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Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Acquisition

Friday, June 29, whole day

  Lounge 11
8:55–9:00 Opening Remarks
9:00–9:45 Invited Talk by Suzanne Stevenson
9:45–10:15 A Linguistic Investigation into Unsupervised DOP
Rens Bod
10:15–10:45 Using Classifier Features for Studying the Effect of Native Language on the Choice of Written Second Language Words
Oren Tsur and Ari Rappoport
10:45-11:15 Morning Coffee Break
11:15–11:45 Phon 1.2: A Computational Basis for Phonological Database Elaboration and Model Testing
Yvan Rose, Gregory Hedlund, Rod Byrne, Todd Wareham and Brian MacWhinney
11:45–12:15 High-accuracy Annotation and Parsing of CHILDES Transcripts
Kenji Sagae, Eric Davis, Alon Lavie, Brian MacWhinney and Shuly Wintner
12:15–12:45 I will shoot your shopping down and you can shoot all my tins—Automatic Lexical Acquisition from the CHILDES Database
Paula Buttery and Anna Korhonen
12:45-14:15 Lunch
14:15–14:45 A Cognitive Model for the Representation and Acquisition of Verb Selectional Preferences
Afra Alishahi and Suzanne Stevenson
14:45–15:15 ISA meets Lara: An incremental word space model for cognitively plausible simulations of semantic learning
Marco Baroni, Alessandro Lenci and Luca Onnis
15:15–15:45 Simulating the acquisition of object names
Alessio Plebe, Vivian De La Cruz and Marco Mazzone
15:45-16:15 Afternoon Break
16:15–16:45 Rethinking the syntactic burst in young children
Christophe Parisse
16:45–17:15 The Topology of Synonymy and Homonymy Networks
James Gorman and James Curran
17:15–17:45 The Benefits of Errors: Learning an OT Grammar with a Structured Candidate Set
Tamas Biro
17:45–18:15 Learning to interpret novel noun-noun compounds: evidence from a category learning experiment
Barry Devereux and Fintan Costello
18:15–18.20 Closing Remarks
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