Publications (peer-reviewed)

Scholman, M.C.J., Marchal, M., & Demberg, V. (2024). Connective comprehension in adults: The influence of lexical transparency, frequency, and individual differences. Discourse Processes. doi: 10.1080/0163853X.2024.2325262. [paper] [data and code]

Marchal, M., Scholman, M.C.J., & Demberg, V. (2023). How statistical correlations influence discourse- level processing: Clause type as a cue for discourse relations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition. doi: 10.1037/xlm0001270 [paper] [data and code]

Marchal, M., Scholman, M.C.J., & Demberg, V. (2022). The effect of domain knowledge on discourse relation inferences: Relation marking and interpretation strategies. Dialogue & Discourse, 13(2), 49-78. [paper] [data and code]

Marchal, M., Scholman, M.C.J., & Yung, F. & Demberg, V. (2022). Establishing annotation quality in multi-label annotations. Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 3659-3668. [paper] [data and code]

Marchal, M., Scholman, M.C.J., & Demberg, V. (2021). Semi-automatic discourse annotation in a low-resource language: Developing a connective lexicon for Nigerian Pidgin. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse (CODI), 84-94. [paper] [data and code]

Presentations

Marchal, M. (2024). Non-lexical signals of discourse coherence: The role of clause structure. Guest lecture at RMA course ’Discourse, Cognition and Communication’, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, 14 February.

Marchal, M. (2024). Individual differences in connective comprehension: The effect of linguistic experience and general reasoning skills. Guest lecture at course ’Individual Differences in Language Processing’, Saarland University, Germany, 30 January.

Marchal, M. (2023). Beyond connectives: (Extra-)linguistic cues for inferring discourse relations. Invited talk at Meaning and Grammar Research Group, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 7 November.

Marchal, M., Scholman, M.C.J., Demberg, V. (2023). The effect of domain knowledge on discourse relation inferences: Relation marking and interpretation strategies. Poster at SigDial, Prague, Czech Republic, 11-15 September.

Marchal, M., Psathas, D., & Bartman, R. (2023). Integrated testing of language skills: Opportunities and challenges for central examination. Talk at Cito CTE, Arnhem, the Netherlands, 4 July.

Marchal, M., Scholman, M.C.J., Sanders, T.J.M., & Demberg, V. (2023). What processing instructions do connectives provide? Disentangling relation and content prediction. Poster at LingCologne ‘Prediction in Language’, Cologne, Germany, 16-17 June.

Marchal, M., Scholman, M.C.J., & Demberg, V. (2023). Connectives as processing instructions across languages. Talk at DGFS workshop Signalling discourse relations: Exploring (non-)connective cues’, Cologne, Germany, 8-10 March.

Marchal, M. (2023). Non-lexical signals of discourse coherence: The role of clause structure. Guest lecture at RMA course ‘Discourse, Cognition and Communication’, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, 22 February.

Marchal, M., Scholman, M.C.J., & Demberg, V. (2022). How statistical correlations influence discourse-level processing: Clause type as a cue for discourse relations. Talk at DisCorX, Bern, Switzerland, 16-17 November.

Marchal, M. (2022). Signals for text coherence: From sentence structure to text structure. Guest lecture at BA course ‘Discourse analysis and discourse processing’, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, 23 December.

Marchal, M., Scholman, M.C.J., Yung. F., & Demberg, V. (2022). Establishing annotation quality in multi-label annotations. Poster at COLING, Gyeongju, Korea, 12-17 October.

Marchal, M., Scholman, M.C.J., & Demberg, V. (2022). Clause structure as an alternative cue for discourse relations. Talk at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, online. 19-21 July.

Scholman, M.C.J., Marchal, M., & Demberg, V. (2022). The influence of individual differences and connective features on connective comprehension. Talk at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, online, 19-21 July.

Marchal, M. (2022). Inferring implicit discourse relations: Genre and domain knowledge. Guest lecture at RMA course ‘Discourse, Cognition & Communication’, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, 2 March.

Marchal, M., Scholman, M.C.J., & Demberg, V. (2021). Semi-automatic discourse annotation in a low-resource language: Developing a connective lexicon for Nigerian Pidgin. Talk at CODI, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (online), 10-11 November.

Marchal, M., Mak, W. M. & Sanders, T.J.M (2021). Genre-based expectations for coherence rela- tions. Talk at SLE workshop ‘Continuative and contrastive discourse relations across discourse domains‘, 30 August – 3 September.

Marchal, M., Scholman, M.C.J.& Demberg, V. (2021). The effect of domain knowledge on constructing discourse relation inferences. Poster at SFB 1102 PhD day, 25 June.