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PsychoCompLA-2007   

 

August 1st at CogSci-2007 – Nashville, Tennessee

 

Abstracts and Presentation Schedule

 

 

8:20-8:25

Opening Remarks

 

8:25-9:05

The next challenges in unsupervised language acquisition: Dependencies and complex sentences

 

Shimon Edelman, Cornell University

9:05-9:45

Learnable representations of languages: Something old and something new

 

Alex Clark, Royal Holloway University College London

9:45-9:50

Semantic heads for grammar induction

 

Andrew Olney, Institute for Intelligent Systems, University of Memphis

9:50-9:55

Modeling the Development of Bilingual and Second Language Reading  

 

Nicole Sager, Seth Herd & Eliana Colunga, University of Colorado Boulder

9:55-10:00

Distributional models of syntactic category acquisition: A comparative analysis

 

Sharon Goldwater, Stanford University

10:00-10:30

Break

10:30-11:00

A computational model of learning verb subclasses in natural L1 acquisition

 

Misha Becker & W. Garrett Mitchener, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill & College of Charleston

11:00-11:30

Selective attention and Darwinised data-oriented parsing

 

David Cochran

11:30-12:10

The Great (Penn Treebank) Robbery: When statistics is not enough

 

Robert C. Berwick, Michael Coen, Sandiway Fong & Partha Niyogi

12:10-1:35

Lunch

1:35-2:15

Transformation networks

 

Robert Frank, John Hopkins University

2:15-2:55

Indirect evidence and the poverty of the stimulus

 

Amy Prefors, Terry Regier & Josh Tenenbaum, MIT, University of Chicago, MIT

2:55-3:35

Poster Session during Extended Break

3:35-4:15

Lexical Learning and Change

 

Charles D. Yang, University of Pennsylvania

4:15-4:55

Statistical Language Learning: Computational and Maturational Constraints

 

Elissa L. Newport, University of Rochester

4:55

Closing Remarks