Workshop on Psychological and Computational Models of Reference Comprehension and Production

[Danielle Matthews]

The workshop welcomes submissions from developmental scientists!

Call for submissions

RefNet Workshop on Psychological and Computational Models of Reference
Comprehension and Production



Date: Sunday 31 Aug 2014

Location: School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK

http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab/refnet/



An informal research workshop will take place, with the aim of sharing the
current developments in the study of the production and comprehension of
referring expressions in different scientific disciplines such as
linguistics, cognitive science, psycholinguistics, computational
linguistics.



We invite submissions on all topics related to reference
production/comprehension. Specific topics include, but are not limited to:



-- social and contextual factors influencing reference production and
comprehension

-- cooperativeness and perspective-taking in reference production and
comprehension.

-- interaction between comprehension and production of referring expressions

-- the role of visual context in the production/comprehension of referring
expressions

-- psychologically plausible computational models of reference production
and comprehension

-- referential communication in interactive settings

-- referential communication in children

-- complex descriptions (e.g., quantified descriptions, relational
descriptions)

-- the use of vague predicates in referring expressions

-- referential over- and underspecification

-- realisation of referring expressions (including prosody, gesture, eye
gaze)

-- data-collection and experimental evaluation methods

-- the formal semantics and pragmatics of reference



Invited speakers:

Michael K. Tanenhaus, University of Rochester

Kees van Deemter, University of Aberdeen



Submissions:

Selection of posters and oral presentations will be based on 500-1000 word
abstracts including references. Abstracts, in PDF format, should be
submitted via the workshop website:
http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab/refnet/submission.html . Abstracts
will be reviewed anonymously, so please include a title but not authors.
Revised versions of accepted abstracts will be posted on the RefNet page.
There will be no printed proceedings.



Important Dates:

-- Monday 16th June: Submission deadline

-- Mid-July: Notifications of acceptance

-- Sunday 31st August: the workshop



Programme Committee (more to be announced):

Ellen Bard, Holly Branigan, Sarah Brown-Schmidt, Arash Eshghi, Kumiko
Fukumura, Simon Garrod, Albert Gatt, Marcus Guhe, Pat Healey, William S.
Horton, Julian Hough, Christine Howes, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Emiel
Krahmer, Gregory Mills, Paul Piwek, Ehud Reiter, Matthew Stone, Marc
Swerts, Roger van Gompel



Organisers:

Arash Eshghi (eshghi.a at gmail.com)

Kumiko Fukumura (kumiko.fukumura at strath.ac.uk)

Srini Janarthanam



Note:

The workshop takes place immediately after the RefNet summer school
Psychological and Computational Models of Language Production (24-31
August, Edinburgh) (
http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/k.vdeemter/pages/RefNet/events.html), but it
will be open to anyone, regardless of whether they take part in the summer
school. Both the workshop and the summer school are part of RefNet, a
research network funded by the UK's EPSRC.


-- 

Danielle Matthews
Department of Psychology
University of Sheffield
Sheffield S10 2TP
Tel: 00 44 114 222 6548
http://www.shef.ac.uk/psychology/staff/academic/danielle-matthews

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