16.211, Confs: Comp Ling/Historical Ling/Cambridge, MA, USA

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Subject: 16.211, Confs: Comp Ling/Historical Ling/Cambridge, MA, USA

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Date: 21-Jan-2005
From: Tandy Warnow < warnow at fas.harvard.edu >
Subject: Mathematical Modelling and Analysis of Language Diversification

	
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Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 20:38:10
From: Tandy Warnow < warnow at fas.harvard.edu >
Subject: Mathematical Modelling and Analysis of Language Diversification


Mathematical Modelling and Analysis of Language Diversification

Date: 21-Mar-2005 - 21-Mar-2005
Location: Cambridge, MA, United States of America
Contact: Tandy Warnow
Contact Email: warnow at fas.harvard.edu
Meeting URL:
http://www.ped.fas.harvard.edu/Conference%20proceedings/Language%20Diversification/description.html


Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Historical Linguistics

Meeting Description:

The problem of inferring the evolutionary history of language families is of
interest to researchers in both historical linguistics and the mathematical
sciences (statistics, computer science, probability, etc.).  The workshop,
hosted by the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard University, aims to
foster dialogue between the two groups.  Four talks focusing on the nature of
the branching process in language diversification will be followed by a panel
discussion in which proposed models and methods will be critiqued with respect
to data and known history.

Current list of speakers and panelists:

Geoff Nichols (speaker)
Department of Mathematics
Auckland University

Andrew Garrett (speaker)
Department of Linguistics
University of California, Berkeley

Jay Jasanoff (panelist and co-chair)
Department of Linguistics
Harvard University

Brett Kessler (speaker)
Department of Psychology
Washington University

James Matisoff (panelist)
Department of Linguistics
University of California, Berkeley

Donald Ringe (panelist)
Department of Linguistics
University of Pennsylvania

Johanna Nichols (panelist; not yet confirmed)
Department of Slavic Languages
University of California, Berkeley

Tandy Warnow (speaker and co-chair)
Program for Evolutionary Dynamics
Department of Computer Sciences
University of Texas at Austin





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