[Corpora-List] Deadline EXTENSION: Psycho-computational Models of Human Language Acquisition

From: William Gregory Sakas (sakas@hunter.cuny.edu)
Date: Sun Apr 04 2004 - 14:16:42 MET DST

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                             FINAL Call for Papers
     
              Psycho-computational Models of Human Language Acquisition
     
                           *** DEADLINE EXTENSION ***
     
                       New Submission deadline: 15 April
     
     
            A COLING 2004 Workshop Geneva Switzerland 28 August 2004
     
     
                  http://www.colag.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/psychocomp/
     
     
    Workshop Topic
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    The workshop will be devoted to psychologically motivated computational
    models of language acquisition -- models that are compatible with research in
    psycholinguistics, developmental psychology and linguistics -- with
    particular emphasis on the acquisition of syntax.
     
    Invited panel: Learning Biases in Language Acquisition Models
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      Walter Daelemans, Antwerp and Tilburg
      Charles D. Yang, Yale
     
    Invited speaker
    ---------------
      Elan Dresher, Toronto
     
     
    Workshop Description and Motivation
    -----------------------------------
     
    In recent decades there has been a great deal of successful research
    that applies computational learning techniques to emerging natural language
    technologies, along with many meetings, conferences and workshops in
    which to present such research. However, there have been few venues in which
    psycho-computational models of how humans acquire their native language(s) are
    the focus.
     
    Psycho-computational models of language acquisition are of particular
    interest in light of recent results in developmental psychology which suggest
    that very young infants are adept at detecting statistical patterns in an
    audible input stream. However, this begs the question of whether or not a
    psychologically plausible statistical learning strategy can be successfully
    exploited in a full-blown psycho-computational acquisition model. Although
    there has been a significant amount of presented research targeted at modeling
    the acquisition of word categories and phonology, research aimed at
    psychologically motivated modeling of syntax acquisition has just begun to
    emerge.
     
    The principal goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers who
    work within computational linguistics, formal learning theory, machine
    learning, artificial intelligence, linguistics, psycholinguistics and other
    fields, who have created or are investigating computational models of language
    acquisition. In particular, it will provide a forum for establishing
    links and common themes between diverse paradigms. Although research which
    directly addresses the acquisition of syntax is strongly encouraged, related
    studies that inform research on the acquisition of syntax are also welcome.
     
    Papers are invited on, but not limited to, the following topics:
     
    * Acquisition models that contain a parsing component
    * Models that have a cross-linguistic or bilingual perspective
    * Models that address the question of learning bias in terms of innate
      linguistic knowledge versus statistical regularity in the input
    * Models that can acquire natural language word-order
    * Hybrid models that cross established paradigms
    * Models that directly make use of or can be used to evaluate existing
      linguistic or developmental theories in a computational framework
      (e.g. the principles & parameters framework or Optimality Theory)
    * Empirical models that make use of child-directed corpora
    * Formal models that incorporate psychologically plausible constraints
    * Comparative surveys, across multiple paradigms, that critique
      previously published studies
     
    Paper Length: Submissions should be no longer than 8 pages (A4 or the
    equivalent). High-quality short papers or extended abstracts of 4 to 5
    pages are encouraged. Submission and format details are below.
     
    Lunch session: Word-order acquisition
    --------------------------------------
     
    The topic of this session will be the acquisition of different natural
    language word-orders. The workshop will provide a common test-bed of abstract
    sentence patterns from word order divergent languages. The shared data contains
    the sentence patterns and cross-linguistic fully-specified parses for each
    sentence pattern. The patterns are available at:
     
      www.colag.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/grammar/data/allsentences.zip
     
    General information and a web interface for perusing the data can be
    found at:
     
      www.colag.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/grammar
     
    Due to the limited amount of time available to work with novel data,
    pilot studies are encouraged. The session will consist of short presentations
    and roundtable discussion. Submissions for this session are limited to 2
    pages. Those who may be interested in submitting to this session should contact
    the workshop organizer before the submission deadline for further details.
     
    Dates of submissions
     
      Submission deadline: 15 April 2004
      Acceptance notification: 14 May 2004
      Camera-ready deadline: 10 June 2004
      Workshop date: 28 August 2004
     
    Workshop Organizer
     
      William Gregory Sakas, City University of New York (sakas@hunter.cuny.edu)
     
    Program Committee
     
    * Robert Berwick, MIT, USA
    * Antal van den Bosch, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
    * Ted Briscoe, University of Cambridge, UK
    * Damir Cavar, Indiana University, USA
    * Morten H. Christiansen, Cornell University, USA
    * Stephen Clark, University of Edinburgh, UK
    * James Cussens, University of York, UK
    * Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium and Tilburg University,
      The Netherlands
    * Jeffrey Elman, University of California, San Diego, USA
    * Janet Dean Fodor, City University of New York, USA
    * Gerard Kempen, Leiden University, The Netherlands and The Max Planck
      Institute, Nijmegen
    * Vincenzo Lombardo, University of Torino, Italy
    * Larry Moss, University of Indiana, USA
    * Miles Osborne, University of Edinburgh, UK
    * Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
    * Ivan Sag, Stanford University, USA
    * Jeffrey Siskind, Purdue University, USA
    * Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh, UK
    * Menno van Zaanen, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
    * Charles Yang, Yale University, USA
     
     
    Paper Submission
    ----------------
     
    Length: Submissions should be no more than 8 pages (A4 or equivalent).
    High-quality short papers or extended abstracts of 4 to 5 pages are
    encouraged. Submissions to the lunch session on word-order should be no more
    than 2 pages. (If accepted, final camera ready versions may be up to 8 pages or
    5 pages for the word-order submissions.)
     
    Layout: Papers must conform to COLING 2004 formatting guidelines,
    available at:
     
      http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/coling2004downloads.html
     
    Electronic Submission: All submissions will be by email. Reviews will
    be blind, so be careful not to disclose authorship or affiliation. PDF
    submissions are preferred and will be required for the final camera-ready copy.
     
    Submissions should be sent as an attachment to:
      Psycho.Comp@hunter.cuny.edu.
      The subject line must contain the single word: Submission.
     
    Please be sure to include accurate contact information in the body of
    the email.
     
    Contact:
     
    Psycho.Comp@hunter.cuny.edu
       or sakas@hunter.cuny.edu
     
    http://www.colag.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/psychocomp/
     



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