Hi,<br><br> Regarding the following post, deadline for paper submission to the special issue on Computational Models of First Language Acquisition is extended to December 15, 2009.<br>But on your website ( <a href="http://www.springer.com/linguistics/computational+linguistics/journal/11168">http://www.springer.com/linguistics/computational+linguistics/journal/11168</a> ) it is announced January 15, 2009!<br>
Is it extended from about one year ago to now, or the date on the website is a typo? Or as I guess the correct submission due is extended to January 15, 2010?<br><br>Regards,<br>Fatemeh Torabi Asr<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
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Date: Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 3:36 PM<br>Subject: [Corpora-List] Extended Deadline ROLC special issue on Computational Models of First Language Acquisition<br>To: <a href="mailto:CORPORA@uib.no" target="_blank">CORPORA@uib.no</a><br>
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<br>
Computational Models of First Language Acquisition<br>
Special Issue of Research on Language and Computation<br>
<br>
Call for Papers<br>
<br>
The journal Research on Language and Computation invites submission of<br>
papers<br>
for a special issue on Computational Models of Language Acquisition.<br>
<br>
Computational Models of First Language Acquisition<br>
Special Issue of Research on Language and Computation<br>
<br>
Editors<br>
<br>
Alexander Clark, Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway,<br>
University of London<br>
<br>
William Gregory Sakas, Hunter College and The Graduate Center,<br>
City University of New York<br>
<br>
Important dates<br>
<br>
Submission of full papers: December 15, 2009<br>
Notifications of decision: February 31, 2010<br>
Revised versions due: May 1, 2010<br>
Second review: July 1, 2010<br>
Final versions: September 1, 2010<br>
Publication: Late 2010<br>
<br>
Background<br>
<br>
Language acquisition has for a long time stood as one of the most<br>
fundamental,<br>
beguiling, and surprisingly open questions of modern science. Recent<br>
advances in<br>
natural language processing, statistical parsing and machine learning,<br>
together<br>
with the availability of large corpora of child directed speech and other<br>
corpora,<br>
make a wide range of computationally-oriented approaches to the study of<br>
this<br>
problem available. In this special issue, we will provide a forum for the full<br>
range<br>
of current approaches to this important field.<br>
<br>
Psychocomputational models of language acquisition are of particular<br>
interest in<br>
light of recent results in developmental psychology that suggest that very<br>
young<br>
infants are adept at detecting statistical patterns in an audible input stream.<br>
Though, how children might plausibly apply statistical 'machinery' to the<br>
task of<br>
grammar acquisition, with or without an innate language component,<br>
remains an<br>
open and important question. One effective line of investigation is to<br>
computationally model the acquisition process, through simulation,<br>
mathematically, the statistical analysis of corpora, etc., and determine<br>
interrelationships between a model and linguistic or psycholinguistic theory,<br>
and/or correlations between a model's performance and data from<br>
linguistic<br>
environments that children are<br>
exposed to.<br>
<br>
Topics<br>
<br>
We aim to publish papers that describe state of the art techniques in<br>
computational models of language acquisition. These should be<br>
computationally<br>
explicit but not necessarily implemented and these could be evaluated<br>
empirically, theoretically or on the basis of a detailed case study.<br>
This special issue should provide an interdisciplinary forum where<br>
researchers in<br>
theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, natural language processing,<br>
grammatical<br>
inference, machine learning and cognitive science can present research on<br>
the<br>
computational modelling of first language acquisition.<br>
<br>
We welcome papers from any of the current models of linguistic theorising:<br>
standard and enriched context free models, Principles and Parameters<br>
models,<br>
Optimiality theory and reseachers working within the Minimalist Program,<br>
and<br>
other approaches.<br>
<br>
Topics include but are not limited to:<br>
<br>
* Models that address the acquisition of word-order;<br>
* Models that combine parsing and learning<br>
* Formal learning-theoretic and grammar induction models that use<br>
psychologically plausible models of the information available to the<br>
learner<br>
* Comparative surveys that critique previously reported studies<br>
* Models that address learning bias in terms of innate linguistic knowledge<br>
versus statistical regularity in the input<br>
* Models that employ language modeling techniques from corpus linguistics<br>
* Models that employ techniques from machine learning<br>
* Models of language change and its effect on language acquisition or vice<br>
versa<br>
* Models that employ statistical/probabilistic grammars<br>
* Computational models that can be used to evaluate existing linguistic or<br>
developmental theories (e.g., principles & parameters, optimality theory,<br>
construction grammar, etc.)<br>
* Empirical models that make use of child-directed corpora such as<br>
CHILDES,<br>
or indeed adult corpora as contrasted with child-directed corpora<br>
<br>
Instructions<br>
<br>
Submissions should be made online using Springer's Editorial Manager<br>
System,<br>
available at <a href="http://www.editorialmanager.com/rolc" target="_blank">http://www.editorialmanager.com/rolc</a><br>
<br>
Length<br>
12,000 words (approximately 30 pages) for a standard submission<br>
4,000 words (approximately 10 pages) for a brief report<br>
<br>
Further information<br>
<br>
Please contact Alexander Clark (alexc @ <a href="http://cs.rhul.ac.uk" target="_blank">cs.rhul.ac.uk</a>) or William Sakas<br>
(<a href="mailto:sakas@hunter.cuny.edu" target="_blank">sakas@hunter.cuny.edu</a>) with any further questions.<br>
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