Talk on sentence comprehension by JNU alumni

[Pranab Bagartti]

You are cordially invited to the Cognitive Science Colloquium Series talk
to be delivered by *Prof. Shravan Vasishth* from *University of Potsdam*,
Germany.

*Title:*  Twenty years of Retrieval Models in sentence comprehension research
*Day:* Thursday, 23rd of September, 2021
*Time:* 7:00 pm (IST)
*Link:* https://tinyurl.com/IITDCogSciColloquium

*Abstract*
The role of general-purpose information processing constraints on sentence
comprehension has received a great deal of attention in the literature
over the last two or three decades. In this talk, Prof Vasishth will
present a review of the last 20+ years of work on a particular class of
computational models of sentence processing---retrieval models.  He will
discuss both the achievements and limitations of these models, and
summarize what he has learnt about cognition and language through this
line of work.

*About the Speaker*
Prof. Shravan Vasishth  is presently a Professor of Psycholinguistics in
the Department of Linguistics at the University of Potsdam, Germany. Prof
Vasishth was born and brought up in Delhi and is an alumnus of Jawaharlal
Nehru University where he studied Japanese and Linguistics. He completed
his graduate studies in Computer and Information Science and his PhD in
Linguistics from Ohio State University, USA.

For the past several years, Prof Vasisth and his group have been involved
in developing computational models of human sentence comprehension,
focusing on both impaired and unimpaired populations. Prof Vasishth has
authored several books in language comprehension and statistical methods
and has to his credit over a hundred journal publications.

He is a member of the Royal Statistical Society and the International
Society for Bayesian Analysis. He has numerous awards and scholarships to
his name including the Best Teacher Award he received from Charit´e, SFB
1340 Matrix in Vision (Germany) in 2019.