Call: BOOT-LA, April 2003, Indiana University

[Damir Cavar]

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             Call for Papers: BOOT-LA

     Bootstrapping in Language Acquisition:
Psychological, Linguistic and Computational Aspects

      Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
                  April 21-23, 2003
       http://jones.ling.indiana.edu/boot-la/

   Due Date of Paper Submission is March 1, 2003
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TITLE
BOOT-LA: Bootstrapping in Language Acquisition: Psychological, Linguistic
and Computational Aspects

SCOPE
Bootstrapping approaches to language acquisition have been extensively
addressed by researchers in domains like psycholinguistics, computational
and theoretical linguistics, cognitive science, machine learning. This
workshop aims at bringing together researchers in these fields.

LOCATION
Indiana University, Bloomington campus, Bloomington, Indiana.

TIME
21st to 23rd of April, 2003

AREAS OF INTEREST 
The workshop seeks to provide a forum for presentation and discussion of
original research on different aspects of bootstrapping including, but not
limited to:
* its role in language acquisition for different domains, from a
theoretical, computational and psycholinguistic point of view
* empirical evidence for bootstrapping strategies from psycholinguistic,
psychological or cognitive science
* concepts, algorithms, techniques, strategies and consequences from work
on:
	- grammar induction
	- learnability theory
	- parameter setting approaches
	- constraint-based approaches
	- cue-based learning
* computational approaches to learning subctegorization frames
* how much knowledge can be bootstrapped from function words
* strategies for lexical/sense disambiguation.

Invited speakers are:

Morten Christiansen (Cornell University)
Michael Gasser (Indiana University)
William Sakas (City University of New York)
Linda Smith (Indiana University)
Jürgen Weissenborn (Universität Potsdam)
Charles Yang (Yale University)



ORGANIZATIONAL ISSUES

SUBMISSION DEADLINE
FRIDAY, MARCH 1st, 2003 

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT
Abstracts can be at most 400 words of text. You may also include examples,
references and data summaries (but no data charts or diagrams). This
additional material, taken together, should not exceed 15 lines of text.

METHOD OF SUBMISSION
As an e-mail attachment.
Name, Title and affiliation should be sent in a different attachment.

The workshop homepage can be found at the following URL:
http://jones.ling.indiana.edu/boot-la/


ORGANIZATION

Damir Cavar
Malgorzata Cavar
Laurent Dekydtspotter
Khaled Elghamry
Steven Franks
Rex Sprouse


Contact:

If you have questions or concerns, please contact:

Damir Cavar <dcavar at indiana.edu>

Indiana University
Linguistics Dept.
Memorial Hall, Room 402
1021 E. Third Street
Bloomington, IN. 47405-7005
phone: (812) 855-3268
fax: (812) 855-5363


Note:

Following this workshop will be "The 33rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance
Languages" (Indiana University, Bloomington). Details on the LSRL can be
found here: http://www.indiana.edu/~lsrl33/lsrl_page_1.htm