Psychocomputational
Models of Human Language Acquisition
Organizers: Rens Bod, William Sakas and Taylor Cassidy
9:00-9:10:
Welcome
and Introduction to PscychoCompLA 2009
9:10-9:40:
Input
Evidence for Language Acquisition: The Discovery of Basic Word Order
Jos de Bruin, Jacqueline
van Kampen
9:40-10:10:
Online
Learning Mechanisms for Bayesian Models of Word Segmentation
Sharon
Goldwater, Lisa Pearl, Mark Steyvers
10:10-10:40:
Lexical Category
Acquisition as an Incremental Process
Afra Alishahi, Grzegorz Chrupala
10:40-11:00:
Coffee break
11:00-11:30:
Word Segmentation as
General Chunking
Daniel
Hewlett, Paul Cohen
11:30-12:00:
Modeling the Effect of
Animacy on Human Sentence Comprehension
Bram Vandekerckhove, Dominiek
Sandra, Walter Daelemans
12:00-12:30:
Modeling Acquisition of
Word Structure with Lexicalized Grammar Learning
Cagri Coltekin
12:30-13:30:
Lunch
13:30-14:15:
Invited talk by Hinrich Schuetze, Acquisition of Segments in
Exemplar Theory
14:15-14:45:
Acquisition of Abstract
Slot-Filler Schemas: Computational Evaluation
Sheli
Kol, Bracha Nir, Shuly Wintner
14:45-15:15:
A Computational Model for
Vocabulary Acquisition from Auditory Input
Hugo Van Hamme
15:15-15:30:
Coffee break
15:30-16:00:
A Computational Model of
Language Acquisition
Louis ten Bosch, Lou
Boves
16:00-16:30:
Computational Grammar Acquisition
from CHILDES Data Using a Probabilistic
Parsing
Model
Tom
Kwiatkowski, Sharon Goldwater, Mark Steedman
16:30-17:00:
General discussion session