Brandon Prickett and Andrew Lamont will be presenting papers at NECPhon 2017 at Stony Brook on October 21st. Brandon’s talk is titled “Learning biases in opaque interactions”, and Andrew’s is “Subsequential steps to unbounded tonal plateauing”. Follow the link to see the full schedule and to register (by Oct 16th).
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Computational Linguistics Community Fall 2017 Meetings
There are several meetings of the Computational Linguistics Community (CLC) planned for the Fall 2017 semester. Please mark your calendars!
- Discussion of Joe Pater’s new paper Generative Linguistics & Neural Networks at 60
- October 27th, 10 am in ILC N451
- Students in Cognitive Modeling (Ling 692c) present their final projects
- Dec 8, 9-10am in ILC N400 (Psycholinguistics Workshop)
- Students in Intro NLP (CS 585) give poster presentations of their final projects
- Dec 12 (tentative)
PhoNE 2017 @ UMass
PhoNE 2017 will take place at UMass on Saturday, April 8th, 2017. The talks, breaks, and lunch will all take place in/around N400 in the Department of Linguistics, which is in the Integrative Learning Center (650 N. Pleasant St). It is the building directly north of the pond on the map here.
Parking is free on weekends at most university parking lots (all those not circled on the map as 24hr enforced). I would suggest lots 62, 63, or 64 for proximity to the department.
Please see below for the schedule.
SCHEDULE
11:30-12:00 Martín Fuchs (Yale) “Antepenultimate stress in Spanish: in defense of syllable weight and grammatically-informed analogy”
12:00-12:30 Luca Iacoponi (Rutgers) “Surface Correspondence as I/O Correspondence”
12:30-1:30 LUNCH
1:30-2:00 Coral Hughto (UMass) “Generating gradient typological predictions with an interactive learning model”
2:00-2:30 Gašper Beguš (Harvard) “Bootstrapping Historical Probabilities”
2:30-3:00 BREAK
3:00-3:30 Chikako Takahashi (Stony Brook) “No metathesis in Harmonic Serialism”
3:30-4:00 Benjamin Storme (MIT) “A theory of phonologically-derived environment effects”
4:00-4:30 BREAK
4:30-5:00 Brandon Prickett (UMass) “The Effect of Complexity on Generalization”
5:00 Business meeting
UMass hosts 10th NECPhon
Over the weekend, UMass Amherst hosted the 10th Northeast Computational Phonology (NECPhon) meeting. We had a great schedule of talks, including two talks by UMass faculty and alumni: check out the schedule here. Thanks everyone for helping make NECPhon 10 a success!
New Conference on Computational Approaches in Linguistics
We are planning a new conference on computational modeling in linguistics, whose first meeting is tentatively scheduled to take place at UMass in Fall 2017. We have been hosting a discussion about various aspects of the plans for this conference on the UMass Computational Phonology Lab blog page and would love to get more input from linguists about our plans. We want to gather as much information as we can about how best to realize our goals for this conference and make it as accessible and useful to linguists as possible!
Please follow the link to our lab blog for full details and discussion, but to summarize, this conference is intended for linguists and cognitive scientists using computational and mathematical approaches to study the human language faculty. We’re particularly interested in input from linguists on the following key aspects of the current plans:
- The short-term and long-term co-location/venue possibilities
- The name and ideal scope and target audience for the conference
- The tentative plan to have short paper (6-8pp) submissions (rather than abstract submissions). Please go to this post for discussion and comments on this aspect of the current plans.
We’ve had quite a bit of discussion on our blog already, primarily from potential participants of this conference who also regularly attend workshops and/or conferences affiliated with the ACL. This discussion has been very useful, but the conference would ideally be accessible and appealing to a broader community of linguists than is currently represented in the discussion. So we are looking for additional input from linguists who are potentially interested in this new conference, but who do not generally attend ACL – we’d be very grateful to hear about the kinds of considerations that could increase or decrease the chances phonologists and other linguists would attend and/or submit their best work to this conference.
Many thanks!
Gaja Jarosz