Publications

  1. Jon Sprouse*, Beracah Yankama, Sagar Indurkhya, Sandiway Fong and Robert C. Berwick, Colorless green ideas do sleep furiously: gradient acceptability and the nature of the grammar, in The Linguistic Review 2018, DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2011.01189.x
  2. A. Villavicencio, M. Idiart, C. Ramisch, V. Araùjo, B. Yankama, R.C. Berwick, Get out but don’t fall down: verb-particle constructions in child language, ACL ’12 (Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Models of Language Acquisition and Loss), April 23-25, Avignon France, 2012, pgs 43-50
  3. A. Villavicencio, B.Yankama, R. Wilkens, M. Idiart, R.C. Berwick, An annotated English child language database, ACL 2012 (Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Models of Language Acquisition and Loss), April 23-25, Avignon France, 2012
  4. A. Villavicencio, B. Yankama, M. Idiart and R.C. Berwick, A large scale annotated child language construction database, in Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’12), May 23-25, 2012 [lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/276_Paper.pdf]
  5. R. C. Berwick, P. Pietroski, B. Yankama, N. Chomsky, Poverty of the Stimulus Revisited, in Cognitive Science 2011, DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2011.01189.x
  6. D. A. Nordsletten, B. Yankama, R. Umeton, V. A Ayyadurai, and C. F. Dewey, Jr., Multi-scale Mathematical Modeling to Support Drug Development, in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, (Accepted: TBME-00495-2011.R1)
  7. A. Koo, W. Nadherny, M. Legrand, J. Yazbek, J. Wentz, B. Yankama, R. Umeton, S. Ayyadurai, A. Surendran, D. Nordsletten, C. F. Dewey, Jr., In Sillico Modeling of Shear-induced NO Production in Endothelial Cells through Systems Biology (to appear)
  8. R. Umeton, B. Yankama, G. Nicosia, and C. F. Dewey, A Cross-format Framework for Consistent Information Integration among Molecular Pathways and Ontologies, in World Congress on Biomechanics, August 1 – 6, 2010, Singapore, 2010, pp. 1595-1598.
  9. R. Umeton, B. Yankama, G. Nicosia, and C. F. Dewey Jr., OREMP: Ontology Reasoning Engine for Molecular Pathways, in Proceedings of ORES 2010, 1st International Workshop on Ontology Repositories and Editors for the Semantic Web – satellite conference in ESWC 2010, 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference, 2010, pp. 26-30.
  10. R. S. Raymond, B. B. Blinov, N. S. Borisov, J. Cheng, A. M. Davidenko, V. V. Fimushkin, S. E. Gladycheva, V. N. Grishin, T. Kageya, D. Yu. Kantsyrev, D. Kleppner, A. D. Krisch, V. G. Luppov, V. S. Morozov, J. R. Murray, J. J. Neumann, and B. Yankama, Polarized atomic hydrogen beam studies in the Michigan ultra-cold jet, AIP Conf. Proc. 549(1) 674, 2000.

Posters

  1. B. Yankama, Is the Most Likely Model likely to be the Correct Model?, 2012 IEEE North American School on Information Theory, June 19-22, 2012
  2. B. Yankama, D. A. Nordsletten, R. Umeton, V. A. Ayyadurai, C. F. Dewey, Jr., Multi-scale Mathematical Modeling to Support Drug Development, 2011 Biomedical Engineering Society, Oct 13-15, 2011, Hartford, CT.
  3. S. Ayyadurai, C. F. Dewey Jr., C. Pujol, E. Sciacca, R. Umeton, and B. Yankama, Cytosolve: Distributed Simulation of Multiple Biological Pathway Models, 38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington D.C., Poster at MIT Biological Engineering Department Retreat 2010 – Newport, RI, USA – March 22-23, 2010
  4. R. Umeton, B. Yankama, C. Pujol, S. Ayyadurai, G. Nicosia, C.F. Dewey, Jr., A Cross-format Framework for Consistent Information Integration among Molecular Pathways and Ontologies, Poster at MIT Biological Engineering Department Retreat 2010, Newport, RI, USA, March 22-23, 2010
  5. J. M. Lin, J. W. Bohland, P. A. Andrews, I. Iossifov, B. Yankama, J. E. Kulkarni, C. Wu, R. C. Berwick, A. M. Di Sciullo, P. P. Mitra, A Literature Mining and Curation System for Neuroscience Knowledge Discovery, 38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Nov 15 – 19, 2008, Washington D.C.

Talks, Presentations & Sessions

  1. B. Yankama, R. Umeton, S. Ayyadurai, C. F. Dewey, Jr., Aligning and Visualizing Complex Molecular Pathways Using 3D Models, Oral Presentation & Demo at: Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), Austin TX, Oct 9, 2010.
  2. A. Koo, D. Nordsletten, B. Yankama, R. Umeton, S. Ayyadurai, A. Surendran , W. Nadherny, M. Legrand, J. Yazbek, J. Wentz, C. F. Dewey, Jr., In Sillico Modeling of Shear-induced NO Production in Endothelial Cells through Systems Biology Oral Presentation at: Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), Austin TX, Oct 9, 2010.
  3. B. Yankama, C. F. Dewey, Jr., Cytosolve Tutorial and Demonstration, SMA – Computational Systems Biology Symposium, Singapore, Jan 12-14, 2011
  4. R. Umeton, B. Yankama, N. Giuseppe, C.F. Dewey, Jr., OREMP Demo, Ontology Reasoning Engine for Molecular Pathways, Demo at ORES 2010, 1st International Workshop on Ontology Repositories and Editors for the Semantic Web – satellite conference in ESWC 2010, 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference – Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 31, 2010.

Book Chapters

  1. R.C. Berwick, S. Fong, B. Yankama, &  I. Malioutov, Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Acquisition — A Alishahi, T. Poibeau, A. Korhonen & A. Villavicencio, 2011 in press. (eds)., NY: Springer-Verlag.

Theses

  1. B. Yankama, Is the Most Likely Model likely to be the Correct Model? Master’s Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 2009.