PsychoCompLA-2005

 

Workshop Papers and Schedule

Registration for PsychoCompLA-2005 can be done via the ACL-2005 site. Early registration is possible until May 31, Late registration until June 18.

Wednesday, June 29, 2005

 

 

9:10-9:30

Opening Remarks

9:30-10:00

The Input for Syntactic Acquisition: Solutions from Language Change Modeling

 

Lisa Pearl

10:00-10:30

Simulating Language Change in the Presence of Non-Idealized Syntax

 

W. Garrett Mitchener

10:30-11:00

Break

11:00-11:30

Using Morphology and Syntax Together in Unsupervised Learning

 

Yu Hu, Irina Matveeva, John GoldSmith and Colin Sprague

11:30-12:00

Refining the SED Heuristic for Morpheme Discovery: Another Look at Swahili

 

Yu Hu, Irina Matveeva, John GoldSmith and Colin Sprague

12:00-12:30

A Connectionist Model of Language-Scene Interaction

 

Marshall R. Mayberry, Matthew W. Crocker and Pia Knoeferle

12:30-2:00

Lunch

2:00-2:30

A Second Language Acquisition Model Using Example Generalization and Concept Categories

 

Ari Rappoport and Vera Sheinman

 

 

2:30-3:30

Invited Talk: Brian MacWhinney

 

Item Based Constructions and the Logical Problem

 

 

3:30-4:00

Break

4:00-4:30

Statistics vs. UG in Language Acquisition: Does a Bigram Analysis Predict Auxiliary Inversion?

 

Xuân-Nga Cao Kam, Iglika Stoyneshka, Lidiya Tornyova, William Gregory Sakas and Janet Dean Fodor

4:30-5:00

Climbing the path to grammar: a maximum entropy model of subject/object learning

 

Felice Dell'Orletta, Alessandro Lenci, Simonetta Montemagni and Vito Pirrelli

5:00-5:30

The Acquisition and Use of Argument Structure Constructions: A Bayesian Model

 

Afra Alishahi and Suzanne Stevenson

 

 

Thursday, June 30, 2005

 

 

 

Joint Session with CoNLL-2005

 

 

9:00-9:50

Invited talk: Mark Steedman - Grammar Acquisition by Child and Machine

9:50-10:15

Steps Toward Deep Lexical Acquisition

 

Sourabh Niyogi

10:15-10:40

Intentional Context in Situated Natural Language Learning (A CoNLL-2005 Paper)

 

 Michael Fleischman and Deb Roy

 

 

 

Remaining CoNLL-2005 sessions

 

 

11:10-12:25

Morphology

2:10-2:50

Learning methods and architectures

2:50-3:30

Shared Task: Semantic Role Labeling

4:00-6:00

Shared Task:Semantic Role Labeling (con't)