Satoru Ozaki (ikazos)

My name is Satoru Ozaki (/oꜜzaki satoɾɯ/). I am a third-year PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at UMass Amherst.

Before that, I graduated from the Master of Language Technologies (MLT) program in the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. My advisor was Prof. Eric Nyberg. I also worked extensively with Prof. Lori Levin.

My interests are:

Syntax/semantics: Mismatch in VP Ellipsis (also known as vehicle change), binding in degree constructions
Constraint-based grammars: Inference and learning with MaxEnt grammars
Minimalist Grammars (MGs): Left-corner parsing, comparing MGs with mainstream generative grammar.

curriculum vitæ (last updated: November 2024)

email: sozaki [snabel-a] umass [punkt] edu

News

2024/10: I presented a poster at NELS 55.** My poster is titled ``Conditional wh-questions with VP Ellipsis'' (**poster).
2024/09: My collaborators Jia Ren and Qiuhao Charles Yan presented a poster at SuB 29. Our poster is titled ``Quantificational Determiners vs. Partitive Nouns in Mandarin Chinese''.
2024/06: I gave a talk at SCiL 2024. The talk is titled ``CCG parsing effort and surprisal jointly predict RT but underpredict garden-path effects'' (slides). This is joint work with Aniello De Santo, Tal Linzen and Brian Dillon.
2024/01: I gave a talk at LSA 2024. My talk is titled ``A phonotactic/tonotactic grammar for Tokyo Japanese that clusters by lexical strata does not overfit'' (slides).
2023/07: I was in Tokyo at OsekiLab.
2023/06: I was at the LSA Summer Institute.
2023/06: I was at SCiL 2023.