[LFG] CfP: First Quantitative Morphology Meeting

[J P Blevins]

(With apologies for cross-posting.)

CfP: First Quantitative Morphology Meeting (QMM1)

University of Belgrade, 11 July - 15 July 2015

This meeting will provide a forum for research on quantitative approaches to the description and analysis of morphological phenomena in natural language. The term 'morphology' is construed broadly, covering all types of form variation. The class of quantitative approaches is equally broad, including (but not limited to):

-information-theoretic approaches, discriminative and Bayesian learning models,
-simulation-based approaches, connectionist models, vector-based semantic models, etc.

The meeting will consist of a two-day conference on quantitative approaches to morphology, followed by three days of tutorials devoted to topics, methods and tools relevant to current quantitative models.

Conference website: http://iqma.xyz/cfp.html

Submission Deadlines: 31 March 2015
Notification of Acceptance: 30 April 2015
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Conference

11 – 12 July 2015

Invited Speakers:

Harald Baayen (Tübingen/Alberta)
Aleksandar Kostić (Belgrade)
Vito Pirrelli (CNR, Pisa)
Csaba Pléh (CEU, Budapest)

Abstracts are solicited in the following categories:

1. Talk (15 minutes plus 5 minutes for discussion),
2. Poster (for presentation in a poster session),
3. Talk/Poster: For consideration as talk or poster.

Anonymous abstracts in PDF format, consisting of at most two pages of content (excluding references) should be submitted via the EasyChair conference link: <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qmm1>.
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Tutorials

13 - 15 July 2015

Applications for the tutorial sessions are also open:

Courses

Information Theory 
Learning Theory (General/Machine/Bayesian) 
Linguistic morphology 
NDL and vector semantics 
Practical introduction to R/Python/Corpora 
Simulations 

Schedule

13 July 2015

9:00 - 11:00	Practical introduction to R/Python/Corpora
11:30 - 13:30	Linguistic morphology
15:00 - 18:00	The discriminative brain

14 July 2015

9:00 - 11:00	Practical introduction to R/Python/Corpora
11:30 - 13:30	Information Theory
15:00 - 18:00	Learning Theory (General/Machine/Bayesian)

15 July 2015

9:00 - 11:00	Practical introduction to R/Python/Corpora
11:30 - 13:30	Simulations
15:00 - 18:00	NDL and vector semantics


These tutorials are designed primarily to provide an opportunity for students, postdocs and early career researchers to familiarize themselves and, hopefully, to engage with current quantitative research paradigms.

Interested applicants should send a current CV and description of research interests to: qmm1 at iqma.xyz