11.250, Confs: Analogical Modeling of Language/ AML

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Subject: 11.250, Confs: Analogical Modeling of Language/ AML

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Date:  Fri, 04 Feb 2000 18:04:31 +0000
From:  AML Conference <lonz at byu.edu>
Subject:  Analogical Modeling of Language/ AML

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Date:  Fri, 04 Feb 2000 18:04:31 +0000
From:  AML Conference <lonz at byu.edu>
Subject:  Analogical Modeling of Language/ AML

Following is an abbreviated preliminary program for
the Conference on Analogical Modeling of Language (AML)
to be held at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA
on March 22-24, 2000.

More complete information (including abstracts, conference
registration procedures, and transportation/accomodation
suggestions) is available at the AML Research Group web page:

  http://humanities.byu.edu/aml/homepage.html

or via email to: aml-conf at email.byu.edu

Wednesday, 22 March 2000
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Tutorial workshop
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Royal Skousen: Basic introduction to AML
Deryle Lonsdale: Setting up AML data files
Dil Parkinson: Running the Perl program
Walter Daelemans and Antal van den Bosch: Demonstration of TiMBL

Thursday, 23 March 2000
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Opening session: Welcome and overall issues
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Melvin J. Luthy [BYU] Welcome to conference
Royal Skousen [BYU] "The issues in AML"

Afternoon session: Comparison of instance-based approaches
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Walter Daelemans [Belgium, Netherlands]
"Comparing AML to Memory-Based Language Processing"

Steve Chandler [U. of Idaho]
"Skousen's Analogical Approach as an Exemplar-Based Model of
Categorization"

Michael Mudrow [Indiana U.]
"Version Spaces, Neural Networks, and AML or A Model by Any Other
Name"

David Eddington [Mississippi State U.]
"A Comparison of Two Analogical Models: TiMBL versus AML"

Andrea Krott and Harald Baayen [Netherlands]
"Modeling linking morphemes in Dutch n-n compounds with lazy-learning"

Antal van den Bosch [Netherlands]
"Expanding k-NN analogy through value combinatorics within instance
families"

Dinner / party / discussions

Friday, 24 March 2000
=====================

Morning session 1: Applications to linguistics
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James Myers [Taiwan]
"Exemplar-Driven Analogy in Optimality Theory"

Robert Kirchner and Kevin Hynna [U. of Alberta]
"Modeling Phonoligization"

William Eggington [BYU]
"AML and Contemporary Second Language Acquisition Theory and Research"

Deryle Lonsdale [BYU]
"Analogical cloning and other NLP applications of AML"

Morning session 2: Language applications
- ----------------
Douglas Wulf [U of Washington]
"Applying AML to the German Plural"

Michael Mudrow [Indiana U.]
"Accounting for Variation in Danish Compounds"

Royal Skousen [BYU]
"Predicting the Finnish past-tense analogically"

Afternoon session 1: Issues in classification and selection
- ------------------
Rob Freeman [New Zealand]
"Beyond Classification: Syntax and Semantics as the Production of Ad
Hoc Classes"

Christer Johansson [Japan]
"Analogous Categories"

Jorn Veenstra [Netherlands]
"Proportional versus Most-Likely Extrapolation from the Analogical
Set"

Afternoon session 2: Language applications
- ------------------
Anton Rytting [BYU]
"An Empirical Test of Analogical Modeling: The k/0 Alternation in
Turkish"

Dana Bourgerie [BYU]
topic: applying AML to Chinese classifiers Larger issues

David Eddington [Mississippi State U.]
"Analogy and the dual-route model of morphology"

Royal Skousen [BYU]
"The exponential explosion and quantum computing"

Bruce Derwing [U. of Alberta]
Closing summary

Dinner / party / discussions

[Alternate paper: Deryle Lonsdale (BYU): "An operator-based
implementation of AML"]


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