Employment

Assistant Teaching Professor (2022-present)
University of California, San Diego: Jointly appointed in Cognitive Science and Computational Social Science

Education

Graduate student (2016-2022)
University of California, San Diego: Department of Cognitive Science
Advisor: Benjamin Bergen

B.A. in Cognitive Science (2010-2014)
University of California, Berkeley: Department of Cognitive Science
Thesis advisor: Terry Regier

Research

Pre-prints

Trott, S., Jones, C., Chang, T., Michaelov, J., & Bergen, B. (2022). Do Large Language Models know what humans know?. arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.01515.

Trott, S., Bergen, B. (2022). Contextualized Sensorimotor Norms: multi-dimensional measures of sensorimotor strength for ambiguous English words, in context. [Link to arXiv][Link to dataset]

Journal Publications

Trott, S., & Bergen, B. (2023). Word meaning is both categorical and continuous. Psychological Review. [Link]

Trott, S., Bergen, B., & Wittenberg, E. (2022). Spontaneous, controlled acts of reference between friends and strangers. Language Resources and Evaluation, 1-25.

Ruytenbeek, N., Trott, S., & Bergen, B. (2022). Prosody and speech act interpretation: The case of French indirect requests. Journal of French Language Studies, 1-23.

DeLong, K. A., Trott, S., & Kutas, M. (2022). Offline dominance and zeugmatic similarity normings of variably ambiguous words assessed against a neural language model (BERT). Behavior Research Methods, 1-21.

Trott, S., Reed, S., Kaliblotzky, D., Ferreira, V., & Bergen, B. (2022). The role of prosody in disambiguating English indirect requests. [Link to paper][Data and code for analysis]

Morey, R. D., Kaschak, M. P., Díez-Álamo, A. M., Glenberg, A. M., Zwaan, R. A., Lakens, D., …Trott, S.,…. & Ziv-Crispel, N. (2022). A pre-registered, multi-lab non-replication of the action-sentence compatibility effect (ACE). Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 29(2), 613-626. [Link to paper]

Trott, S., & Bergen, B. (2022). Languages are efficient, but for whom?. Cognition, 225, 105094. [Link to paper][Data and code for analysis]

Trott, S., & Bergen, B. (2020). Why do human languages have homophones? Cognition, 205, 104449. [Link to paper][Link to preprint][Data and code for analysis]

Trott, S., & Bergen, B. (2020). When do comprehenders mentalize for pragmatic inference?. Discourse Processes. [Link to preprint][Data and code for analysis]

Trott, S., & Rossano, F. (2020). The Role of Entitlement in Formatting Preferences Across Requesters and Recipients. Discourse Processes, 1-22. [Link to paper][Data and code for analysis]

Trott, S., & Bergen, B. (2018). Individual Differences in Mentalizing Capacity Predict Indirect Request Comprehension. Discourse Processes. [Link] [Link to experimental materials]

Conference Proceedings

Trott, S., & Bergen, B. (2022). Can a pressure against homophones explain phonological neighborhoods?. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 44, No. 44).

Jones, C. R., Chang, T. A., Coulson, S., Michaelov, J. A., Trott, S., & Bergen, B. (2022). Distrubutional Semantics Still Can’t Account for Affordances. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 44, No. 44).

Trott, S., & Bergen, B. (2021). RAW-C: Relatedness of Ambiguous Words, in Context (A New Lexical Resource for English). ACL-IJCNLP-2021. [Link to paper] [link to dataset and code]

Trott, S., Torrent, T. T., Chang, N., & Schneider, N. (2020). (Re) construing Meaning in NLP. ACL 2020. [Link to paper]

Trott, S., Reed, S., Ferreira, V., & Bergen, B. (2019) Prosodic cues signal the intent of potential indirect requests. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [Link] [Data and code for analysis]

Trott, S., & Bergen, B. (2017, October). A theoretical model of indirect request comprehension. In 2017 AAAI Fall Symposium Series. [Link]

Trott, S., & Rossano, F. (2017, October). Theoretical Concerns for the Integration of Repair. In 2017 AAAI Fall Symposium Series. [Link to download]

Trott, S., Eppe, M., & Feldman, J. (2016). Recognizing intention from natural language: clarification dialog and construction grammar. In Workshop on Communicating Intentions in Human-Robot Interaction. [Link] [Link to project page]

Eppe, M., Trott, S., & Feldman, J. (2016, October). Exploiting deep semantics and compositionality of natural language for Human-Robot-Interaction. In 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (pp. 731-738). IEEE. [Link] [Link to project page]

Trott, S., Appriou, A., Feldman, J., & Janin, A. (2015, September). Natural language understanding and communication for multi-agent systems. In 2015 AAAI Fall Symposium Series. [Link to download] [Link to project page]

Posters

Trott, S., Semenuks, A., Bergen, B. (2019). Sub-morphemic form-meaning systematicity: the impact of onset phones on word concreteness. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Poster presentation. [Link to code] [Link to Jupyter notebook]

Presentations

Trott, S., Bergen, B. (2020) Why do human languages have homophony (and polysemy)? Center for Research in Language (CRL), UC San Diego.

Trott, S., Bergen, B. (2019) Why do homophones exist? Center for Research in Language (CRL), UC San Diego.