Alan Jern I am a fourth year Ph.D. student studying cognitive psychology at Carnegie Mellon University with Charles Kemp. I use computational models to help understand how people think and reason about other people. My other research interests include how people learn and use concepts, and the extent to which people reason and behave rationally. I like television, running, and cooking. Contact Email Address Department of Psychology Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Publications

• Jern, A., Lucas, C. G., & Kemp, C. (2011). Evaluating the inverse decision-making approach to preference learning. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 24.
• Jern, A. & Kemp, C. (2011). Capturing mental state reasoning with influence diagrams. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
• Jern, A. & Kemp, C. (2011). Decision factors that support preference learning. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
• Kemp, C., Han, F., & Jern, A. (2011). Concept learning and modal reasoning. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
• Jern, A., Chang, K. K., & Kemp, C. (2009). Bayesian belief polarization. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22. Supporting material.
• Kemp, C. & Jern, A. (2009). Abstraction and relational learning. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22.
• Kemp, C., Jern, A., & Xu, F. (2009). Object discovery and identification. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22.
• Jern, A. & Kemp, C. (2009). Category generation. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
• Kemp, C. & Jern, A. (2009). A taxonomy of inductive problems. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
• Versley, Y., Ponzetto, S. P., Poesio, M., Eidelman, V., Jern, A., Smith, J., Yang, X., & Moschitti, A. (2008). BART: A modular toolkit for coreference resolution. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
• Versley, Y., Ponzetto, S. P., Poesio, M., Eidelman, V., Jern, A., Smith, J., Yang, X., & Moschitti, A. (2008). BART: A modular toolkit for coreference resolution. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation.