Forthcoming Books

R. Bod, De Vergeten Wetenschappen: Een Geschiedenis van de Humaniora (“The Forgotten Sciences: A History of the Humanities”), Prometheus, 2010.

R. Bod, J. Maat and T. Weststeijn (eds.), The Making of the Humanities – Vol.I: The Humanities in Early Modern Europe, AUP, 2010.

R. Bod. Unifying Cognition: The Unsupervised Mind, 2011.


My Publications in Linguistics and Computer Science

Books:

R. Bod and D. Cochran (eds.), 2007. Proceedings ESSLLI workshop "Exemplar-Based Models of Language Acquisition and Use". ESSLLI 2007.

R. Bod, J. Hay and S. Jannedy (eds.), 2003. Probabilistic Linguistics. The MIT Press.

R. Bod, R. Scha and K. Sima'an (eds.), 2003. Data-Oriented Parsing. CSLI Publications, University of Chicago Press. (ToC)

R. Bod, 1998. Beyond Grammar: An Experience-Based Theory of Language CSLI Publications / Cambridge University Press. 186 pp.

Journal Articles:

R. Bod, 2009. From Exemplar to Grammar: A Probabilistic Analogy-based Model of Language Learning. Cognitive Science, Vol. 33(4), In press.

G. Borensztajn, W. Zuidema and R. Bod, 2009. Children’s Grammars Grow More Abstract with Age. Topics in Cognitive Science, 1, 175-188.

R. Bod, 2009. Constructions at Work or at Rest? Cognitive Linguistics. Volume 20, Issue 1, Pages 129–134.

G. Borensztajn, J. Zuidema and R. Bod, 2008. Taalverwerving: De Wetenschap van de Kleine Wetenschapper. In: Kunst en Wetenschap, 17(4).

R. Bod, 2006. Exemplar-Based Syntax: How to Get Productivity from Examples. The Linguistic Review 23, Special Issue on Exemplar-Based Models in Linguistics.

R. Bod, H. Fitz and W. Zuidema, 2006. On the Structural Ambiguity in Natural Language that the Neural Architecture Cannot Deal With. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29(1).

R. Bod, 2003. Do All Fragments Count? Natural Language Engineering, 9(4), 307-323.

R. Bod and R. Kaplan, to appear. A Data-Oriented Parsing Model for Lexical- Functional Grammar. submitted for publication, comments are wellcome.

R. Bod, 2002. A Unified Model of Structural Organization in Language and Music. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 17(2002): 289-308.

R. Bod, 2002. Memory-Based Models of Melodic Analysis: Challenging the Gestalt Principles. Journal of New Music Research, 31(1): 27-37.

R. Bod, 2000. Context-Sensitive Dialogue Processing with the DOP model. Natural Language Engineering 5(4): 309-323.

R. Scha, R. Bod, and K. Sima'an, 1999. Memory-Based Syntactic Analysis. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence. 11(3): 409-440. Special Issue on Memory-Based Language Processing.

Chapters in Books:

R. Bod, 2010. Probabilistic Linguistics. Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis, edited by Bernd Heine and Heiko Narrog (Oxford University Press).

R. Bod, 2008. The Data-Oriented Parsing Approach: Theory and Application. In J. Fulcher and L. Jain (eds.), Computational Intelligence: A Compendium, Springer, 307-342.

R. Bod, 2003. Introduction to Elementary Probability Theory and Formal Stochastic Language Theory. In Bod R., Hay, J. and Jannedy S., Probabilistic Linguistics, The MIT Press. 11- 39.

R. Bod and R. Scha, 2003. A DOP Model for Phrase-Structure Trees. In R. Bod et al. (2003), Data-Oriented Parsing, CSLI Publications. 13-24.

R. Bod and R. Kaplan, 2003. A DOP Model for Lexical-Functional Grammar. In R. Bod et al. (2003), Data-Oriented Parsing, CSLI Publications, 211-233.

R. Bod, 2003. Extracting Stochastic Grammars from Treebanks. In A. Abeille (ed.) Treebanks, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston.

R. Bod and R. Scha, 1997. Data-Oriented Language Processing. In S. Young and G. Bloothooft (eds.) Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston. 137-173.

R. Bod, 1996. Monte Carlo Parsing. In H. Bunt and M. Tomita (eds.) Recent Advances in Parsing Technology, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston. 255- 280.

R. Bod, 1992. Applying Monte Carlo Techniques to Data-Oriented Parsing. In W. Sijtsma and O. Zweekhorst (eds.) Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 1992, CLIN, The Netherlands. 1-13.

R. Bod, 1991. A Computational Model of Language Performance: Data Oriented Parsing. In J. van Eijck and W. Meyer Viol (eds.) Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 1991, CLIN, The Netherlands. 26- 39.

N. Smith, M. Beers, R. Bod, R. Bolognesi and F. van der Leeuw, 1991. Lenition in a Sardinian dialect. In P. Bertinetto, M. Kenstowicz and M. Loporcaro (eds.) Certamen Phonologicum II, Rosenberg & Sellier, Turin. 309-328.

Papers in Conference Proceedings:

F. Sangati, W. Zuidema and R. Bod, 2010. Efficiently extract recurring tree fragments from large treebanks. To appear in proceedings LREC10

G. Borensztajn, W. Zuidema and R. Bod, 2009, The hierarchical prediction network: towards a neural theory of grammar acquisition. Proceeding CogSci 2009

F. Sangati, W. Zuidema and R. Bod, 2009. A generative re-ranking model for dependency parsing. Proceedings IWPT 09.

R. Bod, G. Borensztajn and E. Morgan, 2009. Empiricist Solutions to Nativist Puzzles, Proceedings CogSci 2009.

G. Borensztajn, J. Zuidema and R. Bod, 2008. Children's grammars grow more abstract with age - Evidence from an automatic procedure for identifying the productive units of language. Proceedings CogSci 2008. Best Paper Award. See Persbericht.

R. Bod et al. 2008. Rules and Exemplars in Language Acquisition. Proceedings CogSci 2008, Washington D.C.

R. Bod, 2007. Is the End of Supervised Parsing in Sight? Proceedings ACL 2007, Prague, 400-407.

R. Bod, 2007. A Linguistic Investigation into U-DOP. Proceedings ACL 2007 Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Acquisition, Prague, 1-8.

R. Bod, 2007. Unsupervised Syntax-Based Machine Translation: The Contribution of Discontiguous Phrases. Proceedings MT Summit 2007, Copenhagen, 51-57.

R. Bod and D. Cochran, 2007. Introduction to Exemplar-Based Models. Proceedings ESSLLI workshop "Exemplar-Based Models of Language Acquisition and Use".

R. Bod, 2007. Is there a single mechanism for learning language and music? Conference Language and Music as Cognitive Systems. Cambridge.

R. Bod, 2007. From Exemplar to Grammar. Invited Paper at Formal Grammar Conference, Dublin. Preprint.

R. Bod, 2006. An All-Subtrees Approach to Unsupervised Parsing. Proceedings ACL-COLING 2006, Sydney.

R. Bod, 2006. Unsupervised Parsing with U-DOP. Proceedings CoNLL 2006, New York.

R. Bod, 2003. An Efficient Implementation of a New DOP Model. Proceedings EACL'03, Budapest, Hungary.

R. Bod, 2001. What is the Minimal Set of Fragments that Achieves Maximal Parse Accuracy?. Proceedings ACL-2001, Toulouse, France.

R. Bod, 2001. Sentence Memory: Storage vs. Computation of Frequent Sentences. Abstract in Proceedings CUNY-2001, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

R. Bod, 2000. Parsing with the Shortest Derivation. Proceedings COLING-2000, Saarbruecken, Germany. (with a minor correction!)

R. Bod, 2000. An Improved Parser for Data-Oriented Lexical- Functional Analysis. Proceedings ACL-2000, Hong Kong, China.

R. Bod, 2000. The Storage and Computation of Frequent Sentences. Architectures and Mechanism of Language Processing Conference (AMLAP-2000), Leiden, The Netherlands. (slides only)

R. Bod, 2000. Combining Semantic and Syntactic Structure for Language Modeling. Proceedings ICSLP-2000, Beijing, China.

R. Bod, 2000. An Empirical Evaluation of LFG-DOP. Proceedings COLING- 2000, Saarbruecken, Germany.

R. Bod, 2000. What are the Structural Units of Language Processing? Handbook LSA-2000, Chicago, IL.

R. Bod, 1999. Extracting Stochastic Grammars from Treebanks. Proceedings ATALA Workshop on Treebanks, Paris, France.

R. Bod and R. Scha, 1999. What are the Productive Units of Language Processing?. Proceedings International Conference on Cognitive Science, Tokyo, Japan.

R. Bod and R. Kaplan, 1998. A Probabilistic Corpus-Driven Model for Lexical Functional Analysis. Proceedings COLING-ACL-98, Montreal, Canada.

R. Bod, 1998. Spoken Dialogue Interpretation with the DOP Model. Proceedings COLING-ACL-98, Montreal, Canada.

R. Bod and R. Kaplan, 1998. Grammaticality, Robustness, and Specificity in a Probabilistic Approach to Lexical Functional Analysis. Proceedings LFG-1998, Brisbane, Australia.

R. Bod, R. Bonnema and R. Scha, 1997. Data-Oriented Semantic Interpretation. Proceedings 2nd Int. Workshop on Computational Semantics, Tilburg, The Netherlands. (also partly in: Bonnema et al., 1997. "A DOP Model for Semantic Interpretation". Proceedings ACL-EACL'97, Madrid, Spain)

R. Bod, 1996. Two Questions about Data-Oriented Parsing. Proceedings Fourth Workshop on Very Large Corpora, COLING'96, Copenhagen, Denmark.

R. Bod, R. Bonnema and R. Scha, 1996. A Data-Oriented Approach to Semantic Interpretation. Proceedings Workshop on Corpus-Oriented Semantic Analysis, ECAI-96, Budapest, Hungary.

R. Bod, 1995. The Problem of Computing the Most Probable Tree in Data-Oriented Parsing and Stochastic Tree Grammars. Proceedings European Chapter of the ACL'95, Dublin, Ireland.

K. Sima'an, R. Bod, R. Scha and S. Krauwer, 1994. Efficient Disambiguation by means of Stochastic Tree Substitution Grammars. Proceedings New Methods in Language Processing, UMIST, Manchester, UK.

R. Bod and R. Scha, 1994. Prediction and Disambiguation by means of Data-Oriented Parsing. Proceedings Twente Workshop on Language Technology (TWLT8), Enschede, The Netherlands.

M. van den Berg, R. Bod and R. Scha, 1994. A Corpus-Based Approach to Semantic Interpretation. Proceedings Ninth Amsterdam Colloquium, ILLC, The Netherlands.

R. Bod, 1993. Using an Annotated Language Corpus as a Virtual Stochastic Grammar. Proceedings AAAI'93, Washington D.C.

R. Bod, 1993. Monte Carlo Parsing. Proceedings 3rd International Workshop on Parsing Technologies, Tilburg/Durbuy, The Netherlands/Belgium.

R. Bod, 1993. Data Oriented Parsing as a General Framework for Stochastic Language Processing. Proceedings Twente Workshop on Language Technology (TWLT6), Twente, The Netherlands.

R. Bod, 1993. Combining Structural and Statistical Information from an Annotated Corpus. Proceedings European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML'93), Vienna, Austria.

R. Bod, 1993. Using an Annotated Corpus as a Stochastic Grammar. Proceedings European Chapter of the ACL'93, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

R. Bod, 1992. A Computational Model of Language Performance: Data Oriented Parsing. Proceedings COLING'92, Nantes, France.

Reports, Deliverables and Other Publications:

R. Bod and R. Scha, 1996. Data-Oriented Language Processing: An Overview. ILLC Research Report LP-96-13, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 34 pp.

R. Bod, 1996. An Annotation Convention for OVIS Dialogues, NWO Deliverable, Priority Programme Language and Speech Technology, The Hague. 29 pp.

R. Bod, 1996. Efficient Algorithms for Parsing the DOP Model? A Reply to Joshua Goodman, Computational Linguistics Archive: cmp-lg/9605031.

R. Bod, 1995. Enriching Linguistics with Statistics: Performance Models of Natural Language, Academische Pers, The Netherlands. 143 pp. (Ph.D. thesis)

R. Bod, S. Krauwer and K. Sima'an, 1994. CLASK: Combining Linguistic and Statistical Knowledge. ESF (European Science Foundation) Final Report, Research Institute for Language and Speech, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. 64 pp.

R. Bod and R. Scha, 1994. A Data-Oriented Approach to Natural Language Learning. Machine Learning of Natural Language and Speech, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

R. Bod, 1992. Mathematical Properties of the Data-Oriented Parsing Model. Third Meeting of Mathematics of Language, Austin, Texas.


My Publications in Music and Perception

R. Bod, 2008. De Unificatie van Menselijke Cognitie. ANTW (Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte), 100(2), 129-137.

R. Bod, 2008. Het Wetenschappelijk Werk als Kunstwerk. In: BLIND!, 11 januari 2008. (uitgesproken bij Opening Academisch-Cultureel Centrum SPUI25)

R. Bod, 2007. Is there a single mechanism for learning language and music? Conference Language and Music as Cognitive Systems. Cambridge.

R. Bod, 2007. The Data-Oriented Parsing Approach: Theory and Application. In J. Fulcher and L. Jain (eds.), Handbook of Computational Intelligence, Springer, 36pp.

R. Bod, 2005. Towards Unifying Perception and Cognition. Prepublication.

A. Honingh and R. Bod, 2005. Convexity and the Well-formedness of Musical Objects. Journal of New Music Research, 34(3), 393-203.

A. Honingh and R. Bod, 2004. The Notion of Convexity in Music. Proceedings UCM 2003, Caserta.

R. Schaefer, J. Murre and R. Bod, 2004. Limits to Universality in Segmentation of Simple Melodies. Proceedings ICMPC8, Evanston, IL.

M. van Zaanen, R. Bod and H. Honing, 2003. A Memory-Based Approach to Meter Induction. Proceedings ESCOM5, Hanover, Germany.

R. Bod, 2002. A Unified Model of Structural Organization in Language and Music. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 17(2002): 289-308.

R. Bod, 2002. Memory-Based Models of Melodic Analysis: Challenging the Gestalt Principles. Journal of New Music Research, 31(1): 27-37.

R. Bod, 2002. Combining Likelihood and Simplicity in Language and Music. Proceedings CogSci-2002 Fairfax, Virginia

R. Bod, 2002. A General Parsing Model for Language and Music. Proceedings ICMAI'2002 Edinburgh, UK

R. Bod, 2001. Challenging the Gestalt Principles in Music. Proceedings International Computer Music Conference (ICMC-2001), Havana, Cuba, extended version.

R. Bod, 2001. Using Natural Language Processing Techniques for Musical Parsing. Proceedings ACH/ALLC'2001, New York, NY

R. Bod, 2001. Probabilistic Grammars for Music Proceedings BNAIC'2001 Amsterdam

R. Bod, 2001. Stochastic Models of Melodic Analysis: Challenging the Gestalt Principles Proceedings 14th Meeting of the FWO Research Society on Foundations of Systematic Musicology Ghent, Belgium

R. Bod and R. Scha, 1993. Deriving Optimal Network Diagrams by means of Structural Information Theory. In R. Bod et al. (eds.), HCI from a Discourse Perspective, ESPRIT. 48- 60.

R. Bod, M. Dastani, H. Prust, R. Scha and H. Zeevat (eds.), 1993. HCI from a Discourse Perspective, ESPRIT (Basic Research Action P6296), 92 pp.

R. Bod, M. Dastani and R. Scha, 1993. Solving Proportional Analogies using Structural Information Theory. Preprints European Workshop on Cased-based Reasoning, Kaiserslautern, Germany.


My Publications on Scientific Reasoning and Philosophy (and other)

R. Bod, 2008. De Unificatie van Menselijke Cognitie. ANTW (Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte), 100(2), 129-137.

R. Bod, 2008. Het Wetenschappelijk Werk als Kunstwerk. In: BLIND!, 11 januari 2008. (uitgesproken bij Opening Academisch-Cultureel Centrum SPUI25)

R. Bod, 2007. Het Wetenschappelijk Werk als Kunstwerk. Opening Academisch-Cultureel Centrum SPUI25. (in Dutch)

R. Bod, 2007. Getting Rid of Derivational Redundancy or How to Solve Kuhn's Problem. Minds and Machines, 17(1), 47-66.

R. Bod, 2007. Column in NRC Handelsblad, 7 June 2007, over “Universiteit Legt Onderzoeksprogramma in Handen van Achttienjarigen”. (in Dutch)

R. Bod, 2006. Towards a General Model of Applying Science. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 20(1), 5-25. Symposium on Applying Science.

R. Bod, M. Boon and M. Boumans, 2006. Introduction to the Symposium on Applying Science. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 20(1), 2-4.

R. Bod, 2005. Towards Unifying Perception and Cognition. Prepublication.

R. Bod, 2005. Modeling Scientific Problem Solving by DOP. Proceedings CogSci.05, Stresa, Italy.

R. Bod, 2004. Explaining New Phenomena in Terms of Previous Phenomena. Prepublication.

R. Bod, 2004. Exemplar-Based Explanation. Proceedings Computation and Philosophy (ECAP.04), Pavia, Italy.

R. Bod, 2003. Particularism: A Maximalist View on Theory. Abstract of a paper for LMPS.03.

R. Bod, J. Hay and S. Jannedy, 2003. Is There Evidence for a Probabilistic Language Faculty? Abstract of a paper for LMPS.03.

R. Bod, 2002. Minimalism vs. Maximalism in the Natural and Social Sciences. Abstract of talk presented at CENSS'2002.

S. Battaglia and R. Bod, 1994. Amsterdam. Gruppo Editoriale Bramante, Milan. 224 pp.

R. Scha and R. Bod, 1993. Computational Aesthetics. Informatie en Informatiebeleid, 11(1), 54-63.


My Publications on Astronomy (in my very early youth)

R. Bod, 1981. Temperature Determinations of Stars. Reports of the IAYC'81 Summerschool, Ismailia, Egypt.

F. Clette and R. Bod, 1981. The Solar Constant. Reports of the IAYC'81 Summerschool, Ismailia, Egypt.

R. Bod, 1980. Distance Determination of Galactic Clusters. IWAA Summerschool Report, Havelte, The Netherlands.

 

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