معرفی
Brian W. Dillon is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, directing the Computational Sentence Processing Lab. He specializes in psycholinguistics, focusing on real-time sentence processing, working memory, and cross-linguistic studies. Dillon holds a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland and a B.A. from SUNY Buffalo.
Research: Investigates how cognitive resources like attention and memory influence language comprehension, with studies on languages such as English, Mandarin, Turkish, and Irish. Key projects include syntactic ambiguity resolution, neural network modeling of syntactic processing, and working memory dynamics in sentence interpretation.
Recent Work: Published on eye-tracking methods, language model surprisal and garden path effects, and binding theory. Collaborates on NSF-funded projects exploring syntactic dependency formation and interference in agreement processing.
Awards: Received the Distinguished Paper Award at CoNLL 2022 for contributions to syntactic surprisal modeling.
Labs & Teams: Leads the Computational Sentence Processing Lab, focusing on experimental and computational methods. Current team includes PhD students like Özge Bakay and Satoru Ozaki, with alumni in academic and industry roles.
