Call for Part.: May 28, 29 - Workshop on Language, Cognition and Computational Models

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Participation
Abbreviated Title: 
Language, Cognition and Computational Models
Location: 
Ecole Normale Supérieure and at the Institut des Systèmes Complexes de Paris
Tuesday, 28 May 2013 to Wednesday, 29 May 2013
Country: 
France
Contact Email: 
City: 
Paris
Contact: 
Thierry Poibeau
Aline Villavicencio
Submission Deadline: 
Tuesday, 21 May 2013

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
WORKSHOP ON LANGUAGE, COGNITION AND COMPUTATIONAL MODELS

*** REGISTRATION EXTENDED TO MAY 21, 2013 ***

Paris, May 28-29, 2013
https://sites.google.com/site/lccmodels/home

We are pleased to invite you to:

The Workshop on Language, Cognition and Computational Models,

which will be held in Paris at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS)
and at the Institut des Systèmes Complexes de Paris, on May 28th and 29th 2013.

The goal of this event is to provide a venue for the multidisciplinary
discussion of theoretical and practical research for computational models
of language and cognition. The event centers around recent advances on computational
models for language acquisition, processing and evolution.

The first day will mainly address language evolution and some of the
computational models that have been proposed to investigate possible
avenues for this phenomenon. The second day will address more varied
issues, ranging from the origins of language to recent trends in machine
translation. All the talks will address key questions dealing with
cognitive, formal and/or computational issues related to language evolution
and/or language processing.

The event is open to students, researchers and anyone interested in
related topics. Attendance is free but people who plan to attend are
kindly requested to register preferably before May 21st to help with
the planning of the event. The registration form is available at

https://sites.google.com/site/lccmodels/registration

The workshop is funded by the cluster of labs (labex) Transfers. It is
organized thanks to the support of Lattice, Ecole Normale Supérieure,
Paris Sciences et Lettres, the Institut des Systèmes Complexes de Paris-Ile de France,
the Institute of Informatics of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil).

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PROGRAMME:

Tuesday May 28th

09:00 - 09:15 - Opening - ENS - salle Dussane
09:15 - 12:45 - Multidisciplinary Aspects of Language Evolution
• 09:15 - 10:15 - Dan Dediu (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands)
The interplay between linguistic and biological evolution
• 10:15 - 11:15 - Ted Briscoe (University of Cambridge, UK)
A model of L1/L2 Language Acquisition and its implications for language change
• 11:15 - 11:45 - Break
• 11:45 - 12:45 - Anne Reboul (L2C2-CNRS, France)
Social Evolution of public languages: between Rousseau's Eden and Hobbes' Leviathan
12:45 - 14:30 - Lunch Break

14:30 - 17:00 - Modeling Language Evolution: Two Case Studies - ISC-PIF
• 14:30 - 15:30 - Benjamin Fagard (Lattice-CNRS, France)
Case, Prepositions and In‐Betweens: Sketching a Model of Grammatical Evolution
• 15:30 - 16:30 - Remi van Trijp (Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris, France)
Linguistic Assessment Criteria for Explaining Language Change: A Case Study on Syncretism in German Definite Articles
• 16:30 - 17:00 - Discussions

Wednesday May 29th

09:00 - 11:00 - Cognitive and Computational Approaches to Language Processing - ENS - salle Dussane
• 09:00 - 10:00 - Robert Berwick (MIT, USA)
The Dead Tell No Tales: Known Unknowns about the Origin of Human Language
• 10:00 - 11:00 - Massimo Poesio (University of Trento, Italy and University of Essex, UK)
Using Data about Conceptual Representations in the Brain for Computational Linguistics
• 11:00 - 11:30 - Break
• 11:30 - 12:30 - Philippe Blache (LPL, CNRS, France)
Measuring difficulty as well as facilitation: a new perspective for human language processing

12:30 - 14:30 - Lunch Break
14:30 - 15:30 - From Language Variety to Machine Tanslation - ENS - salle Dussane
• 14:30 - 15:30 - Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa, Israel)
The Features of Translationese
• 15:30 - 16:30 - Martin Kay (Stanford University, USA)
Putting Linguistics back into Computational Linguistics
16:30 - 17:00 - Discussions and Closing

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ORGANIZATION

The event is organized by:
• Thierry Poibeau, Laboratoire Lattice ("Langues, Textes, Traitements informatiques et Cognition", UMR8094, CNRS, École Normale Supérieure & Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, France)
• Aline Villavicencio, Institute of Informatics, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)

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LOCATIONS

*Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS): Salle Dussane, 45 rue d'Ulm 75005 Paris
*Institut des Systèmes Complexes de Paris-Ile de France (ISC-PIF): 57-59 rue Lhomond F-75005, Paris

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CONTACT INFORMATION

For any inquiries regarding the workshop please send an email to lccmodels2013 [at] gmail.com
More information on https://sites.google.com/site/lccmodels/home