Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics 2014 (CMCL-2014) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A workshop to be held June 26, 2014 at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) in Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Workshop Description -----------------------------
This workshop provides a venue for work in computational psycholinguistics: the computational and mathematical modeling of linguistic generalization, development, and processing. We invite contributions that apply methods from computational linguistics to problems in the cognitive modeling of any and all natural language abilities. The 2014 workshop follows in the tradition of earlier CMCL meetings at ACL 2010, ACL 2011, NAACL-HLT 2012, ACL 2013.
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 and on both learning and processing. Topics include, but are not limited to:
- incremental parsers for diverse grammar formalisms
- derivations of quantitative measures of comprehension difficulty, or
predictions regarding generalization in language learning
- stochastic models of factors encouraging one production or interpretation
over its competitors
- models of semantic/pragmatic interpretation, including psychologically
realistic notions of word meaning, phrase meaning, composition, and
pragmatic inference
- models and empirical analysis of the relationship between mechanistic
psycholinguistic principles and pragmatic or semantic adaptation
- models of human language acquisition and/or adaptation in a changing
linguistic environment
- models of linguistic information propagation and language change in
communication networks
- models of lexical acquisition, including phonology, morphology, and semantics
- psychologically motivated models of grammar induction or semantic learning
Submissions are especially welcomed that combine computational modeling work with empirical data (e.g., corpora or experiments) to test theoretical questions about the nature of human language acquisition, comprehension, and/or production.
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This call solicits full papers reporting original and unpublished research that combines cognitive modeling and computational linguistics.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 ACL 2014 style files available at
http://www.cs.jhu.edu/ACL2014/CallforPapers.htm
Contributions should be submitted in PDF via the submission site:
https://www.softconf.com/acl2014/CMCL/
The submission deadline is 11:59PM Pacific Time on March 18, 2014.
Important Dates ---------------------
Submission deadline: 18 March 2014 Notification of acceptance: 18 April 2014 Camera-ready versions due: 28 April 2014 Workshop: June 26, 2014
Workshop Chairs -----------------------
Vera Demberg Multimodal Computing and Interaction Cluster of Excellence, Saarland University, Germany
Tim O’Donnell Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Program Committee ---------------------------
Afra Alishahi, Tilburg University Klinton Bicknell, University of Rochester Alexander Clark, King's College London Jennifer Culbertson, George Mason Afsaneh Fazly, University of Toronto Bob Frank, Yale Stefan Frank, Radboud University Nijmegen Stella Frank, University of Edinburgh John T. Hale, Cornell University Frank Keller, University of Edinburgh Anna Korhonen, Cambridge University Shalom Lappin, King's College Richard L. Lewis, University of Michigan Sebastian Padó, Stuttgart University David Reitter, Penn State University William Schuler, The Ohio State University Nathaniel Smith, University of Edinburgh Ed Stabler, UCLA Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh Charles Yang, University of Pennsylvania Jelle Zuidema, University of Amsterdam -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 5886 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://mailman.uib.no/public/corpora/attachments/20140314/a3a82195/attachment.txt>