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Subject: 6.1555, Confs: Language Processing (Amlap programme)
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Date: Fri, 03 Nov 1995 17:51:15 GMT
From: amlap at cogsci.ed.ac.uk (amlap conference)
Subject: Amlap Programme
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Date: Fri, 03 Nov 1995 17:51:15 GMT
From: amlap at cogsci.ed.ac.uk (amlap conference)
Subject: Amlap Programme
*** PLEASE POST *** PLEASE POST *** PLEASE POST *** PLEASE POST ***
AMLaP-95 Conference
"ARCHITECTURES AND MECHANISMS FOR LANGUAGE PROCESSING"
Final Programme Announcement
Call for Participation
1-2 DECEMBER 1995
CARLTON HIGHLAND HOTEL
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND
Sponsored by:
HUMAN COMMUNICATION RESEARCH CENTRE
UNIVERSITIES OF EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW
CENTRE FOR COGNITIVE SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
Invited speakers:
Colin Brown, Max Planck Institut fur Psycholinguistik
Charles Clifton, Jr., University of Massachussets, Amherst
Lyn Frazier, University of Massachussets, Amherst
Don Mitchell, University of Exeter
Mike Tanenhaus, University of Rochester
This announcement provides the programme for the Architectures and
Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) conference, which will be
held in Edinburgh, on Friday 1 December and Saturday 2 December, 1995.
The aim of this conference is to bring experimental and computational
psycholinguists together to discuss the architectures and mechanisms of
the human language processor, and their empirical consequences.
Conference Chairs:
Matt Crocker
Martin Pickering
*** CONFERENCE PROGRAMME ***
Day One
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8:15 - 9:00am Registration
9:00 - 9:10am Opening Remarks
9:10 - 10:10am Invited Speaker: Don Mitchell (Exeter)
Tuned Depth-First Parsing
10:10 - 10:40am Matt Traxler & Martin Pickering (Glasgow)
Ambiguity Resolution in Sentence Processing: Simplicity
or Likelihood?
10:40 - 11:10am CoffeeBreak
11:10 - 11:40am Barbara Hemforth, Lars Koniecny, Christoph Scheepers (Freiburg)
Syntactic Attachment and Anaphor Resolution: The Two
Sides of Relative Clause Attachment
11:40 - 12:10am Sigrid Lipka (Sussex)
Semantic Effects when Reading Sentences with Early/Late
Closure Ambiguities
12:10 - 12:40pm Gerry Altmann (Sussex)
Late Closure in Context: Some Consequences for Parsimony
12:40 - 2:30pm Buffet Lunch & Poster Session
2:30 - 3:30pm Invited Speaker: Chuck Clifton (UMass)
Evaluating Models of Human Sentence Processing
3:30 - 4:00pm Paul Gorrell (MPI, Leipzig)
Structural Factors in First-Pass Parsing and Reanalysis
4:00 - 4:30pm Coffee Break
4:30 - 5:00pm Richard Lewis (Ohio State)
The Structural Garden Path Hypothesis: A Point of
Convergence in Recent Successful Garden Path Theories
5:00 - 5:30pm Angela Friederici (MPI, Leipzig)
Event-Related Brain Potentials Reflect the Time Course
of Syntactic and Semantic Processing During Word Integration
5:30 - 6:00pm Break
6:00 - 7:00pm Invited Speaker: Colin Brown (MPI, Nijmegen)
On the Neurobiology of Language Processing:
Implications for the Human Language Processor
Day Two
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9:00 - 10:00am Invited Speaker: Michael Tanenhaus (Rochester)
Modelling Discourse Context Effects: A Multiple
Constraints Approach
10:00 - 10:30am Paola Merlo & Susanne Stevenson (Geneva/Rutgers)
The Role of Structural Complexity in Processing Reduced
Relative Constructions
10:30 - 11:00am Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30am Steffan Corley & Matt Crocker (Edinburgh)
Lexical Co-occurrence Frequencies in a Modular HSPM.
11:30 - 12:00am Jamie Henderson (Exeter)
Constituency, Context, and Connectionism in Syntactic Parsing
12:00 - 12:30pm Wayne Murray & Claire Reilly (Dundee)
Distant Relatives
12:30 - 2:30pm Buffet Lunch & Poster Session
2:30 - 3:00pm Amit Almor (USC)
The Discourse Function of NP Anaphors
3:00 - 3:30pm Linda Moxey, Tony Sanford, & Kevin Paterson (Glasgow)
Negation and Complement Set Focus
3:30 - 4:00pm William Marslen-Wilson & Gareth Gaskell (Birkbeck)
Perceptual Experience And Cognitive Architecture
4:00 - 4:30pm Coffee Break
4:30 - 5:00pm Marica Di Vincenzi (CNR, Rome)
Syntactic Analysis in Sentence Comprehension: Some
Evidence from Italian
5:00 - 6:00pm Invited Speaker: Lyn Frazier (UMass)
On Interpretation: Minimal Lowering
For a complete list, including the poster titles, see our web page:
>>> http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~amlap/ <<<
*** REGISTRATION & ACCOMMODATION ***
REGISTRATION
The conference will be held at the Carlton Highland Hotel in the
heart of Edinburgh. Registrations fees are shown below and include
attendance of the conference, lunch on both days, and a copy of all
abstracts being presented.
| by 20 Nov | after 20 Nov
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Regular: | 67.50 | 80.00
Student: | 37.50 | 50.00
To register, please send your payment (as outlined below), and a cover
letter stating that you wish to register for the AMLaP-95 conference,
and include your full name, affiliation, address, phone, fax, and
e-mail. Students must also include proof of student status. This
should be sent to:
AMLaP-95
Human Communication Research Centre
2 Buccleuch Place
Edinburgh, EH8 9LW
United Kingdom
PAYMENT:
1. Cheques should be drawn on a British bank in pounds sterling, and
made payable to "The University of Edinburgh".
2. Direct Transfers should be sent to:
Edinburgh University Account - 00919680
Bank of Scotland
32a Chambers Street
Edinburgh
Sort Code 80-02-24
Transfers must mention Amlap A/c 265GG00009
3 We are able to accept payment from a variety of credit cards (Visa,
Mastercard, Switch, and Delta). Payments made by credit card will
incur an additional charge of 2% of the total amount due. If you
wish to pay by credit card please complete the following form, and
send it to us by post (we need a real signature):
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Name:
Address to which the card is registered:
Card type: (Visa, MC, Switch, Delta):
Card number:
Valid from: Expiry date:
Amount due:
Administration charge (2%):
Total amount to be charged to card:
Signature:
Date:
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ACCOMMODATION
1 Accommodation is also available at the Carlton Highland Hotel, the
conference venue. This is one of Edinburgh's top hotels, and we
have arranged a special conference rate of #65 B&B single
occupancy, per night. To book a room contact the hotel directly,
and mention the AMLaP conference:
The Carlton Highland Hotel
North Bridge, Edinburgh EH1
Phone: +44 131 556 7277
Fax: +44 131 556 2691
2 Finally, there are numerous B&Bs and Guest Houses in Edinburgh, for
those seeking less expensive accommodation. We can provide a list
upon request, but please check the web page first, which has full
details.
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http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~amlap/ (Check here first!)
email: amlap at cogsci.ed.ac.uk
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