RefNet Summer School on Psychological and Computational Models of Language Production

[Danielle Matthews]

Announcement and Call for Participation

RefNet Summer School on Psychological and Computational Models of Language
Production

24-31 Aug, Edinburgh, UK

http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/k.vdeemter/pages/RefNet/events.html

One reason why language is such a powerful tool for building social and
cognitive capacities is that it allows us to refer, that is, to identify
entities - objects, processes, or ideas.  Unsurprisingly, several academic
disciplines attempt to model our ability to refer. Surprisingly, those
disciplines do not often work together.  RefNet is an EPSRC research
network whose goal is to promote research on reference by building a
community of researchers who can benefit from advances across disciplines.
 This summer's RefNet Summer School Psychological and Computational Models
of Language Production will introduce young researchers to research
techniques from psychology, computing science, and linguistics, among them
eye-tracking, algorithmic models, Bayesian reasoning, and mixed-effects
modelling. While the summer school will focus on the production of
referring expressions, its short courses provide foundations for
interdisciplinary work in many areas.

Location: University of Edinburgh (co-located with RO-MAN,
SemDial/DialWatt), and AMLaP).

Invited evening talks by:
-- Eva Belke (Bochum)
-- Susan Brennan (SUNY at Stony Brook)
-- Emiel Krahmer (Tilburg)
-- Michael Frank (Stanford)
-- Alexander Koller (Potsdam).

Workshop: The Summer School will conclude with a workshop on Reference on
Sunday 31 August, 2014. A Call for Papers for the workshop will follow. The
workshop will be open to people regardless of whether they take part in the
summer school. Participants in the summer school are particularly
encouraged to submit an abstract.

Taught courses scheduled for the Summer School:
-- Multimodal reference. (Piwek, Gatt, Van der Sluis)
-- How children develop the ability to refer to things. (Matthews)
-- Eye-tracking methods for language comprehension and production.
(Hermens, Hill)
-- Statistical methods for language production. (Corley, Barr)
-- Computational algorithms for the generation of referring expressions.
(Van Deemter, Gatt)
-- Linguistic aspects of reference. (Cann)

Registration (from 25 March 2014): To register as a participant of the
RefNet Summer School, please use this page:

http://www.epay.ed.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&deptid=69&catid=10&prodid=1499

(Accommodation for invited speakers and lecturers is being arranged by the
Summer School so there is no need for Lecturers and Invited Speakers to
register.) For postgraduate students, postdocs, and research fellows,
RefNet offers free accommodation and up to £200 in travel money. In case of
over-booking, preference will be given to UK and other EU applicants. Other
participants might find the following sites useful for finding
accommodation: Disclaimer: None of the above constitutes an endorsement of
any of the accommodation bookable through these links.

www.universityrooms.co.uk
www.edinburgh.org/accommodation
www.laterooms.com

Edinburgh is home to a string of summer festivals. (
http://www.edinburghfestivals.co.uk/festivals). The Fringe (and the summer
school location is in the midst of it) finishes as we begin, but the
Festival proper continues throughout the period of the RefNet summer
school/workshop.  It is therefore extremely important for those of you not
automatically booked by the summer school to book your accommodation as
soon as possible.

For details and late changes, please check the web site of the RefNet
Summer School (see above).

Organisers: Ellen Bard, Kees van Deemter, Albert Gatt, Danielle Matthews.

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Danielle Matthews
Department of Psychology
University of Sheffield
Sheffield S10 2TP
Tel: 00 44 114 222 6548
http://www.shef.ac.uk/psychology/staff/academic/danielle-matthews

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