<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">----------------<br>Please distribute widely - Apologies for cross-posting<br><br>*******************************************<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>CALL FOR PARTICIPATION<br>WORKSHOP ON LANGUAGE, COGNITION AND COMPUTATIONAL MODELS<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>*** REGISTRATION EXTENDED TO MAY 21, 2013 ***<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Paris, May 28-29, 2013<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/lccmodels/home">https://sites.google.com/site/lccmodels/home</a><br><br>We are pleased to invite you to:<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>The Workshop on Language, Cognition and Computational Models, <br><br>which will be held in Paris at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) and at the Institut des Systèmes Complexes <br>de Paris, on May 28th and 29th 2013.<br><br>The goal of this event is to provide a venue for the multidisciplinary discussion of theoretical and practical research<br>for computational models of language and cognition. The event centers around recent advances on computational<br>models for language acquisition, processing and evolution.<br><br>The first day will mainly address language evolution and some of the computational models that have been proposed<br>to investigate possible avenues for this phenomenon. The second day will address more varied issues, ranging from<br>the origins of language to recent trends in machine translation. All the talks will address key questions dealing with <br>cognitive, formal and/or computational issues related to language evolution and/or language processing.<br><br>The event is open to students, researchers and anyone interested in related topics. Attendance is free but people who plan <br>to attend are kindly requested to register preferably before May 21st to help with the planning of the event. The registration<br>form is available at <br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/lccmodels/registration">https://sites.google.com/site/lccmodels/registration</a><br><br>The workshop is funded by the cluster of labs (labex) Transfers. It is organized thanks to the support of Lattice, <br>Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris Sciences et Lettres, the Institut des Systèmes Complexes de Paris-Ile de France, <br>the Institute of Informatics of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil).<br><br>*******************************************<br>PROGRAMME:<br><br>Tuesday May 28th<br><br> 09:00 - 09:15 - Opening - ENS - salle Dussane<br> 09:15 - 12:45 - Multidisciplinary Aspects of Language Evolution<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• 09:15 - 10:15 - <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Dan Dediu (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands)<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>The interplay between linguistic and biological evolution<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• 10:15 - 11:15 - <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Ted Briscoe (University of Cambridge, UK) <br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>A model of L1/L2 Language Acquisition and its implications for language change<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• 11:15 - 11:45 - Break<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• 11:45 - 12:45 - <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Anne Reboul (L2C2-CNRS, France)<br> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Social Evolution of public languages: between Rousseau's Eden and Hobbes' Leviathan<br> 12:45 - 14:30 - Lunch Break<br><br> 14:30 - 17:00 - Modeling Language Evolution: Two Case Studies - ISC-PIF <br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• 14:30 - 15:30 - <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Benjamin Fagard (Lattice-CNRS, France)<br> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Case, Prepositions and In‐Betweens: Sketching a Model of Grammatical Evolution<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• 15:30 - 16:30 - <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Remi van Trijp (Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris, France) <br> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Linguistic Assessment Criteria for Explaining Language Change: A Case Study on Syncretism in <br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>German Definite Articles<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• 16:30 - 17:00 - Discussions<br><br>Wednesday May 29th<br><br> 09:00 - 11:00 - Cognitive and Computational Approaches to Language Processing - ENS - salle Dussane<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• 09:00 - 10:00 - <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Robert Berwick (MIT, USA) <br> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>The Dead Tell No Tales: Known Unknowns about the Origin of Human Language<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• 10:00 - 11:00 - <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Massimo Poesio (University of Trento, Italy and University of Essex, UK)<br> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Using Data about Conceptual Representations in the Brain for Computational Linguistics<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• 11:00 - 11:30 - Break<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• 11:30 - 12:30 - <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Philippe Blache (LPL, CNRS, France) <br> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Measuring difficulty as well as facilitation: a new perspective for human language processing<br><br> 12:30 - 14:30 - Lunch Break<br> 14:30 - 15:30 - From Language Variety to Machine Tanslation - ENS - salle Dussane<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• 14:30 - 15:30 - <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa, Israel)<br> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>The Features of Translationese<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• 15:30 - 16:30 - <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Martin Kay (Stanford University, USA)<br> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Putting Linguistics back into Computational Linguistics<br> 16:30 - 17:00 - Discussions and Closing<br><br>*******************************************<br>ORGANIZATION<br><br>The event is organized by:<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• Thierry Poibeau, Laboratoire Lattice ("Langues, Textes, Traitements informatiques et Cognition", UMR8094, CNRS, École Normale Supérieure & Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, France)<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• Aline Villavicencio, Institute of Informatics, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)<br><br>*******************************************<br>LOCATIONS<br><br>*Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS): Salle Dussane, 45 rue d'Ulm 75005 Paris <br>*Institut des Systèmes Complexes de Paris-Ile de France (ISC-PIF): 57-59 rue Lhomond F-75005, Paris <br><br>*******************************************<br>CONTACT INFORMATION<br><br>For any inquiries regarding the workshop please send an email to <a href="mailto:lccmodels2013@gmail.com">lccmodels2013@gmail.com</a><br>More information on <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/lccmodels/home">https://sites.google.com/site/lccmodels/home</a></body></html>