EACL-2009 Workshop on
COGNITIVE ASPECTS OF COMPUTATIONAL LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
31 March 2009, Athens, Greece
This workshop is the second of a series which has been initiated during ACL 2007, held in Prague.
The program as well as the proceedings of the first edition of this workshop are available online
(the first edition of the workshop was organised by Anna Korhonen, Paula Buttery and Aline Villavicencio).
Description * Workshop Programme * List of Accepted Papers * Important Dates * Workshop Chairs* programme Committee
Workshop Description
This workshop is focused on the relevance of computational learning methods for research on human language acquisition. Developing and applying such computational techniques that can improve our understanding of human language acquisition will not only benefit cognitive sciences in general, but will also reflect back to NLP and place us in a better position to develop useful language models.
The workshop aims to bring together researchers from the diverse fields of NLP, machine learning, artificial intelligence, (psycho)linguistics, etc. who are interested in the relevance of computational techniques for understanding human language learning. The workshop is intended to bridge the gap between the computational and cognitive communities, promote knowledge and resource sharing, and help initiate interdisciplinary research projects. Success in this type of research requires close collaboration between NLP and cognitive scientists. To this end, interdisciplinary workshops can play a key role in advancing existing and initiating new research. This was demonstrated by some successful events like the previous edition of this workshop held at ACL 2007.
Workshop Programme
9:20-9:30 Welcome
9:30-10:30 Invited Talk
Conceptual Descriptions: Evidence from Corpora, the Mind, and the Brain
Massimo Poesio (Joint work with Marco Baroni, Brian Murphy, Eduard Barbu, and Abdulrahman Almuhareb, among others)
University of Essex and University of Trento
10:30-11:00
COFFEE BREAK
11:00-12:30
SESSION 2: Theoretical and practical aspects of language acquisition
11:00-11:30
Towards a formal view of corrective feedbackStaffan Larsson and Robin Cooper 11:30-12:00 A Collaborative Tool for the Computational Modelling of Child Language Acquisition Kris Jack 12:00-12:30 What's in a Message? Stergos Afantenos and Nicolas Hernandez
12:30-14:00
LUNCH BREAK
14:00-16:00
SESSION 3: Learnability and grammatical inference
14:00-15:00
Invited Talk
Treebank Parsing and Knowledge of Language: A Cognitive Perspective
Robert Berwick (Joint work with Prof. Sandiway Fong, University of Arizona)
Massassuchets Institute of Technology
15:00-15:30
Another look at indirect negative evidenceAlexander Clark and Shalom Lappin 15:30-16:00 Categorizing Local Contexts as a Step in Grammatical Category Induction Markus Dickinson and Charles Jochim
16:00-16:30
COFFEE BREAK
16:30-17:30
SESSION 4: Ecology of languages
16:30-17:00
Darwinised Data-Oriented Parsing - Statistical NLP with added sex and deathDave Cochran 17:00-17:30 Language Diversity across the Consonant Inventories: A Study in the Framework of Complex Networks Monojit Choudhury, Animesh Mukherjee, Anupam Basu, Niloy Ganguly, Ashish Garg and Vaibhav Jalan
List of accepted papers
- Categorizing Local Contexts as a Step in Grammatical Category Induction
Markus Dickinson and Charles Jochim
- Towards a formal view of corrective feedback
Staffan Larsson and Robin Cooper
- Another look at indirect negative evidence
Alexander Clark and Shalom Lappin
- Darwinised Data-Oriented Parsing - Statistical NLP with added sex and death
Dave Cochran
- What's in a Message?
Stergos Afantenos and Nicolas Hernandez
- A Collaborative Tool for the Computational Modelling of Child Language Acquisition
Kris Jack
- Language Diversity across the Consonant Inventories: A Study in the Framework of Complex Networks
Monojit Choudhury, Animesh Mukherjee, Anupam Basu, Niloy Ganguly, Ashish Garg and Vaibhav Jalan
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: 19 December 2008Paper submission deadline: 23 December 2008 (extended deadline)Acceptance notification sent: 30 January 2009Final version deadline: 10 February 2009- Workshop date: 31 March 2009
Workshop Chairs
Address any queries regarding the workshop to: cognitive2009@gmail.com
- Afra Alishahi
(University of Saarland, Germany)
- Thierry Poibeau
(CNRS and University Paris 13, France)
- Aline Villavicencio
(Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil and University of Bath, UK)
Program Committee
- Colin J Bannard (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany)
- Marco Baroni (University of Trento, Italy)
- Robert C. Berwick (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
- Jim Blevins (University of Cambridge, UK)
- Rens Bod (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- Antal van den Bosch (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
- Chris Brew (Ohio State University, USA)
- Ted Briscoe (University of Cambridge, UK)
- Robin Clark (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
- Stephen Clark (University of Oxford, UK)
- Matthew W. Crocker (Saarland University, Germany)
- James Cussens (University of York, UK)
- Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Belgium and Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
- Ted Gibson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
- Henriette Hendriks (University of Cambridge, UK)
- Julia Hockenmaier (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
- Marco Idiart (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
- Mark Johnson (Brown University, USA)
- Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
- Anna Korhonen (University of Cambridge, UK)
- Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa, Italy)
- Massimo Poesio (University of Trento, Italy)
- Brechtje Post (University of Cambridge, UK)
- Ari Rappoport (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
- Dan Roth (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
- Kenji Sagae (University of Southern California, USA)
- Sabine Schulte im Walde (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
- Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh, UK)
- Suzanne Stevenson (University of Toronto, Canada)
- Patrick Sturt (University of Edinburgh, UK)
- Bert Vaux (University of Wisconsin, USA)
- Charles Yang (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
- Menno van Zaanen (Macquarie University, Australia)
- Michael Zock (LIF, CNRS, Marseille, France)