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

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