
Instance-based sentence processing, Australian Research Council Small
Grant.
Dennis, S. (2000). Website Usability Study: Prototype
Usability, Queensland University of Technology.
Dennis, S. (2000). Website Usability Study:
Information Architecture and
Site Usability, Queensland University of Technology.
Dennis, S., Kwantes, P., Lee, M., Mewhort, D. J.K.
& Nelson, D. (2000). Adding Content to models of Human Memory,
University of Queensland Discretionary and Australian Research Council
Small Grant.
1999
Dennis, S. (1999). Development of Software for the
Semantic Analysis of Text. Defense Science Technology Organization. [PDF]
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