PsychoCompLA-2005

Workshop Topic The workshop is devoted to psychologically-motivated computational models of language acquisition. That is, models that are compatible with research in psycholinguistics, developmental psychology and linguistics.

Invited Speakers:

  • Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh
  • Brian MacWhinney, Carnegie Mellon University

Workshop Description The goal of this workshop is to bring together scientists whose (at least one) line of investigation is to computationally model the process by which humans acquire various aspects of natural language. Progress in this agenda not only directly informs developmental psycholinguistic and linguistic research but will also have the long term benefit of informing applied computational linguistics in areas that involve the automated acquisition of knowledge from a human or human-computer linguistic environment.

Workshop History  This meeting of the Psychocomputational Models of Human Language Acquisition (PsychoCompLA-2005) workshop is a follow-up meeting of the first PsychoCompLA workshop held in 2004 in Geneva, Switzerland where it was part of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2004). This year, the workshop is part of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2005) to be held in Ann Arbor, Michigan and will share a joint session with the Ninth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-2005).

Workshop Organizers:

·         William Gregory Sakas (Chair), City University of New York, USA (sakas at hunter.cuny.edu)

·         Alexander Clark, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK (alexc at cs.rhul.ac.uk)

·         James Cussens, University of York, UK (jc at cs.york.ac.uk)

·         Aris Xanthos, University of Lausanne, Switzerland (aris.xanthos at unil.ch)

Program Committee

·         Robert Berwick, MIT, USA

·         Antal van den Bosch, Tilburg University, The Netherlands

·         Ted Briscoe, University of Cambridge, UK

·         Damir Cavar, Indiana University, USA

·         Nick Chater, University of Warwick, UK

·         Stephen Clark, University of Edinburgh, UK 

·         Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium and Tilburg University, The Netherlands

·         Elan Dresher, University of Toronto, Canada

·         Jeff Elman, University of California, San Diego, USA

·         Jerry Feldman, University of California, Berkeley, USA

·         John Goldsmith, University of Chicago, USA

·         John Hale, University of Michigan, USA

·         Mark Johnson, Brown University, USA

·         Vincenzo Lombardo, Universita di Torino, Italy

·         Paola Merlo, University of Geneva, Switzerland

·         Sandeep Prasada, City University of New York, USA

·         Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

·         Jenny Saffran, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

·         Ivan Sag, Stanford University, USA

·         Ed Stabler, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

·         Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh, UK

·         Suzanne Stevenson, University of Toronto, Canada

·         Patrick Sturt, University of Glasgow, UK

·         Charles Yang, Yale University, USA

Contact

Psycho.Comp@hunter.cuny.edu or sakas@hunter.cuny.edu
http://www.colag.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/psychocomp/