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Francis Mollica
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21ranked-venue papers
7as first author
12since 2021 · last 2025
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 21 · 7 first-author · 12 since 2021Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 21 · 7 first-author · 12 since 2021
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Perceptual Discriminability Drives Overinformative Reference, But Colour Information is Special
Merrick Giles, Paula Rubio-Fernández, Francis Mollica |
CogSci | 3 |
| 2025 | Usage frequency predicts lexicalization across languages
Temuulen Khishigsuren, Francis Mollica, Ekaterina Vylomova, Charles Kemp |
CogSci | 2 |
| 2025 | Narrative Communication as a Learning Tool for Resolving Exploration-Exploitation Dilemmas
Isobel Moore, Francis Mollica, Yoshihisa Kashima |
CogSci | 2 |
| 2025 | Probing for experience-driven critical period effects in a large language model
Dyana Muller, Koquiun Li Lin, Charles Kemp, Francis Mollica |
CogSci | 4 |
| 2024 | Even Laypeople Use Legalese
Eric Martinez, Francis Mollica, Edward Gibson |
CogSci | 2 |
| 2024 | A note on complexity in efficient communication analyses of semantic typology
Francis Mollica |
CogSci | 1 |
| 2024 | What can L1 speakers tell us about killing hope? A Novel Behavioral Measure for Identifying Collocations
Sydelle de Souza, Francis Mollica, Jennifer Culbertson |
CogSci | 2 |
| 2024 | Typological Prevalence Hypothesis: The Case of Kinship
Jules Torgue, Rosalind Owen, Francis Mollica |
CogSci | 3 |
| 2023 | What can MINERVA2 tell us about 'killing hope'? Investigating L2 Collocational Processing with a Memory Model
Sydelle de Souza, Ivan Vegner, Leonidas A. A. Doumas, Francis Mollica |
CogSci | 4 |
| 2023 | A Colorful Formalization of the Typological Prevalence Hypothesis
Jules Torgue, Francis Mollica, Matthew Spike |
CogSci | 2 |
| 2022 | So much for plain language: An analysis of the accessibility of United States federal laws (1951-2009)
Eric Martinez, Francis Mollica, Edward Gibson |
CogSci | 2 |
| 2021 | What did I sign? A study of the impenetrability of legalese in contracts
Eric Martinez, Francis Mollica, Anita Podrug, Edward Gibson |
CogSci | 2 |
| 2020 | Grammatical marking and the tradeoff between code length and informativeness
Francis Mollica, Geoff Bacon, Yang Xu 0023, Terry Regier, Charles Kemp |
CogSci | 1 |
| 2020 | An efficient communication analysis of morpho-syntactic grammatical features
Francis Mollica, Charles Kemp |
CogSci | 1 |
| 2018 | Adults use gradient similarity information in compositional rules
Lauren Oey, Francis Mollica, Steve Piantadosi |
CogSci | 2 |
| 2018 | A context constructivist account of contextual diversity
Shaorong Yan, Francis Mollica, Michael K. Tanenhaus |
CogSci | 2 |
| 2017 | An incremental information-theoretic buffer supports sentence processing
Francis Mollica, Steve Piantadosi |
CogSci | 1 |
| 2017 | A Rational Constructivist Account of the Characteristic-to-Defining Shift
Francis Mollica, Shirlene Wade, Steve Piantadosi |
CogSci | 1 |
| 2016 | What Determines Human Certainty?
Louis Marti, Steve Piantadosi, Francis Mollica, Celeste Kidd |
CogSci | 3 |
| 2015 | Towards semantically rich and recursive word learning models
Francis Mollica, Steve Piantadosi |
CogSci | 1 |
| 2015 | The perceptual foundation of linguistic context
Francis Mollica, Steve Piantadosi, Michael K. Tanenhaus |
CogSci | 1 |