Conference on Computational Psycholinguistics
CPL '97
August 10-12, 1997
Berkeley, California
In Conjunction with Cognitive Science 1997
Sponsored by the
Cognitive Science Society
International Computer Science Institute
Institute for Cognitive Science, University of Colorado
Psychology Department, University of Chicago
Institute for Cognitive Studies, UC Berkeley
******* Invited Speakers ******
Jeff Elman
Ted Gibson
Mark Seidenberg
Paul Smolensky
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This conference is intended to bring together researchers who work on
psychologically motivated computational models of human language. We
solicit contributions on models of linguistic processing, acquisition,
or representation at every level: phonetic, phonological,
morphological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic. The goal of the
conference is to build bridges between computationally oriented
researchers who have focused on different aspects of human language
processing.
AREAS OF INTEREST:
We solicit extended abstracts for oral or poster presentations on
psychologically motivated computational models of human language
processing, or empirical or theoretical results bearing on such
models. Papers/posters may concern any aspect of human language
processing, including but not limited to:
phonetic, phonological, or morphological processing
lexical access
acquisition of phonology or morphology
acquisition of syntax and semantics
syntactic parsing
semantic and pragmatic interpretation, text understanding
conversation (e.g. turn taking, pauses, discourse cues)
generation
lexical choice
prosody
disambiguation
Authors are urged to write for computationally literate researchers
that may not be in their own subfield. We hope the conference will
afford people an opportunity to present work in progress for feedback,
and to get ideas and epiphanies from other computational or
psychological researchers with different backgrounds. To facilitate
the interchange of ideas, the schedule will set aside a significant
amount of time for discussion, as well as an outing, probably to Napa
for winetasting.
SUBMISSION FORMAT AND DATES:
The submission should consist of a title/identification page plus an
abstract.
The title page should contain the title, author(s), affiliation(s),
and the submitting author's mailing address, telephone number, fax
number and e-mail address, as well as a preference for an ORAL
PRESENTATION or a POSTER PRESENTATION. Please note that oral
presentations and posters will be considered to be of equal status at
this conference; as a result, they will be reviewed equally, and will
have equal chances of appearing in any subsequent publication. In
order to help place oral and poster presentations on an equal footing,
both poster and oral presenters will give 2-3 minute oral summary
"previews" of their presentations. However, authors may not get their
first choice of presentation method because of scheduling conflicts.
The actual abstract should be 2-3 pages long, in sufficient detail to
allow substantive evaluation. It should not contain the authors'
names or addresses, as reviewing will be blind. Furthermore,
self-references that reveal the authors' identity (e.g. "We
previously showed (Chiu, 1991)...") should be avoided. Instead use
references like "Chiu previously showed (Chiu, 1991) ...".
Submissions by e-mail are STRONGLY encouraged. Acceptable formats for
electronic submissions include, in order of preference:
1) HTML
2) Postscript (e.g. from LaTeX)
3) ASCII (plain text)
A sample HTML skeleton abstract form which may be downloaded and
copied, as well as other submission details, are included on our
website:
http://www.ccp.uchicago.edu/cpl
We expect that some or all of the submissions will be published in
either a conference or a themed volume. Submissions for publication
will be full-length papers, and will themselves be reviewed at a later
date. Please keep checking the web page for further information on
publishing plans.
SCHEDULE:
Deadline for receiving abstracts: Feb 15, 1997
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Information on acceptance sent out: April 1, 1997
Conference Aug 10-12, 1997
SUBMISSION ADDRESS:
For electronic submissions (preferred):
For hardcopy submissions (dispreferred) , either:
CPL '97
c/o Prof. Dan Jurafsky
Department of Linguistics
University of Colorado,
Boulder, CO 80309-0295 USA
or
CPL '97
c/o Prof. Terry Regier
Department of Psychology
University of Chicago
5848 S. University Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637 USA
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Sessions will be organized and contributions will be reviewed by the
program committee:
Dan Jurafsky, University of Colorado (Co-chair)
Terry Regier, University of Chicago (Co-chair)
Diane Bradley, CUNY
Michael Brent, Johns Hopkins University
Walter Daelemans, University of Tilburg
Gary Dell, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Mark Ellison, University of Edinburgh
Jerry Feldman, ICSI / UC Berkeley
Michael Gasser, Indiana University
John Goldsmith, University of Chicago
Gene Gragg, University of Chicago
Mary Hare, UC San Diego
Marti Hearst, Xerox PARC
Jamie Henderson, University of Exeter
Julia Hirschberg, AT&T Bell Labs
Ron Kaplan, Xerox PARC, Stanford University
Gerard Kempen, NIAS
Pat Langley, Stanford University
Brian MacWhinney, Carnegie-Mellon University
Gary Marcus, University of Massachusetts
Mitch Marcus, University of Pennsylvania
Don Mitchell, University of Exeter
Howard Nusbaum, University of Chicago
Kim Plunkett, Oxford University
Robert Port, Indiana University
Philip Resnik, University of Maryland
Ardi Roelofs, Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen
Stephanie Seneff, MIT
Lokendra Shastri, ICSI (Berkeley)
Richard Shillcock, University of Edinburgh
Liz Shriberg, SRI International
Jeff Mark Siskind, University of Vermont
Koenraad de Smedt, University of Bergen
Michael Spivey-Knowlton, Cornell University
Suzanne Stevenson, Rutgers University
Oliviero Stock, IRST, Trento
Virginia Teller, CUNY
Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI / University of Saarbruecken
Nigel Ward, University of Tokyo
FURTHER INFORMATION:
For further information please contact Dan and Terry at