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Directory         1.     Kathleen Hall , Information-Theoretic Approaches to Linguistics Message 1: Information-Theoretic Approaches to Linguistics Date: 16-Jun-2011 From: Kathleen Hall <LSAinfotheorybrutus.ling.ohio-state.edu> Subject: Information-Theoretic Approaches to Linguistics E-mail this message to a friend Information-Theoretic Approaches to Linguistics Date: 16-Jul-2011 - 17-Jul-2011 Location: Boulder, CO, USA Contact: Kathleen Hall Beth Hume Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: https://verbs.colorado.edu/LSA2011/workshops/WS5.html Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories Meeting Description: We are pleased to announce a two-day workshop on information-theoretic approaches to linguistics, to be held July 16-17, 2011, in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America's Summer Linguistics Institute. Note: There is no registration fee, but please pre-register by e-mailing your name and affiliation to lsainfotheoryling.osu.edu no later than July 1, 2011, so that we can plan for the number of attendees. For more information, please see: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/LSAinfotheory/ A wide range of research has shown that tools from information theory (e.g. information content/surprisal, entropy) are useful tools in addressing questions of linguistic interest. These range from predicting the targets and outcomes of phonological and syntactic processes, to explaining the cognitive bases for these processes, to evaluating models of linguistic data. This two-day NSF-funded workshop will bring together a number of researchers working on information-theoretic approaches to linguistics in an effort to share knowledge, tools, insights, and specific research findings. There will also be a tutorial on information theory for those not familiar with the approach. The tutorial will be followed by invited talks and a poster session. Updated Program: Saturday, July 16th 8:30-9:30 Registration & Coffee 9:00-9:30 Welcome & Overview 9:30-11:00 Information Theory for Linguists - A Tutorial by John Goldsmith 11:00-11:15 Break 11:15-12:15 Andrea Sims -- Information Theory and Paradigmatic Morphology 12:15-1:15 John Hale -- Information-Theoretic Approaches to Syntactic Processing 1:15-3:30 Lunch and Poster Session 3:30-4:30 Kathleen Currie Hall, Andy Wedel, and Adam Ussishkin -- Entropy and Phonological Contrast 4:30-5:30 Florian Jaeger & Roger Levy -- Surprise and Information Density in Sentence Processing and Speaker Choice 6:00-7:00 Social Hour Sunday, July 17th 8:30-9:00 Coffee 9:00-10:00 Jason Riggle -- The Role of Acoustic, Articulatory, and Distributional Similarity in Non-Local Dependencies 10:00-11:00 Petar Milin, Harald Baayen, Peter Hendrix, & Marco Marelli – From Nominal Case in Serbian to Prepositional Phrases in English: Modeling Exemplar and Prototype Effects without Exemplars and without Prototypes, Using Discriminative Learning 11:00-11:15 Break 12:15-12:15 Beth Hume, Fred Mailhot, & Rory Turnbull -- Quantifying Redundancy Relations among Distinctive Features 12:15-1:30 Lunch 1:30-2:30 John Goldsmith -- Learning Morphophonology from Unsupervised Learning of Morphology 2:30-4:00 Roundtable Discussion Posters: Sonia Barnes -- The Role of Frequency and Neighborhood Density in the Deletion of Intervocalic /d/ in Spanish First Conjugation Past Participles Uriel Cohen-Priva -- Information Utility Promotes Preservation Michael Collins -- Information Theory and Linearization Patterns of Phrasal Prepositional Verbs Robin Dodsworth -- The Role of Complexity in Dialect Contact Outcomes Richard Futrell & Michael Ramscar -- German Grammatical Gender Manages Nominal Entropy Sunghoon Hong -- An Information-Theoretic Account of the Epenthetic Vowel in Korean Blake Stephen Howald -- Information-Theoretic Perspectives on the Supervised Machine Learning of the Spatiotemporal Event Structure of Narrative Discourses Michael Ramscar & Richard Futrell -- The Predictive Function of Prenominal Adjectives Purnima Thakur -- Sibilants in Gujarati Phonology Tsz-Him Tsui -- An Information-Theoretic Account of Tonal Merger in Hong Kong Cantonese Marjolein van Egmond, Lizet van Ewijk, & Sergey Avrutin -- A New Theoretical Model for Word Finding Difficulties in Aphasic Patients Lizet van Ewijk -- Verb Retrieval in Non-Fluent Aphasia: An Information-Theoretic Approach Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 16-Jun-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.