[Corpora-List] Announcement: Psychocomputational Models of Human Language Acquisition Workshop

[William Gregory Sakas]

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                         Call for Participation

        Psycho-computational Models of Human Language Acquisition

      A COLING 2004 Workshop   Geneva Switzerland    28 August 2004

            http://www.colag.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/psychocomp/

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Workshop Topic
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The workshop is devoted to psychologically-motivated computational models of
language acquisition. That is, models that are compatible with research in
psycholinguistics, developmental psychology and linguistics.

Invited Speakers
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  * Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp and Tilburg University
  * Elan Dresher, University of Toronto
  * Jerome A. Feldman, University of California at Berkeley
  * Charles D. Yang, Yale University

Registration
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http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/

Workshop Description
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How children acquire the grammar of their native language(s) is one of the
most beguiling open questions of modern science. The principal goal of this
workshop is to bring together researchers from diverse backgrounds who are
interested in the study of human language acquisition from a computational
perspective. Cross-discipline discussion will be encouraged. Presented
research draws computational linguistics, formal learning theory, machine
learning, artificial intelligence, linguistics, cognitive psychology and
psycholinguistics.

Psycho-computational models of language acquisition are of particular
interest in light of recent results in developmental psychology which suggest
that very young infants are adept at detecting statistical patterns in an
audible input stream. This begs the question, to what extent can a
psychologically plausible statistical learning strategy be successfully
exploited in a "full-blown" psycho-computational acquisition model?

Accepted Papers (full text and presentation schedule available at
     http://www.colag.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/psychocomp/program.html )
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  A Quantitative Evaluation of Naturalistic Models of Language
  Acquisition; the Efficiency of the Triggering Learning
  Algorithm Compared to a Categorial Grammar Learner
  -- Paula Buttery

  On Statistical Parameter Setting
  -- Damir Cavar, Joshua Herring,Toshikazu Ikuta, Paul Rodrigues
  -- and Giancarlo Schrementi

  Putting Meaning into Grammar Learning
  -- Nancy Chang

  Grammatical Inference and First Language Acquisition
  -- Alexander Clark

  A Developmental Model of Syntax Acquisition in the Construction
  Grammar Framework with Cross-Linguistic Validation in English
  and Japanese
  -- Peter Ford Dominey and Toshio Inui

  On the Acquisition of Phonological Representations
  -- B. Elan Dresher

  Statistics Learning and Universal Grammar: Modeling Word
  Segmentation
  -- Timothy Gambell and Charles Yang

  Modelling Syntactic Development in a Cross-Linguistic
  Context
  -- Fernand Gobet, Daniel Freudenthal and Julian M. Pine

  A Computational Model of Emergent Simple Syntax:
  Supporting the Natural Transition from the One-Word Stage to
  the Two-Word Stage
  -- Kris Jack, Chris Reed and Annalu Waller

  On a Possible Role for Pronouns in the Acquisition of Verbs
  -- Aarre Laakso and Linda Smith

  Some Tests of an Unsupervised Model of Language Acquisition
  -- Bo Pedersen, Shimon Edelman, Zach Solan, David Horn
  -- and Eytan Ruppin

  Modelling Atypical Syntax Processing
  -- Michael S. C. Thomas and Martin Redington

  Combining Utterance-Boundary and Predictability Approaches
  to Speech Segmentation
  -- Aris Xanthos

  Workshop Organizer
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    William Gregory Sakas, City University of New York

  Program Committee
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  * Robert Berwick, MIT, USA
  * Antal van den Bosch, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
  * Ted Briscoe, University of Cambridge, UK
  * Damir Cavar, Indiana University, USA
  * Morten H. Christiansen, Cornell University, USA
  * Stephen Clark, University of Edinburgh, UK
  * James Cussens, University of York, UK
  * Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium and Tilburg ersity,
    The Netherlands
  * Jeffrey Elman, University of California, San Diego, USA
  * Gerard Kempen, Leiden University, The Netherlands and The Max Planck
    Institute, Nijmegen
  * Vincenzo Lombardo, University of Torino, Italy
  * Larry Moss, University of Indiana, USA
  * Miles Osborne, University of Edinburgh, UK
  * Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
  * Ivan Sag, Stanford University, USA
  * Jeffrey Siskind, Purdue University, USA
  * Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh, UK
  * Menno van Zaanen, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
  * Charles Yang, Yale University, USA

  Contact:
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  Psycho.Comp at hunter.cuny.edu
     or sakas at hunter.cuny.edu

  http://www.colag.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/psychocomp/



William Gregory Sakas, Ph.D.
Computer Science and Linguistics
Hunter College and the Graduate Center
City University of New York

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