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Psychocomputational Models of Human Language Acquisition

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

Wednesday, June 29, 2005

9:10–9:30Opening Remarks
9:00–9:30The Input for Syntactic Acquisition: Solutions from Language Change Modeling
Lisa Pearl
9:30–10:00Simulating Language Change in the Presence of Non-Idealized Syntax
W. Garrett Mitchener
10:30–11:00Break
11:00–11:30Using Morphology and Syntax Together in Unsupervised Learning
Yu Hu, Irina Matveeva, John Goldsmith and Colin Sprague
11:30–12:00Refining the SED Heuristic for Morpheme Discovery: Another Look at Swahili
Yu Hu, Irina Matveeva, John Goldsmith and Colin Sprague
12:00–12:30A Connectionist Model of Language-Scene Interaction
Marshall R. Mayberry, Matthew W. Crocker and Pia Knoeferle
12:30–2:00Lunch
2:00–2:30A Second Language Acquisition Model Using Example Generalization and Concept Categories
Ari Rappoport and Vera Sheinman
2:30–3:30Invited Talk
 Item Based Constructions and the Logical Problem
Brian MacWhinney
3:30–4:00Break
4:00–4:30Statistics vs. UG in Language Acquisition: Does a Bigram Analysis Predict Auxiliary Inversion?
Xuân-Nga Cao Kam, Iglika Stoyneshka, Lidiya Tornyova, William Gregory Sakas and Janet Dean Fodor
4:30–5:00Climbing the Path to Grammar: A Maximum Entropy Model of Subject/Object Learning
Felice Dell’Orletta, Alessandro Lenci, Simonetta Montemagni and Vito Pirrelli
5:00–5:30The Acquisition and Use of Argument Structure Constructions: A Bayesian Model
Afra Alishahi and Suzanne Stevenson

Thursday, June 30, 2005

 Joint Session with CoNLL
9:00–9:50Invited talk: Mark Steedman
9:50–10:15Steps Toward Deep Lexical Acquisition
Sourabh Niyogi
10:15–10:40Intentional Context in Situated Natural Language Learning
Michael Fleischman and Deb Roy
 Remaining CoNLL sessions
11:10–12:25Morphology
2:10–2:50Learning methods and architectures
2:50–3:30Shared Task: Semantic Role Labeling
4:00–6:00Shared Task:Semantic Role Labeling (con’t)