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Dr Barry Devereux
Senior Research Associate
| E-mail address: | barry@csl.psychol.cam.ac.uk |
| Telephone: | +44 (0)1223 766 454 |
| Fax: | +44 (0)1223 766 452 |
| Address: | Centre for Speech, Language and the Brain Department of Experimental Psychology University of Cambridge Downing Street Cambridge CB2 3EB UK |
Research Interests
In 2007 I completed my Ph.D. at University College Dublin, which was on the topic of conceptual combination and the interpretation of noun-noun compounds. My research interests also include related issues in cognitive psychology and computational linguistics, such as semantic representation and semantic similarity.
At the CSLB, I am working on projects examining lexical processing and semantic representation, and in particular investigating differences in the structure of conceptual knowledge across domains (e.g. living things and artifacts) and the semantic representation of nouns and verbs.
Publications
Maguire, P., Devereux, B, Costello, F. and Cater, A. (2007) A reanalysis of the CARIN theory of conceptual combination. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33(4):811-821.
Devereux, B. and Costello, F. J. (2007) Learning to interpret novel noun-noun compounds: Evidence from a category learning experiment. Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Acquisition, : 89--96.
Devereux, B., Maguire, P., Cater, A., & Costello, F. (2006) An analysis of the CARIN model of conceptual combination. In Ron Sun (Ed.) Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, Canada. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, pp. 1223–1227.
Devereux, B., & Costello, F. J. (2006) Modelling the interpretation and interpretation ease of noun-noun compounds using a relation space approach to compound meaning. In Ron Sun (Ed.) Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, Canada. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, pp. 184–189.
Devereux, B. & Costello, F. J. (2005) Propane stoves and gas lamps: how the concept hierarchy influences the interpretation of noun-noun compounds. In Bruno G. Bara, Lawrence W. Barsalou, and Monica Bucciarelli (Eds.) Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Stresa, Italy. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, pp. 589–594.
Devereux, B. & Costello, F. J. (2005) Representing and Modelling the meaning of noun-noun compounds. In K. Opwis and I.-K. Penner (Eds.) Proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference of the German Cognitive Science Society. Basel, Switzerland. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, pp. 33–38.
Devereux, B. and Costello, F. J. (2005) Investigating the relations used in conceptual combination. Artificial Intelligence Review, 24(3-4):489-515.
Devereux, B. & Costello, F. J. (2004) Learning relations between concepts: classification and conceptual combination. In K. Forbus, D. Gentner, T. Regier (Eds.) Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Chicago, IL. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Devereux, B. & Costello, F. J. (2004) Investigating the relations used in conceptual combination. In L. McGinty & B. Crean (Eds.), Proceedings of the 15th Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive ScienceConference. Mayo, Ireland. pp. 19–28.
Devereux, B. & Costello, F. J. (2003) Assessing the taxonomic approach to noun-noun compounds. In F. Schmahofer, R.M. Young, G. Katz (Eds.) Proceedings of the European Cognitive Science Conference 2003. Osnabruck, Germany. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, pp. 380.