13.3125, Confs: Language and Information

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Date:  Wed, 27 Nov 2002 14:49:46 +0000
From:  bnevin at cisco.com
Subject:  Language and Information Into the 21st Century, PA USA

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Date:  Wed, 27 Nov 2002 14:49:46 +0000
From:  bnevin at cisco.com
Subject:  Language and Information Into the 21st Century, PA USA

The Legacy of Zellig Harris: Language and Information Into the 21st Century

Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Date: 17-Jan-2003
Web Site: http://informatics.cpmc.columbia.edu/zellig/
Contact Person: Laurel Sweeney
Meeting Email: laurels at central.cis.upenn.edu
Linguistic Subfield(s): General Linguistics

Meeting Description:

A Symposium at The University of Pennsylvania celebrating recent work
and a new publication carrying forward some of the lines of research
initiated by Zellig Harris, with presentations by Richard Oehrle,
Aravind Joshi, Naomi Sager, Stephen Johnson, Fernando Pereira, Elissa
Newport, Anthony Kroch, Lila Gleitman, John Trueswell, Pieter Seuren,
Francis Lin, Paul Mattick, and Thomas Ryckman. The Legacy of Zellig
Harris:
          Language and Information into the 21st Century
          A Symposium at The University of Pennsylvania
          Celebrating Recent Work and a New Publication
     Co-sponsored by IRCS, CIS, the Department of Linguistics
                  & John Benjamins Publishing

Date: 17 January 2003
Time: 8:30-6:00, reception to follow
Location: Bodek Hall (Perelman Quad, Houston Hall)
Contact: Laurel Sweeney <laurels at central.cis.upenn.edu>

Program

 8:45   Welcome and Introductory Remarks
 9:00   1 Harris's categorial grammar
          Richard Oehrle
 9:25     Discussion
 9:30   2 How much complexity is needed for language description?
          Aravind Joshi, CIS, Penn
 9:55     Discussion
10:00   Break ...............
10:15   3 From text to information by computer
          Naomi Sager (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences)
10:40     Discussion
10:45   4 Modeling information content by minimum grammatical description
          Stephen Johnson, Columbia
11:10     Discussion
11:15   5 Formal grammar, information theory, and learning theory
          Fernando Pereira, Chair, CIS, Penn
11:40     Discussion
11:45   Break ...............
12:00   Keynote: Statistical language learning: Blending new and old
        approaches to language acquisition
        Elissa Newport, Psychology, U. Rochester
12:45     Discussion
 1:00   Lunch ...............
 2:00   6 Distributional evidence, imperfect learning, and language change
          Anthony Kroch, Chair, Linguistics, Penn
 2:25     Discussion
 2:30   7 Language learning without maturation
          Lila Gleitman, Psychology
 2:55     Discussion
 3:00   8 Humans do it too: Use of lexical statistics in a probabilistic parsing system
          John Trueswell, Psychology
 3:25     Discussion
 3:30   Break ...............
 3:45   9 Harris and Generative Semantics vindicated: The case of German V-clusters
          Pieter Seuren, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics,
          Nijmegen, Netherlands
 4:10     Discussion
 4:15  10 Linguistic Philosophy vs. Linguistic Science
          Francis Lin, Philosophy, St Hugh's College, Oxford;
          Computer Science, University of London
 4:40     Discussion
 4:45  11 The syntax of science and the science of syntax
          Paul Mattick, Philosophy, Adelphi University
 5:00     Discussion
 5:05  12 Reflections on the mathematization of natural language
          Thomas Ryckman, Philosophy, U.C. Berkeley
 5:30     Discussion
 5:35     Reception

The publication being celebrated:

The Legacy of Zellig Harris: Language and information into the 21st century
Volume 1. Philosophy of science, syntax, and semantics
Edited by Bruce Nevin
CILT 228

Volume 2. Computability of language and computer applications
Edited by Bruce Nevin and Stephen Johnson
CILT 229

Forthcoming in December 2002, by John Benjamins Publishing.

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