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Monday, February 7
- Opening Remarks 10:00-10:15
- Keynote 1: Alexander Clark 10:15-11:30
- Weak learning, strong learning and the identification of syntactic structure.
- Break 11:30-11:45
- Talk Session 1: Syntax 11:45-12:45 (Session Chair: Lori Levin)
- Learning constraints on wh-dependencies by learning how to efficiently represent wh-dependencies: A developmental modeling investigation with Fragment Grammar
Niels Dickson, Lisa Pearl and Richard Futrell - Typological Implications of Tier-Based Strictly Local Movement
Thomas Graf - Evaluating Structural Economy Claims in Relative Clause Attachment
Aniello De Santo and So Young Lee
- Learning constraints on wh-dependencies by learning how to efficiently represent wh-dependencies: A developmental modeling investigation with Fragment Grammar
- Break 12:45-1:00
- Talk Session 2: Syntax (NLP) 1:00-2:00 (Session Chair: Marten van Schijndel)
- Can language models capture syntactic associations without surface cues? A case study of reflexive anaphor licensing in English control constructions
Soo-Hwan Lee and Sebastian Schuster - How well do LSTM language models learn filler-gap dependencies?
Satoru Ozaki, Daniel Yurovsky and Lori Levin - Learning Argument Structures with Recurrent Neural Network Grammars
Ryo Yoshida and Yohei Oseki
- Can language models capture syntactic associations without surface cues? A case study of reflexive anaphor licensing in English control constructions
- Informal gather session 2:00-3:00
Tuesday, February 8
- Talk Session 3: Psycholinguistics (sound) 10:00-11:00 (Session Chair: Ewan Dunbar)
- Linguistic Complexity and Planning Effects on Word Duration in Hindi Read Aloud Speech
Sidharth Ranjan, Rajakrishnan Rajkumar and Sumeet Agarwal - Modeling human-like morphological prediction
Eric Rosen - A split-gesture, competitive, coupled oscillator model of syllable structure predicts the emergence of edge gemination and degemination
Francesco Burroni
- Linguistic Complexity and Planning Effects on Word Duration in Hindi Read Aloud Speech
- Break 11-11:15
- Posters 11:15-12:15
- The interaction between cognitive ease and informativeness shapes the lexicons of natural languages
Thomas Brochhagen and Gemma Boleda - Incremental Acquisition of a Minimalist Grammar using an SMT-Solver
Sagar Indurkhya - Universal Dependencies and Semantics for English and Hebrew Child-directed Speech
Ida Szubert, Omri Abend, Nathan Schneider, Samuel Gibbon, Sharon Goldwater and Mark Steedman - MaxEnt Learners are Biased Against Giving Probability to Harmonically Bounded Candidates
Charlie O’Hara - Representing multiple dependencies in prosodic structures
Kristine Yu - Inferring Inferences: Relational Propositions for Argument Mining
Andrew Potter - Concurrent hidden structure & grammar learning
Adeline Tan - What masked language models can teach us about linguistic uncertainty
Cassandra Jacobs, Ryan Hubbard and Kara Federmeier
- The interaction between cognitive ease and informativeness shapes the lexicons of natural languages
- Break 12:15-12:30
- Keynote 2: Caitlin Smith 12:30-1:45
- Grammar and Representation Learning for Opaque Harmony Processes (joint work with Charlie O’Hara)
- Talk Session 4: Phonology: 1:45-2:45 (Session Chair: Hossep Dolatian)
- Learning Stress Patterns with a Sequence-to-Sequence Neural Network
Brandon Prickett and Joe Pater - A model theoretic perspective on phonological feature systems
Scott Nelson - Learning input strictly local functions: comparing approaches with Catalan adjectives
Colin Wilson
- Learning Stress Patterns with a Sequence-to-Sequence Neural Network
- Informal gather session 2:45-3:45
Wednesday, February 9
- Keynote 3: Katrin Erk 10:00-11:15
- Computational frameworks for garden-variety polysemy: Word vectors have a story bias. We should use them anyway.
- Break 11:15-11:30
- Talk Session 5: NLP: 11:30-12:30 (Session Chair: Tal Linzen)
- When classifying arguments, BERT doesn’t care about word order … except when it does
Isabel Papadimitriou, Richard Futrell and Kyle Mahowald - ANLIzing the Adversarial Natural Language Inference Dataset
Adina Williams, Tristan Thrush and Douwe Kiela - Parsing Early Modern English for Linguistic Search
Seth Kulick, Neville Ryant and Beatrice Santorini
- When classifying arguments, BERT doesn’t care about word order … except when it does
- Break 12:30-12:45
- Talk Session 6: Psycholinguistics (s-side): 12:45-1:45 (Session Chair: Jonathan Brennan)
- Horse or pony? Visual typicality and lexical frequency affect variability in object naming
Eleonora Gualdoni, Thomas Brochhagen, Andreas Mädebach and Gemma Boleda - Analysis of Language Change in Collaborative Instruction Following
Anna Effenberger, Eva Yan, Rhia Singh, Alane Suhr and Yoav Artzi - Remodelling complement coercion interpretation
Frederick Gietz and Barend Beekhuizen
- Horse or pony? Visual typicality and lexical frequency affect variability in object naming
- Business Meeting: 1:45-2:30
- Informal gather session 1:45-2:45