Last updated: Oct, 2023
Please cite as "Sanghee J. Kim" for work published/presented in 2022 and onwards.

My current research focuses on language processing and understanding in humans and machines especially in discourse/dialogue situations. For my dissertation work (supported by NSF DDRI Grant BCS-2214437), I explore the memory encoding and retrieval of discourse structure information in real-time human language comprehension. I use different structures with appositive and restrictive relative clauses and utilize behavioral experiments and computational methods. I work closely with Ming Xiang and Allyson Ettinger.

Understanding human language comprehension/production

  1. When does subordinate discourse structure divide from main discourse structure?
    2. Authors: Sanghee J. Kim & Ming Xiang
    Presentation: 97th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America [scheduled]
  2. What prosody does when morphosyntax is absent: the case of Korean relative clauses
    3. Authors: Jinyoung Jo*, & Juyeon Cho*, Sanghee J. Kim*, & Sun-ah Jun (* = co-first author)
    Presentation: 97th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America [scheduled]
  3. Memory encoding/retrieval is sensitive to discourse status: through the lens of pronoun resolution
    4. Authors: Sanghee J. Kim & Ming Xiang
    Presentation: HSP2023 [abstract] [slides]
    *Honorable Mention for the Gibson/Fedorenko Young Scholar Award
  4. Memory retrieval selectively targets different discourse units
    5. Authors: Sanghee J. Kim & Ming Xiang
    Presentation: HSP2022 [abstract] [slides]
    *Honorable Mention for the Gibson/Fedorenko Young Scholar Award
  5. Discourse status and asymmetric agreement attraction effects
    6. Authors: Sanghee Kim & Ming Xiang
    Presentation: AMLaP2021
  6. Variability in the agreement attraction effect
    7. Authors: Sanghee Kim & Ming Xiang
    Presentation: CUNY2021
  7. Grammatical gender feature as a cue in L2 learners’ reflexive resolution
    8. Authors: Sanghee Kim, Jong-Hyeon Lee, & Jeong-Ah Shin
    Presentation: AMLaP2018
  8. The effect of thematic roles during grammatical encoding in sentence production
    9. Authors: Sanghee Kim & Jeong-Ah Shin
    Paper: Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics, 16(1), 2016, pp. 77-97.

Evaluating linguistic knowledge in Language Models

  1. "No, they did not”: Dialogue response dynamics in pre-trained language models
    2. Authors: Sanghee J. Kim, Lang Yu, & Allyson Ettinger
    Paper: [proceedings] [bib] [code]
    Presentation: COLING2022 [slides]
  2. Evaluating compositionality function on existing models: 'Adjective + Noun' composition
    3. Author: Sanghee Kim
    Manuscript: v1 (June 8, 2020)

Understanding human language representation

  1. Identifying the correlations between the semantics and the phonology of ASL and BSL: A vector space approach
    2. Authors: Aurora Martinez Del Rio*, Casey Ferrara*, Sanghee J. Kim*, Emre Hakgüder & Diane Brentari (* = co-first author)
    Paper: Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 2022, 806471.
    Presentation: LSA2021
  2. Questioning, asserting and making an order without a verb in Korean
    3. Author: Sanghee Kim
    Manuscript: v1 (August 11, 2020)
  3. 'Call-back' speech acts: Getting more than 'again' with Korean particles
    4. Author: Sanghee Kim
    Paper: Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics, 93, 2021, pp. 71-80.
  4. Object honorification agreement in Korean: [HON] as a phi-feature
    5. Author: Sanghee Kim
    Presentation: LSA2020 | ALC13
  5. Allocutive agreement in Korean under cyclic Agree
    6. Author: Sanghee Kim
    Paper: Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 4(54), 2019, pp. 1-15.

Understanding human language acquisition

  1. Is starting early beneficial for the acquisition of English articles in an EFL setting?
    2. Authors: Sanghee Kim & Mi-Jeong Song
    Paper: English Teaching, 75(4), 2020, pp. 3-32.