[ACT-R-users] Call for Participation: Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics at ACL2011

[David Reitter]

The 2nd Workshop in Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL)


A workshop to be held

June 23, 2011
0850-1730hrs

at the Association for Computational Linguistics meeting
in Portland, Oregon


           http://www.psy.cmu.edu/~cmcl/




CALL FOR PARTICIPATION



This workshop provides a venue for work in computational psycholinguistics.
ACL Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Martin Kay described this topic as
"build[ing] models of language that reflect in some interesting way, on the ways
in which people use language." Following several successful related
workshops, we have selected from a large number of submissions several
outstanding contributions that apply methods from computational linguistics
to problems in the cognitive modeling of any and all natural language abilities.



Scope and Topics

The workshop presents a broad spectrum of work in the cognitive science of
language, at all levels of analysis from sounds to discourse.  It
emphasizes precise, computational and cognitively valid and
empirically verified models.  This year's topics include

* cognitively plausible parsers, syntactic and morphological segmentation,
* human language acquisition, including grammar induction,
* models of adaptation and coordination in language production and
 comprehension in dialogue,
* referring expression interpretation,
* reading,
* lexical semantics, and 
* linguistic variants of clinical relevance.



Best Student Paper

The best paper whose first author is a student will receive the Best
Student Paper award, sponsored by the Cognitive Science Society.  The
award consists of USD 250 and a one-year membership to the Cognitive
Science Society.


Participation

To participate in the workshop, register now at the ACL2011 site:

           http://www.aclweb.org/membership/acl2011reg.php

Early registration runs until May 23, 2011. 



Workshop Chairs

Frank Keller,  School of Informatics,  University of Edinburgh
David Reitter,  Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University


Program Committee

Steven Abney, Michigan 
Matthew Crocker, Saarland 
Vera Demberg, Saarland 
Robert Daland, Northwestern 
Amit Dubey, Edinburgh 
Mike Frank, Stanford
Ted Gibson, MIT 
John Hale, Cornell 
Keith Hall, Google
Jeff Heinz, Delaware
Florian Jaeger, Rochester 
Gaja Jarosz, Yale
Roger Levy, San Diego 
Richard Lewis, Michigan 
Brian Murphy, Trento
Stephan Oepen, Oslo 
Tim O’Donnell, Harvard 
Ulrike Pado, VICO Research
Sebastian Pado, Heidelberg 
Amy Perfors, Adelaide 
Douglas Roland, Buffalo 
William Schuler, Ohio State 
Mark Steedman, Edinburgh 
Patrick Sturt, Edinburgh 
Shravan Vasishth, Potsdam