11.157, Confs: Evolutionary Computation and Cognitive Science

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-11-157. Tue Jan 25 2000. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 11.157, Confs: Evolutionary Computation and Cognitive Science

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Date:  Tue, 25 Jan 2000 20:42:23 +1000 (EST)
From:  Janet Wiles <janetw at csee.uq.edu.au>
Subject:  ECCS Workshop program

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Date:  Tue, 25 Jan 2000 20:42:23 +1000 (EST)
From:  Janet Wiles <janetw at csee.uq.edu.au>
Subject:  ECCS Workshop program

ECCS is on this Friday in Melbourne.  For your information, the final
program is appended to this email. Please feel free to forward it to
other colleagues who may be interested.

A Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computing
will be devoted to the theme of the workshop - Evolutionary Computing and
Cognitive Science. More details will be available at the workshop or on
the web page afterwards.

	        Program for the Workshop on
   Evolutionary Computation and Cognitive Science

	Friday 28 - Saturday 29 January 2000	
	 La Trobe University City Campus
      215 Franklin Street Melbourne, Room AG 04
  -------------------------------------------------


Friday 28 January

8:30	Registration and coffee

9:30	Tutorial on Evolutionary Computation - Jennifer Hallinan,
	University of Queensland
	Opening Address - Janet Wiles, University of Queensland

12:00 	What is stable enough for language to evolve and
	still be learnable?
	Roger Wales, La Trobe University
	& Chris Davis,  University of Melbourne

2:00	Negotiating syntax
        John Batali, University of California at San Diego

3:00	Language adapts to aid its own survival: Towards a
	working model of the emergence of morphosyntax
       	Simon Kirby, University of Edinburgh

4:30	Evolving language to the edge of chaos: Boolean nets
	and linguistic parameters
	James Hurford, University of Edinburgh.

Saturday 29 January

9:30	What are the conditions for language emergence in
	the record of human evolution?
	Iain Davidson, University of New England

11:00	The punctuated equilibrium model of language evolution
	R.M.W. Dixon, La Trobe University

12:00 - 2:00pm Poster session and Lunch

2:00	Survival of the least fit: The prisoner's dilemma in
	evolutionary computation
	Marcus Frean, Victoria University of Wellington

3:00	Investigating the constraints on the emergence of
	word order universals: Evidence from connectionist
	simulations and artificial grammar learning
	Morten Christiansen, Southern Illinois University

4:30	Signs, symbols and words in language evolution models
     	Angelo Cangelosi, University of Plymouth


Posters

Evolving recurrent networks for context-free language prediction
  Mikael Boden, Henrik Jacobsson, and Tom Ziemke

Training neural networks to predict a context-sensitive language by
evolutionary hill-climbing
  Stefan Chalup and Alan D. Blair

Modeling sound systems with evolutionary computation techniques
  Jinyun Ke and William S-Y Wang

Language and the Cuneiforms
  Peter Linaker

Evolving self-sacrifice: A case study in experimental ethics
  Ann Nicholson, Kevin Korb, and Steven Mascaro

Using an evolutionary algorithm to guide problem selection in an online
educational game
  Elizabeth Sklar and Jordan Pollack

How innate must language be?
  Brad Tonkes and Janet Wiles

Neural weak classifiers for language learning
  Michael Towsey, Claire D'Este and Joachim Diederich

An evolutionary model of natural language generation
  Huck Turner

Exploring semantic complexity by a computational learning model
  Yuan Yao and Jinyun Ke


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Registration on site:
    AUS$ 95  (ordinary)
    AUS$ 60  (student)

Further details:
    http://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/CogPsych/eccs/eccs.html

  _-_|\     A/Prof. Janet Wiles <janetw at csee.uq.edu.au>
 /     *    Joint Appointment in the School of Psychology and
 \_.-._/    Dept of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
      v     The University of Queensland QLD 4072 AUSTRALIA
            http://psy.uq.oz.au/CogPsych/home.html

ECCS homepage http://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/CogPsych/eccs/eccs.html

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