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Call for Participation
Psycho-computational Models of Human Language Acquisition
A COLING 2004 Workshop Geneva Switzerland 28 August 2004
http://www.colag.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/psychocomp/
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Workshop Topic
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The workshop is devoted to psychologically-motivated computational models of
language acquisition. That is, models that are compatible with research in
psycholinguistics, developmental psychology and linguistics.
Invited Speakers
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* Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp and Tilburg University
* Elan Dresher, University of Toronto
* Jerome A. Feldman, University of California at Berkeley
* Charles D. Yang, Yale University
Registration
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http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/
Workshop Description
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How children acquire the grammar of their native language(s) is one of the
most beguiling open questions of modern science. The principal goal of this
workshop is to bring together researchers from diverse backgrounds who are
interested in the study of human language acquisition from a computational
perspective. Cross-discipline discussion will be encouraged. Presented
research draws computational linguistics, formal learning theory, machine
learning, artificial intelligence, linguistics, cognitive psychology and
psycholinguistics.
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. This begs the question, to what extent can a
psychologically plausible statistical learning strategy be successfully
exploited in a "full-blown" psycho-computational acquisition model?
Accepted Papers (full text and presentation schedule available at
http://www.colag.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/psychocomp/program.html )
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A Quantitative Evaluation of Naturalistic Models of Language
Acquisition; the Efficiency of the Triggering Learning
Algorithm Compared to a Categorial Grammar Learner
-- Paula Buttery
On Statistical Parameter Setting
-- Damir Cavar, Joshua Herring,Toshikazu Ikuta, Paul Rodrigues
-- and Giancarlo Schrementi
Putting Meaning into Grammar Learning
-- Nancy Chang
Grammatical Inference and First Language Acquisition
-- Alexander Clark
A Developmental Model of Syntax Acquisition in the Construction
Grammar Framework with Cross-Linguistic Validation in English
and Japanese
-- Peter Ford Dominey and Toshio Inui
On the Acquisition of Phonological Representations
-- B. Elan Dresher
Statistics Learning and Universal Grammar: Modeling Word
Segmentation
-- Timothy Gambell and Charles Yang
Modelling Syntactic Development in a Cross-Linguistic
Context
-- Fernand Gobet, Daniel Freudenthal and Julian M. Pine
A Computational Model of Emergent Simple Syntax:
Supporting the Natural Transition from the One-Word Stage to
the Two-Word Stage
-- Kris Jack, Chris Reed and Annalu Waller
On a Possible Role for Pronouns in the Acquisition of Verbs
-- Aarre Laakso and Linda Smith
Some Tests of an Unsupervised Model of Language Acquisition
-- Bo Pedersen, Shimon Edelman, Zach Solan, David Horn
-- and Eytan Ruppin
Modelling Atypical Syntax Processing
-- Michael S. C. Thomas and Martin Redington
Combining Utterance-Boundary and Predictability Approaches
to Speech Segmentation
-- Aris Xanthos
Workshop Organizer
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William Gregory Sakas, City University of New York
Program Committee
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* 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 ersity,
The Netherlands
* Jeffrey Elman, University of California, San Diego, 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
Contact:
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Psycho.Comp@hunter.cuny.edu
or sakas@hunter.cuny.edu
http://www.colag.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/psychocomp/
William Gregory Sakas, Ph.D.
Computer Science and Linguistics
Hunter College and the Graduate Center
City University of New York
Voice: (212) 772.5211
Fax: (212) 772.5219
Email: sakas@hunter.cuny.edu
WWW: http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/cs/Faculty/Sakas/
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