[ACT-R-users] CFP: Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics CMCL 2012

[David Reitter]

Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL-2012)

A workshop to be held June 7, 2012
at the North American Association for Computational Linguistics meeting (NAACL-HLT) 
in Montreal, Quebec


            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:

- the computational psycholinguistics meeting at CogSci in Berkeley in 1997
- the Incremental Parsing workshop at ACL 2004
- the first two CMCL workshops at ACL 2010 and ACL 2011

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

- derivations of comprehension difficulty predictions, or predictions
  regarding generalization in language learning

- stochastic models of factors encouraging one production or
  interpretation over its competitors

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

- models and empirical analysis of the relationship between
  mechanistic psycholinguistic principles and pragmatic or semantic
  adaptation, usually in dialogue

- models of human language acquisition

- models of linguistic information propagation and language evolution
  in communication networks


Submissions 

This call solicits 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unpublished research that combines cognitive modeling and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. No submission should be
longer than necessary, up to a maximum 8 pages plus two additional
pages containing references.


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


Submissions must be formatted using NAACL 2012 style files available at


            http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/conference/conference.php


Contributions should be submitted in PDF via the submission site:


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


The submission deadline is 11:59PM Eastern Time on March 20, 2012.


Best Student Paper

The best paper whose first author is a student will receive the Best
Student Paper award.


Publication

All accepted CMCL papers will be published in the workshop proceedings
as is customary at ACL conferences.


Important Dates

Submission deadline: 20 March 2012
Notification of acceptance: 17 April 2012
Camera-ready versions due: 30 April 2012
Workshop: 7 June 2012


Workshop Chairs

Roger Levy,  Department of Linguistics,  University of California at San Diego
David Reitter,  Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University


Program Committee

Matthew Crocker, Saarbrücken University
Robert Daland, UC Los Angeles
Vera Demberg, Saarbrücken University
Amit Dubey,  University of Edinburgh
Michael C. Frank, Stanford University
Ted Gibson, MIT
Guodong Zhou, Soochow University
John T. Hale, Cornell University
Keith Hall, Google
Jeffrey Heinz, University of Delaware
T. Florian Jaeger, University of Rochester
Gaja Jarosz, Yale University
Frank Keller, University of Edinburgh
Lars Konieczny, University of Freiburg
Richard L. Lewis, University of Michigan
Brian Edmond Murphy, University of Trento
Ulrike Padó, VICO Research & Consulting
Sebastian Padó, University of Heidelberg
Amy Perfors, Adelaide University
Brian Roark, Oregon Health & Science University
William Schuler, The Ohio State University
Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh
Patrick Sturt, University of Edinburgh
Shravan Vasishth, University of Potsdam
Nathaniel Smith, UC San Diego
Lisa Pearl, UC Irvine
Noah Goodman, Stanford University
Klinton Bicknell, UC San Diego
Brian Dillon, University of Massachussetts
Naomi Feldman, University of Maryland