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Jet Hoek

Assistant professor at Radboud University Nijmegen Department of Language and Communication

Journal articles

Rohde, H., Hoek, J., Keshev, M. & Franke, M. (2022). This better be interesting: A speaker's decision to speak cues listeners to expect informative content. Open Mind 6: 118–131.

Scholman, M., Blything, L., Cain, K., Hoek, J., & Evers-Vermeul, J. (2022). Discourse rules: The effects of clause order principles on the reading process. Language, Cognition & Neuroscience.

Hoek, J., Kehler, A., & Rohde, H.(2021). Pronominalization and expectations for re-mention: Modeling coreference in contexts with three referents. Frontiers in Communication 6:674126.

Hoek, J., Rohde, H., Evers-Vermeul, J., & Sanders, T.J.M. (2021). Expectations from relative clauses: Real-time coherence updates in discourse processing. Cognition 210.

Hoek, J., Rohde, H., Evers-Vermeul, J., & Sanders, T.J.M. (2021). Scolding the child who threw the scissors: Shaping discourse expectations by restricting referents. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 36(3): 382-399.

Hoek, J., Sanders, T.J.M., & Spooren, W.P.M.S. (2021). Automatic coherence analysis of Dutch: Testing the subjectivity hypothesis on a larger scale. Corpora 16(1): 129-155.

Hoek, J., Zufferey, S., Evers-Vermeul, J., & Sanders, T.J.M. (2019). The linguistic marking of coherence relations: Interactions between connectives and segment-internal elements. Pragmatics & Cognition 25(2): 275-309.

Hoek, J., Evers-Vermeul, J., & Sanders, T.J.M. (2019). Using the Cognitive approach to Coherence Relations for discourse annotation. Dialogue & Discourse 10(2): 1-33.

Bourgonje, P., Hoek, J., Evers-Vermeul, J., Redeker, G., Sanders, T.J.M., & Stede, M. (2018). Constructing a lexicon of Dutch discourse connectives. CLIN Journal 8: 163-175.

Sanders, T.J.M., Demberg, V., Hoek, J., Scholman, M.C.J., Asr, F.T., Zufferey, S., & Evers-Vermeul, J. (2018). Unifying dimensions in coherence relations: How various annotation frameworks are related. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. [Online preview]

Hoek, J., Evers-Vermeul, J. & Sanders, T.J.M. (2018). Segmenting discourse: Incorporating interpretation into segmentation? Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 14(2): 357-386.

Hoek, J., Zufferey, S., Evers-Vermeul, J., & Sanders, T.J.M. (2017). Cognitive complexity and the linguistic marking of coherence relations: A parallel corpus study. Journal of Pragmatics 121: 113-131.

Evers-Vermeul, J., Hoek, J., & Scholman, M.C.J. (2017). On temporality in discourse annotation: Theoretical and practical considerations. Dialogue & Discourse 8(2): 1-20.

Book chapters

Sanders, T.J.M., Hoek, J. & Scholman, M.C.J. (2023). Experimental studies in discourse. In: S. Zufferey & P. Gygax (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Experimental Linguistics (pp.120-138). Routledge.

Hoek, J. & Scholman, M.C.J. (2023). Expressing non-volitional causality in English. In: L. Jędrzejowski & C. Fleczoreck (Eds.), Micro- and Macro-variation of Causal Clauses. Synchronic and Diachronic Insights [Studies in Language Companion Series] (pp.167-183). John Benjamins.

Hoek, J. & de Hoop, H. (2016). On the optimal interpretation of yes and no in Dutch. In: G. Legendre, M.T. Putnam, H. de Swart, & E. Zaroukian (Eds.), Optimality Theoretic Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics: From Uni- to Bidirectional Optimization (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics; Vol. 61, pp.220-247). Oxford University Press.

Articles in conference proceedings

Hoek, J., Scholman, M.C.J., & Sanders, T.J.M. (2021). Is there less agreement when the discourse is underspecified? Annotation of coherence relations in TED talks. Proceedings of the DiscAnn Workshop.

Riester, A., Canes Nápoles, A., & Hoek, J. (2021). Combined discourse representations: Coherence relations and questions under discussion. Proceedings of the DiscAnn Workshop.

Brocher, A., Weeber, F., Hoek, J. & von Heusinger, K. (2020). Referent management in discourse: The accessibility of weak definites. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Hoek, J. & Scholman, M.C.J. (2017). Evaluating discourse annotation: Some recent insights and new approaches. Proceedings of the 13th Joint ISO-ACL Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (isa-13), 1-13.

Hoek, J., Evers-Vermeul, J., & Sanders, T.J.M. (2015). The role of expectedness in the implicitation and explicitation of discourse relations. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Discourse in Machine Translation (DiscoMT), 41-46.

Hoek, J. & Zufferey, S. (2015). Factors influencing the implicitation of discourse relations across languages. Proceedings of the 11th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (isa-11), 39-45.

PhD thesis

Hoek, J. (2018). Making Sense of Discourse: On discourse segmentation and the marking of coherence relations. PhD thesis, Utrecht University. LOT: Utrecht.

Presentations

Wilke, H., Hoek, J., & Rohde, H. (2022). The effects of information structure and sentence structure on sentence processing. Talk presented at Linguistic Evidence. Paris, France.

Buchholz, T., Hoek, J., & von Heusinger, K. (2022). Clausal prominence and coreference: The interaction of syntactic and prosodic cues. Poster presented at XPRAG 2022. Pavia, Italy.

Wilke, H., Hoek, J., & Rohde, H. (2022). At-issue status affects coreference via clause type and position. Poster presented at AMLaP 2022. York, UK.

Wilke, H., Hoek, J., & Rohde, H. (2022). It was/wasn't what I expected: Predicting the right antecedent. Talk presented at 55th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE). Bucharest, Romania.

Buchholz, T., Hoek, J., & von Heusinger, K. (2022). Syntactic and prosodic cues for prominent clauses. Poster presented at 3rd International Conference "Prominence in Language". Cologne, Germany.

Hoek, J. (2022). Adverbial clauses: Not that much of an issue? Talk presented at International conference on Adverbial clauses between subordination and coordination. Cologne, Germany.

Hoek, J. (2022). Pronoun production and interpretation in contexts with multiple referents CLS Talks. Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Hoek, J., Scholman, M.C.J., & Sanders, T.J.M. (2021). Is there less agreement when the discourse is underspecified? Annotation of coherence relations in TED talks. Talk presented at DiscAnn. Tübingen, Germany.

Riester, A., Canes Nápoles, A., & Hoek, J. (2021). Combined discourse representations: Coherence relations and questions under discussion. Talk presented at DiscAnn. Tübingen, Germany.

Hoek, J. (2020). Syntactic coordination and the prominence of discourse referents. Talk presented at The 10th international workshop on referential expressions in discourse (RED10). Cologne, Germany [online].

Brocher, A., Weeber, F., Hoek, J. & von Heusinger, K. (2020). Referent management in discourse: The accessibility of weak definites. Poster presented at The 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Toronto, Canada [online].

Hoek, J. (2019). Prominence while you wait? Talk presented at The 9th international workshop on referential expressions in discourse (RED9). Kassel, Germany.

Hoek, J., Kehler, A., & Rohde, H. (2019). Modeling coreference in contexts with three referents. Talk presented at Rational Approaches in Language Science (RAILS). Saarbrücken, Germany. Abstract Slides

Hoek, J., Zufferey, S., Evers-Vermeul, & Sanders, T.J.M. (2019). The role of segment-internal elements in the signaling of coherence relations. Talk presented at Workshop Contrasting Underspecification and Overspecification of Discourse Relations. Berlin, Germany.

Hoek, J., Kehler, A., & Rohde, H. (2019). Pronominalization and expectations for re-mention: Evidence from benefactives. Poster presented at DETEC2019. Berlin, Germany. Abstract Poster

Wilke, H., Hoek, J., Los, B., Sorace, A., & Rohde, H. (2019). Expectations for novelty: The role of information structure in syntactic processing. Poster presented at DETEC2019. Berlin, Germany. Abstract Poster

Hoek, J. & Rohde, H. (2019). Is pronominalization influenced by predictability? Poster presented at XPRAG 2019. Edinburgh, UK. Abstract Poster

Hoek, J. & Rohde, H. (2019). Effects of predictability and optionality on pronominalization. Poster presented at CUNY. Boulder, Colorado. Abstract Poster

Hoek, J., Rohde, H., Evers-Vermeul, & Sanders, T.J.M. (2018). Updating Discourse-level Expectations during Online Processing. Talk presented at 28th Annual Meeting of the Society of Text and Discourse (ST&D). Brighton, UK.

Hoek, J., Zufferey, S., Evers-Vermeul, & Sanders, T.J.M. (2018). Connective or no connective? The influence of default expectations and the presence of segment-internal cues on the linguistic marking of coherence relations. Talk presented at Workshop Implicit and Explicit marking of Discourse Relations. Osnabrück, Germany.

Hoek, J., Zufferey, S., Evers-Vermeul, J. & Sanders, T.J.M. (2018). Using translation corpora to research the interaction between segment-internal elements and connectives. Poster presented at Final TextLink Action Conference. Toulouse, France.

Komen, E.R., & Hoek, J. (2018). Automating coherence analysis for the computationally challenged. Poster presented at Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands. Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Bourgonje, P., Evers-Vermeul, J., Hoek, J., Redeker, G., Sanders, T.J.M., & Stede, M. (2018). A Lexicon of Dutch Connectives. Poster presented at Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands. Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Hoek, J., Rohde, H., Evers-Vermeul, J., & Sanders, T.J.M. (2017). Coherence-driven discourse expectations from restrictive relative clauses. Talk presented at 27th Annual Meeting of the Society of Text and Discourse (ST&D). Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Hoek, J., Rohde, H., Evers-Vermeul, J., & Sanders, T.J.M. (2017). Shaping discourse expectations by restricting referents. Talk presented at DETEC2017. Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Hoek, J., & Rohde, H. (2017). Restrictive relative clause constructions as implicit coherence relations. Talk presented at 50th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE). Zürich, Switzerland.

Hoek, J., Evers-Vermeul, J., & Sanders, T.J.M. (2017). Complete and independent? Reconsidering discourse segmentation basics. Talk presented at Information structuring in discourse (Workshop at DGFS2017). Saarbrücken, Germany.

Hoek, J., Zufferey, S., Evers-Vermeul, & Sanders, T.J.M. (2017). Discourse connectives in translation. Talk presented at CogLing7. Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Hoek, J., Zufferey, S., Evers-Vermeul, J., & Sanders, T.J.M. (2016). When do we need a connective? Cognitive complexity and the linguistic marking of coherence relations. Talk presented at 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse (ST&D). Kassel, Germany.

Evers-Vermeul, J., Hoek, J., & Scholman, M. (2016). On temporality in discourse annotation. Talk presented at Second TextLink Action Conference. Budapest, Hungary.

Sanders, T.J.M., Demberg, V., Evers-Vermeul, J., Hoek, J., Scholman, M., & Zufferey, S. (2016). How can we relate various annotation schemes? Unifying dimensions in discourse relations. Talk presented at Second TextLink Action Conference. Budapest, Hungary.

Hoek, J., Evers-Vermeul, J., & Sanders, T.J.M. (2016). Discourse segmentation and ambiguity in discourse structure. Poster presented at Second TextLink Action Conference. Budapest, Hungary.

Hoek, J., Evers-Vermeul, J., & Sanders, T.J.M. (2016). Segmenting discourse units: Incorporating interpretation into decision rules? Talk presented at 3rd International Conference on Linguistic & Psycholinguistic Approaches to Text Structuring (LPTS16). Valencia, Spain.

Sanders, T.J.M., Demberg, V., Evers-Vermeul, J., Hoek, J., Scholman, M., Asr, F.T., & Zufferey, S. (2016). Unifying dimensions in discourse relations: How various annotation schemes are related. Talk presented at 3rd International Conference on Linguistic & Psycholinguistic Approaches to Text Structuring (LPTS16). Valencia, Spain.

Hoek, J., Evers-Vermeul, J., & Sanders, T.J.M. (2015). The role of expectedness in the implicitation and explicitation of discourse relations. Poster presented at Second Workshop on Discourse in Machine Translation (DiscoMT). Lisbon, Portugal.

Hoek, J., Zufferey, S., Evers-Vermeul, J., & Sanders, T.J.M. (2015). Cognitive factors affecting the explicit vs. implicit communication of discourse relations across languages. Talk presented at 14th International Pragmatics Association (IPRA) Antwerpen, Belgium.

Hoek, J. & Zufferey, S. (2015). Factors influencing the implicitation of discourse relations across languages. Talk presented at 11th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (isa-11), London, UK.

Hoek, J., & Zufferey, S. (2015). Annotating implicit coherence relations in parallel corpora. Poster presented at TextLink First Action Conference. Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.