Fachgebiet Psycholinguistics

John C. Borges Gamboa

Office: Building 57, Room 423

E-Mail: gamboa[at] rptu.de

Phone: +49(0)-631-205-4138

Fax: +49(0)-631-205-5182

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My research interests revolve around Nominal Compounds: how are they used? How are they processed? Why are they common in the scientific register? When did they become a fixture of academic texts?

 

 

CURRICULUM VITAE

 

EDUCATION

2018 – current
Doctoral student, Faculty of Social Sciences
University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU), Germany

2014 – 2017
Master of Science in Computer Science
University of Kaiserslautern (TUK), Germany

2008 – 2013
Bachelor in Computer Science
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil

 

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT 

10.2021 – current
Doctoral researcher (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter), Psycholinguistics and Language Development
University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU)

09.2014 – 06.2016
Research Assistant, Chair of Real Time Systems
University of Kaiserslautern, Germany

03.2015 – 09.2015
Research Assistant, Psycholinguistics and Language Development
University of Kaiserslautern, Germany

03.2013 – 12.2013
Teaching Assistant, Natural Language Processing Lab
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

02.2012 – 01.2013
Research Assistant, Chair of Real Time Systems
University of Kaiserslautern, Germany

02.2011 – 12.2011
Research Assistant, Computer Graphics Research Group
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

 

PUBLICATIONS 

Fernandez, L. B., Hadley, L. V., Koç, A., Gamboa, J. C., & Allen, S. E. (2024). Is there a cost when predictions are not met? A VWP study investigating L1 and L2 speakers. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218241270200

Gamboa, J. C. B., Kolesova, K., Järvikivi, J., & Allen, S. E. M. (2024).  The distributional properties of long nominal compounds in scientific articles: An investigation based on the Uniform Information Density hypothesis. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory.  https://doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2023-0028

Gamboa, J. C. B., Fernandez, L. B., & Allen, S. E. M. (2024). Investigating the Uniform Information Density hypothesis with complex nominal compounds. Applied Psycholinguistics, 1–46. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716424000092

Dash, A., Sahu, A., Shringi, R., Gamboa, J. C. B., Afzal, M. Z., Malik, M. I., Dengel, A. & Ahmed, S. (2017). AirScript - creating documents in air. In 14th ICDAR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (pp. 908-913). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDAR.2017.153

Binsfeld, R., Gamboa, J., & Walter, M. (2011). Visual patterns in the plant kingdom. In 24th SIBGRAPI Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images (pp. 86-92). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/SIBGRAPI.2011.44

 

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Gamboa, J., Ito Gómez, Järvikivi, J., Allen, S. E. M. (2024, November). On the influence of the context in the processing of English long nominal compounds. Doctoral Symposium on Cognitive Science: Beyond Averages, University of Kaiserslautern, Frankenstein, Germany.

Ito Gómez, F. M., Gamboa, J., Järvikivi, J., Allen, S. E. M. (2022, October). The effect of context and familiarity in the processing on nominal compounds. 12th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada.

Gamboa, J., Allen, S. (2021, May). L2 speakers are sensitive to the implicit relations in modifier-noun combinations. Psycholinguistics in Flanders 2021, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany.

Gamboa, J., Fernandez, L., Allen, S. (2019, September). On the difficulties of processing nominal compounds: Evidence from an eye-tracking study. 25th Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia.

Gamboa, J., Fernandez, L., Allen, S. (2019, August). Guessing the line currently being read: Approaches for offline recalibration of eye-tracking reading data. 20th European Conference on Eye Movements, Alicante, Spain.

 

TEACHING

  • Syntax
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Mathematical Foundations for the Cognitive Sciences
  • Methods classes on building experiments and analyzing data with Python
  • Introduction to Programming with Python

 

PROGRAMMING AND STATISTICAL SKILLS

Programming languages:

  • Extensive experience with: C, C++, Python, R
  • Previous experience with: bash script, CUDA, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Lua, Schala, C#, Haskell 

 

Additional computational skills:

  • Git, SVN, LaTeX, Make
  • Long-term experience with Linux

 

Statistical skills:

  • Experience with machine learning and psycholinguistic methods

 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

  • Organizing committee of Psycholinguistics in Flanders 2021

 

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

  • Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology (September 2019). Introductory frequentist stream. University of Potsdam, Germany
  • Statistics for linguists with R. Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism. University of Reading, UK, 2018

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

  • Scholarship of the TU Kaiserslautern, 2014
  • Scholarship of the Stipendienstiftung Rheinland-Pfalz (promoted by the Ministry of Education), 2015
  • Scholarship of the DAAD, 2016
  • Haaß Stiftung, support for a 2-month research stay in the University of Alberta, 2018
  • Scholarship of the TU Kaiserslautern for PhD, 2018-2021

 

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