ST&D Student Awards and Past Winners

The Outstanding Student Paper Award

The Outstanding Student Paper Award (OSPA) recognizes quality in predissertation work that is predominantly that of a graduate student. 

1997 Andreas Schraam 
Aspect and causal inferences: Towards the linguistic component in a process model of inference generation in text comprehension
1998 Ken Samuel
Discourse learning: Dialogue act tagging with transformation-based learning
1999 Michelle L. Gregory
Effects of informativeness on durational shortening in conversation
2000 Rob Stanfield 
The effect of verbal context on picture recognition: Initial support for perceptual symbol theory
2000 Johanna Kaakinen
Perspective effects on fixation times and memory for text
2001 Tobias Richter
Epistomological evaluations in comprehension of expository text
2002 Heather Hite Mitchell
The effects of context on the appreciation and comprehension of jokes
2003 Carol Madden
All words require lexical disambiguation
2004 David Havas
An embodiment basis for emotional language comprehension
2005 Johann Ari Larusson
Using discourse to measure the representational work of pilots during an approach briefing
2006 Fabrice Cauchard
Do visual signals extend the vertical visual span in processing of expository text? A gaze-contingent moving window study
2007
Not Awarded
2008 Nick Duran
Automated detection of coordination between child and caregivers using natural language processing
2009 Mike Mensink
Evil genuises: Inference from mismatches between trait descriptions and reader preferences
2010 Kris Liu
Hedging Memory