[ACT-R-users] Call for Papers: Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics

[David Reitter]

Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL)

and TopiCS special issue Models of Language Comprehension

A workshop to be held
June 23, 2011
at the Association for Computational Linguistics meeting
in Portland, Oregon

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


CALL FOR PAPERS


Workshop Description

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." The 2010 workshop follows in the tradition of several
previous meetings

    (1) the computational psycholinguistics meeting at CogSci in
        Berkeley in 1997
    (2) the Incremental Parsing workshop at ACL 2004
    (3) the first CMCL workshop at ACL 2010

in inviting 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 invites a broad spectrum of work in the cognitive science
of language, at all levels of analysis from sounds to
discourse. Topics include, but are not limited to

* incremental parsers for diverse grammar formalisms; models of
 comprehension difficulty derived from such parsers

* models of factors favoring particular productions or interpretations
 over their competitors

* models of semantic interpretation, including psychologically
 realistic notions of word and phrase meaning

* models of human language acquisition, including the prediction of
 generalizations and time course in acquisition

* applications of cognitive models of language, e.g., in tutoring
 systems, human evaluation, clinical and cognitive neuroscience
 settings


Submissions

This call solicits 8-page, full papers reporting original and
unpublished research that combines cognitive modeling and
computational linguistics.  Accepted papers are expected to be
presented at the workshop and will be published in the workshop
proceedings. They should emphasize obtained results rather than
intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of
the reported results.  A paper accepted for presentation at the
workshop must not be presented or have been presented at any other
meeting with publicly available proceedings.  If essentially identical
papers are submitted to other conferences or workshops as well, this
fact must be indicated at submission time.

To facilitate double-blind reviewing, submitted paper should not
include any identifying information about the authors.

Submissions must be formatted using ACL 2011 style files available at

           http://www.acl2011.org/latex/
           http://www.acl2011.org/word/

Contributions should be submitted in PDF via the submission site:

           https://www.softconf.com/acl2011/CogModCL

The submission deadline is 11:59PM Eastern Time on April 01, 2011.


Pathway to Journal Publication

All accepted CMCL papers will be published in the workshop proceedings
as is customary at ACL. However, CMCL presenters whose work holds
broad interest for the wider cognitive science community will be
encouraged to prepare extended versions of their papers (16 pages in
APA format). If approved by a second round of reviewing, these
extended papers will appear in a forthcoming issue of TopiCS, a
Journal of the Cognitive Science Society, entitled entitled "Models of
Language Comprehension".  These expanded papers will need to be
substantially adapted to address the broader TopiCS readership. The
Program Committee will be assisted by additional experts, as needed,
to apply this and other review criteria.


Important Dates

Submission deadline: April 01, 2011
Notification of acceptance: April 25, 2011
Camera-ready versions due: May 06, 2011
Workshop: June 23, 2011, at ACL 2011


Workshop Chairs

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


Program Committee

Steven Abney     Michigan   
Harald R. Baayen Alberta    
Matthew Crocker  Saarland      
Vera Demberg     Saarland     
Tim O'Donnell    Harvard     
Amit Dubey       Edinburgh  
Mike Frank       Stanford    
Ted Gibson       MIT          
John Hale        Cornell     
Keith Hall       Google       
Florian Jaeger   Rochester    
Lars Konieczny   Freiburg      
Roger Levy       San Diego     
Richard Lewis    Michigan    
Stephan Oepen    Oslo         
Ulrike Pado      VICO Research
Douglas Roland   Buffalo       
William Schuler  Ohio State   
Mark Steedman    Edinburgh
Patrick Sturt    Edinburgh         
Shravan Vasishth Potsdam