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    Message 1: Psycho-computational Models of Human Language Acquisition

     Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 15:11:21 -0400 (EDT)
    From: sakas <sakashunter.cuny.edu>
    Subject: Psycho-computational Models of Human Language Acquisition


    Psycho-computational Models of Human Language Acquisition

    Date: 28-Aug-2004 - 28-Aug-2004 Location: Geneva, Switzerland Contact: William Sakas Contact Email: sakashunter.cuny.edu Meeting URL: http://www.colag.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/psychocomp

    Linguistic Sub-field: Computational Linguistics ,General Linguistics ,Linguistic Theories ,Phonology ,Psycholinguistics ,Text/Corpus Linguistics ,Cognitive Science ,Language Acquisition

    Meeting Description:

    This 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

    * 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

    http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/

    Workshop Description

    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 )

    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

    William Gregory Sakas, City University of New York 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 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:

    Psycho.Comphunter.cuny.edu or sakashunter.cuny.edu http://www.colag.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/psychocomp/