The proceedings of the inaugural meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics, to be held Jan. 4-7 in Salt Lake City, are now available at http://scholarworks.umass.edu/scil/. The table of contents is also pasted in below.
PAPERS
Preface: SCiL 2018 Editors’ Note
Gaja Jarosz, Brendan O’Connor, and Joe Pater
Statistical Learning Theory and Linguistic Typology: a Learnability Perspective on OT’s Strict Domination
Émile Enguehard, Edward Flemming, and Giorgio Magri
Detecting Language Impairments in Autism: A Computational Analysis of Semi-structured Conversations with Vector Semantics
Adam Goodkind, Michelle Lee, Gary E. Martin, Molly Losh, and Klinton Bicknell
Modeling the Decline in English Passivization
Liwen Hou and David Smith
Formal Restrictions On Multiple Tiers
Alena Aksenova and Sanket Deshmukh
Differentiating Phrase Structure Parsing and Memory Retrieval in the Brain
Shohini Bhattasali, John Hale, Christophe Pallier, Jonathan Brennan, Wen-Ming Luh, and R. Nathan Spreng
Phonologically Informed Edit Distance Algorithms for Word Alignment with Low-Resource Languages
Richard T. McCoy and Robert Frank
Using Rhetorical Topics for Automatic Summarization
Natalie M. Schrimpf
Sound Analogies with Phoneme Embeddings
Miikka P. Silfverberg, Lingshuang Mao, and Mans Hulden
Imdlawn Tashlhiyt Berber Syllabification is Quantifier-Free
Kristina Strother-Garcia
The Organization of Lexicons: a Cross-Linguistic Analysis of Monosyllabic Words
Shiying Yang, Chelsea Sanker, and Uriel Cohen Priva
EXTENDED ABSTRACTS
Word Learning as Category Formation
Spencer Caplan
Distributed Morphology as a regular relation
Marina Ermolaeva and Daniel Edmiston
Topical advection as a baseline model for corpus-based lexical dynamics
Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby, and Kenny Smith
Dependency Length Minimization and Lexical Frequency in Prepositional Phrase Ordering in English
Zoey Liu and Kenji Sagae
Similarity-based Phonological Generalization
Brandon Prickett
A Structural Theory of Derivations
Zachary Stone
Quantifying the Trade-off Between Two Types of Morphological Complexity
Ryan Cotterell, Christo Kirov, Mans Hulden, and Jason Eisner
Phonological opacity as local optimization in Gradient Symbolic Computation
Anna Mai, Eric Bakovic, and Matt Goldrick
Explicit Discourse Connectives / Implicit Discourse Relations
Bonnie Webber, Hannah Rohde, Anna Dickinson, Annie Louis, and Nathan Schneider
ABSTRACTS
T-orders across categorical and probabilistic constraint-based phonology
Arto Tapani Anttila and Giorgio Magri
Quantitatively Assessing the Development of Adjective Ordering Preferences Using Child-directed and Child-produced Speech Corpora
Galia Bar-Sever, Rachael Lee, Gregory Scontras, and Lisa Pearl
How far can VOT take us? Voicing categorization with and without the use of VOT
Abigail Benecke and Joseph Toscano
Logical Metonymy in a Distributional Model of Sentence Comprehension
Emmanuele Chersoni, Alessandro Lenci, and Philippe Blache
A Graph Theoretic Approach for Generating Hypotheses About Phonetic Cues in Speech
Anne Marie Crinnion, Beth Malmskog, and Joe Toscano
Allomorph Discovery as a Basis for Learning Alternations
Bruce P. Hayes
Double Trouble: The Problem of Construal in Semantic Annotation of Adpositions
Jena D. Hwang, Archna Bhatia, Na-Rae Han, Tim O’Gorman, Vivek Srikumar, and Nathan Schneider
A Bayesian Investigation of Factors Shaping the Network Structure of Inflection Class Systems
Jeff Parker, Robert Reynolds, and Andrea D. Sims
Subregular Complexity Across Speech and Sign
Jon Rawski
Predicting Fine-Grained Syntactic Typology from Surface Features
Dingquan Wang and Jason Eisner