[Corpora-List] Call for participation: EACL 2009 Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Acquisition

[Thierry Poibeau]

                 Call for participation
                  
                  
                  EACL-2009 Workshop on


 COGNITIVE ASPECTS OF COMPUTATIONAL LANGUAGE ACQUISITION 



             31 March 2009, Athens, Greece



Workshop Description
====================

This workshop is focused on the relevance of computational learning methods 
for research on human language acquisition. Developing and applying such 
computational techniques that can improve our understanding of human 
language acquisition will not only benefit cognitive sciences in general, 
but will also reflect back to NLP and place us in a better position to 
develop useful language models.

The workshop aims to bring together researchers from the diverse fields of 
NLP, machine learning, artificial intelligence, (psycho)linguistics, etc. 
who are interested in the relevance of computational techniques for 
understanding human language learning. The workshop is intended to bridge 
the gap between the computational and cognitive communities, promote 
knowledge and resource sharing, and help initiate interdisciplinary 
research projects. Success in this type of research requires close 
collaboration between NLP and cognitive scientists. To this end, 
interdisciplinary workshops can play a key role in advancing existing and 
initiating new research. This was demonstrated by some successful events 
like the previous edition of this workshop held at ACL 2007.

Workshop Programme
==================

- 9:20-9:30     Welcome

- 9:30-10:30 Invited Talk : "Conceptual Descriptions: Evidence from 
Corpora, the Mind, and the Brain", Massimo Poesio (University of Essex and 
University of Trento)

- 10:30-11:00   COFFEE BREAK

- 11:00-12:30 SESSION 2: Theoretical and practical aspects of language 
acquisition * 11:00-11:30 "Towards a formal view of corrective feedback", 
Staffan Larsson and Robin Cooper * 11:30-12:00 "A Collaborative Tool for 
the Computational Modelling of Child Language Acquisition", Kris Jack * 
12:00-12:30 "What's in a Message?", Stergos Afantenos and Nicolas Hernandez

- 12:30-14:00   LUNCH BREAK

14:00-15:00 Invited Talk : "Treebank Parsing and Knowledge of Language: A 
Cognitive Perspective", Robert Berwick (Massassuchets Institute of 
Technology, Joint work with Prof. Sandiway Fong, University of Arizona)

- 15:00-16:00   SESSION 3: Learnability and grammatical inference

* 15:00-15:30 "Another look at indirect negative evidence", Alexander Clark 
and Shalom Lappin * 15:30-16:00 "Categorizing Local Contexts as a Step in 
Grammatical Category Induction", Markus Dickinson and Charles Jochim

- 16:00-16:30   COFFEE BREAK

- 16:30-17:30   SESSION 4: Ecology of languages

* 16:30-17:00 "Darwinised Data-Oriented Parsing - Statistical NLP with 
added sex and death", Dave Cochran * 17:00-17:30 "Language Diversity across 
the Consonant Inventories: A Study in the Framework of Complex Networks", 
Monojit Choudhury, Animesh Mukherjee, Anupam Basu, Niloy Ganguly, Ashish 
Garg and Vaibhav Jalan



Workshop Chairs
===============

- Afra Alishahi
(University of Saarland, Germany)

- Thierry Poibeau
(CNRS and University Paris 13, France)

- Aline Villavicencio
(Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil and University of Bath, UK)


Address any queries regarding the workshop to:   cognitive2009 at gmail.com


Programme Committee
===================

- Colin J Bannard (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 
Germany) - Marco Baroni (University of Trento, Italy) - Robert C. Berwick 
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) - Jim Blevins (University of 
Cambridge, UK) - Rens Bod (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) - Antal 
van den Bosch (Tilburg University, The Netherlands) - Chris Brew (Ohio 
State University, USA) - Ted Briscoe (University of Cambridge, UK) - Robin 
Clark (University of Pennsylvania, USA) - Stephen Clark (University of 
Oxford, UK) - Matthew W. Crocker (Saarland University, Germany) - James 
Cussens (University of York, UK) - Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, 
Belgium and Tilburg University, The Netherlands) - Ted Gibson 
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) - Henriette Hendriks 
(University of Cambridge, UK) - Julia Hockenmaier (University of Illinois 
at Urbana-Champaign, USA) - Marco Idiart (Federal University of Rio Grande 
do Sul, Brazil) - Mark Johnson (Brown University, USA) - Aravind Joshi 
(University of Pennsylvania, USA) - Anna Korhonen (University of Cambridge, 
UK) - Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa, Italy) - Massimo Poesio 
(University of Trento, Italy) - Brechtje Post (University of Cambridge, UK) 
- Ari Rappoport (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) - Dan Roth 
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) - Kenji Sagae (University 
of Southern California, USA) - Sabine Schulte im Walde (University of 
Stuttgart, Germany) - Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh, UK) - Suzanne 
Stevenson (University of Toronto, Canada) - Patrick Sturt (University of 
Edinburgh, UK) - Bert Vaux (University of Wisconsin, USA) - Charles Yang 
(University of Pennsylvania, USA) - Menno van Zaanen (Macquarie University, 
Australia) - Michael Zock (LIF, CNRS, Marseille, France)



_______________________________________________
Corpora mailing list
Corpora at uib.no
http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora