[Corpora-List] Call for Papers: Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL), August 2013

[Levy, Roger]

Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL-2013)

A workshop to be held August 8, 2013 at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) in Sofia, Bulgaria

          http://cmcl.ucsd.edu/

*** CALL FOR PAPERS ***

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

This workshop provides a venue for work in computational psycholinguistics. ACL Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Martin Kay described this topic as "build[ing] models of language that reflect in some interesting way on the ways in which people use language." The 2013 workshop follows in the tradition of several previous meetings

    the computational psycholinguistics meeting at CogSci in Berkeley in 1997
    the Incremental Parsing workshop at ACL 2004
    the first three CMCL workshops at ACL 2010, ACL 2011, and NAACL-HLT 2012

in inviting contributions that apply methods from computational linguistics to problems in the cognitive modeling of any and all natural language abilities.  

SCOPE AND TOPICS 

The workshop invites a broad spectrum of work in the cognitive science of language, at all levels of analysis from sounds to discourse. Topics include, but are not limited to

 * incremental parsers for diverse grammar formalisms
 * derivations of quantitative measures of comprehension difficulty, or predictions regarding generalization in language learning
 * stochastic models of factors encouraging one production or interpretation over its competitors
 * models of semantic/pragmatic interpretation, including psychologically realistic notions of word meaning, phrase meaning, composition, and pragmatic inference
 * models and empirical analysis of the relationship between mechanistic psycholinguistic principles and pragmatic or semantic adaptation, usually in dialogue
 * models of human language acquisition and/or adaptation in a changing linguistic environment
 * models of linguistic information propagation and language change in communication networks

Submissions are especially welcomed that combine computational modeling work with empirical data (e.g., corpora or experiments) to test theoretical questions about the nature of human linguistic acquisition, comprehension, and/or production.

SUBMISSIONS

This call solicits full papers reporting original and unpublished research that combines cognitive modeling and computational linguistics. Accepted papers are expected to be presented at the workshop and will be published in the workshop proceedings. They should emphasize obtained results rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. A paper accepted for presentation at the workshop must not be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. If essentially identical papers are submitted to other conferences or workshops as well, this fact must be indicated at submission time. No submission should be longer than necessary, up to a maximum 8 pages plus two additional pages containing references.

To facilitate double-blind reviewing, submitted manuscripts should not include any identifying information about the authors.

Submissions must be formatted using ACL 2013 style files available at

        http://acl2013.org/site/call.html

Contributions should be submitted in PDF via the submission site:

        https://www.softconf.com/acl2013/CMCL2013/

The submission deadline is 11:59PM Pacific Time on April 26, 2013.

BEST STUDENT PAPER

The best paper whose first author is a student will receive a Best Student Paper award, sponsored by the Cognitive Science Society.  

PUBLICATION

All accepted CMCL papers will be published in the workshop proceedings as is customary at ACL conferences.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline:        26 April  2013
Notification of acceptance: 24 May    2013
Camera-ready versions due:   7 June   2013
Workshop:                    8 August 2013

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Roger Levy, Department of Linguistics, University of California at San Diego
Vera Demberg, Multimodal Computing and Interaction Cluster of Excellence, Saarland University

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Afra Alishahi          Tilburg University
Klinton Bicknell       UC San Diego
Matthew Crocker        Saarbruecken University
Brian Dillon           University of Massachussetts
Afsaneh Fazly          University of Toronto
Naomi Feldman          University of Maryland
Michael C. Frank       Stanford University
Stefan Frank           Radboud University Nijmegen
Sharon Goldwater       Edinburgh University
Noah Goodman           Stanford University
John T. Hale           Cornell University
T. Florian Jaeger      University of Rochester
Frank Keller           University of Edinburgh
Jeffrey Heinz          University of Delaware
Richard L. Lewis       University of Michigan
Brian Edmond Murphy    CMU
Timothy John O'Donnell MIT
Sebastian Padó         University of Heidelberg
Ulrike Pado            Hochschule fuer Technik, Stuttgart
Steven Piantadosi      University of Rochester
David Reitter          Penn State University
William Schuler        The Ohio State University
Nathaniel Smith        University of Edinburgh
Ed Stabler             UCLA
Whitney Tabor          University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratories
Hal Tily               Nuance


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