17.3532, Confs: Computational Ling,Phonology/Netherlands

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LINGUIST List: Vol-17-3532. Wed Nov 29 2006. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 17.3532, Confs: Computational Ling,Phonology/Netherlands

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Date: 29-Nov-2006
From: Tamas Biro < birot at nytud.hu >
Subject: Workshop on Computing and Phonology 

	
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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:19:26
From: Tamas Biro < birot at nytud.hu >
Subject: Workshop on Computing and Phonology 
 

Workshop on Computing and Phonology 

Date: 08-Dec-2006 - 08-Dec-2006 
Location: Groningen, Netherlands 
Contact: Tamas Biro 
Contact Email: birot at nytud.hu 
Meeting URL: http://www.let.rug.nl/~birot/comp-phonology.php 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Phonology 

Meeting Description: 

A workshop on computational aspects of phonology is held at the University of
Groningen (RUG), the Netherlands, on December 8, 2006. For further information,
please visit http://www.let.rug.nl/~birot/comp-phonology.php. 
The workshop is open to anyone, but we kindly ask you to register not later than
December 4.

Program:
9:30 Opening 

9:40 Tamas Biro (ACLC, Universiteit van Amsterdam): 
 Simulated Annealing for Optimality Theory: A performance model for phonology 
 
10:20 Bart Cramer and John Nerbonne (CLCG, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen): 
 Scaling Minimal Generalization 
 
11:00 Coffee 

11:30 Gerhard Jäger (Universität Bielefeld): 
 Exemplar dynamics and George Price's General Theory of Selection 
 
12:10 Paul Boersma (ACLC, Universiteit van Amsterdam): 
 The emergence of markedness 
 
13:00 Lunch 

14:30 Adam Albright (MIT, Cambridge, MA): 
 Modeling gradient phonotactic well-formedness as grammatical competence 

15:30 Closing and coffee





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