LINGUIST List 17.3532

Wed Nov 29 2006

Confs: Computational Ling,Phonology/Netherlands

Editor for this issue: Jeremy Taylor <jeremylinguistlist.org>

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Directory         1.    Tamas Biro, Workshop on Computing and Phonology

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Message 1: Workshop on Computing and Phonology
Date: 29-Nov-2006
From: Tamas Biro <birotnytud.hu>
Subject: Workshop on Computing and Phonology


Workshop on Computing and Phonology

Date: 08-Dec-2006 - 08-Dec-2006 Location: Groningen, Netherlands Contact: Tamas Biro Contact Email: birotnytud.hu Meeting URL: http://www.let.rug.nl/~birot/comp-phonology.php

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Phonology

Meeting Description:

A workshop on computational aspects of phonology is held at the University of Groningen (RUG), the Netherlands, on December 8, 2006. For further information, please visit http://www.let.rug.nl/~birot/comp-phonology.php. The workshop is open to anyone, but we kindly ask you to register not later than December 4.

Program: 9:30 Opening

9:40 Tamas Biro (ACLC, Universiteit van Amsterdam): Simulated Annealing for Optimality Theory: A performance model for phonology

10:20 Bart Cramer and John Nerbonne (CLCG, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen): Scaling Minimal Generalization

11:00 Coffee

11:30 Gerhard Jäger (Universität Bielefeld): Exemplar dynamics and George Price's General Theory of Selection

12:10 Paul Boersma (ACLC, Universiteit van Amsterdam): The emergence of markedness

13:00 Lunch

14:30 Adam Albright (MIT, Cambridge, MA): Modeling gradient phonotactic well-formedness as grammatical competence

15:30 Closing and coffee