2026 Roger Levy: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	48	6071	5898	2736	2638	161	12824

Research.com Recognitions

2012 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Roger Levy is affiliated with MIT in the United States and works primarily in the field of Computer Science. Their research spans several subfields, including Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics, and Cultural Studies.

The main topics they have focused on include:

Natural Language Processing Techniques
Topic Modeling
Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
Text Readability and Simplification
Reading and Literacy Development
Speech and Dialogue Systems
Language and Cultural Evolution

Roger Levy has contributed extensively to academic literature, with a notable presence in frequent publication venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Language
Open Mind

Their recent papers demonstrate diverse research interests and include the following works:

"Lossy-Context Surprisal: An Information-Theoretic Model of Memory Effects in Sentence Processing", 2020, published in Cognitive Science
"On the Predictive Power of Neural Language Models for Human Real-Time Comprehension Behavior", 2020, published in arXiv (Cornell University)
"Large-scale evidence for logarithmic effects of word predictability on reading time", 2024, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Dependency locality as an explanatory principle for word order", 2020, published in Language
"Incremental Language Comprehension Difficulty Predicts Activity in the Language Network but Not the Multiple Demand Network", 2021, published in Cerebral Cortex

Frequent collaborators in research with Roger Levy include:

Peng Qian
Richard Futrell
Clara Meister
Tiago Pimentel
Ryan Cotterell

In recognition of their work, Roger Levy was awarded the Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2012.

Best Publications

Expectation-based syntactic comprehension

Roger Levy

2398
Citations
A new approach to cross-modal multimedia retrieval

Nikhil Rasiwasia;Jose Costa Pereira;Emanuele Coviello;Gabriel Doyle

1494
Citations
The effect of word predictability on reading time is logarithmic

Nathaniel J. Smith;Roger Levy

777
Citations
Speakers optimize information density through syntactic reduction

T. F. Jaeger;Roger P. Levy

619
Citations
How Efficiency Shapes Human Language.

Edward Gibson;Richard Futrell;Steven P. Piantadosi;Isabelle Dautriche

497
Citations
On the Role of Correlation and Abstraction in Cross-Modal Multimedia Retrieval

Jose Costa Pereira;Emanuele Coviello;Gabriel Doyle;Nikhil Rasiwasia

479
Citations
Tregex and Tsurgeon: tools for querying and manipulating tree data structures.

Roger Levy;Galen Andrew

454
Citations
Is it Harder to Parse Chinese, or the Chinese Treebank?

Roger Levy;Christopher D. Manning

347
Citations
Eye movement evidence that readers maintain and act on uncertainty about past linguistic input

Roger Levy;Klinton Bicknell;Tim Slattery;Keith Rayner

335
Citations
The Chicken or the Egg? A Probabilistic Analysis of English Binomials

Sarah Bunin Benor;Roger Levy

271
Citations
A Systematic Assessment of Syntactic Generalization in Neural Language Models

Jennifer Hu;Jon Gauthier;Peng Qian;Ethan Wilcox

206
Citations
A Noisy-Channel Model of Human Sentence Comprehension under Uncertain Input

Roger Levy

196
Citations
What do RNN Language Models Learn about Filler-Gap Dependencies?

Ethan Wilcox;Roger Levy;Takashi Morita;Richard Futrell

191
Citations
Pragmatic reasoning through semantic inference

Leon Bergen;Roger Levy;Noah Goodman

175
Citations
Neural language models as psycholinguistic subjects: Representations of syntactic state.

Richard Futrell;Ethan Wilcox;Takashi Morita;Peng Qian

172
Citations
Lossy‐Context Surprisal: An Information‐Theoretic Model of Memory Effects in Sentence Processing

Richard Futrell;Edward Gibson;Roger P. Levy

157
Citations
A noisy-channel model of rational human sentence comprehension under uncertain input

Roger Levy

156
Citations
Integrating surprisal and uncertain-input models in online sentence comprehension: formal techniques and empirical results

Roger Levy

123
Citations
A generative model for semantic role labeling

Cynthia A. Thompson;Roger Levy;Christopher D. Manning

121
Citations
Modeling the effects of memory on human online sentence processing with particle filters

Roger P. Levy;Florencia Reali;Thomas L. Griffiths

115
Citations
Embedded implicatures as pragmatic inferences under compositional lexical uncertainty

Christopher Potts;Daniel Lassiter;Roger Levy;Michael C. Frank

114
Citations
The processing of extraposed structures in English.

Roger Levy;Evelina Fedorenko;Mara Breen;Edward A. Gibson

107
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward Gibson MIT

Evelina Fedorenko MIT

Miguel Ballesteros Oracle (US)

Keith Rayner University of California, San Diego

Christopher D. Manning Stanford University

Noah D. Goodman Stanford University

Joshua B. Tenenbaum MIT

Frank Keller University of Edinburgh

Michael C. Frank Stanford University

Ryan Cotterell ETH Zurich

External Links

Personal website of Roger Levy Google Scholar page

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