It is our firm conviction, however, that quantitative research can contribute significantly to our understanding of the human language faculty and that only in the presence of a well-developed linguistic theory can quantitative methods be fruitfully applied to questions of language use and interpretation. We are heartened by the fact that in recent years there has been a slow but steady outpouring of research which combines a generative outlook on linguistics with sophisticated use of quantitative methods.
The purpose of this workshop, then, is to provide a forum for such research. We envision a relatively small workshop (10-15 talks) in which researchers using sophisticated quantitative methods to investigate the structure of the human language faculty can share their work. Topics of interest range from the use of specialized statistical models, like LNRE models for the measure of morphological productivity, to studies of degrees of grammaticality and lexical biases. The focus should be on the linguistic question, not computational linguistic applications, and how quantitative methods can be used to address them.
We invite interested researchers to submit abstracts for 40 minute talks (plus 20 minutes discussion). Abstracts should be no longer than one page PLUS a separate page for figures and references. Electronic submission (postscript, pdf, rtf) is strongly preferred.
Deadline: June 01
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Joan Bresnan, Stanford
and
Walter Daelemans, Antwerp & Tilburg
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Thursday, 3rd October
| 01.00pm | starting with registration; coffee |
| 02.00 - 02.30pm | Introduction by Anke Lüdeling and Graham Katz |
| 02.30 - 03.30pm | Extended constraint-ranking models for frequency-sensitive accounts of syntax Jonas Kuhn, Stanford - slides |
| 03.30 - 04.30pm | Operationalizing Lexical Choice in Language Change Patrick Juola, Pittsburgh |
| 04.30 - 05.00pm | ---coffee break--- |
| 05.00 - 06.30pm | invited talk: Categoricity and Variation in Syntax: The Stochastic Generalization Joan Bresnan, Stanford - slides |
Friday, 4th October
| 09.00 - 10.00am | Modelling Lexical Exceptions to Phonological Processes Gregory Guy, New York |
| 10.00 - 11.00am | The Rise and Fall of Periphrastic 'Do' in Affirmative Declaratives Relja Vulanovic, Canton, Ohio - hand-out |
| 11.00 - 11.30am | ---coffee break--- |
| 11.30 - 12.30pm | The Benefit of Doubt Manuela Schönenberger & Stefan Evert, Stuttgart - slides1 , slides2 - hand-out1 , hand-out2 |
| 12.30 - 02.00pm | --- lunch break--- |
| 02.00 - 03.00pm | Analogy versus rules in Dutch past tenses Harald Baayen, Nijmegen |
| 03.00 - 04.00pm | Productivity in Italian morphology: a variable-corpus approach Livio Gaeta & Davide Ricca, Torino - hand-out |
| 8 pm | Conference Party |
Saturday, 5th October
| 09.30 - 11.00am | invited talk: Machine Learning for Linguistics Walter Daelemans, Antwerp & Tilburg - slides |
| 11.00 - noon | Verbal Synonymy in Practice: Combining
Corpus-Based and Psycholinguistic Evidence Antti
Arppe, Helsinki & Juhani Järvikivi, Joensuu - slides |
| 12.00 - 01.30pm | --- lunch break--- |
| 01.30 - 02.30pm | Structure and Frequency of Lexical
Semantic Classes: Consequences for Learning Paola
Merlo, Geneva & Suzanne Stevenson, Toronto - slides |
| 02.30 - 03.30pm | An
Approach to Catalan Adjective Lexical Classes by
Clustering Laura Alonso & Gemma Boleda, Barcelona - slides |
| 03.30 - 04.00pm | summary; coffee |
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Harald
Baayen
University of
Nijmegen
Interfaculty
Research Unit for Language and Speech
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Hotel information is available at the following sites
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| Anke Lüdeling
Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Unter den Linden 6 D-10099 Berlin Germany |
| phone: +49-(0)30-20939799 fax: +49-(0)30-2093-9729 qitl@uos.de |
| For
Information on the Study program Cognitive Science or the Institute of Cognitive Science (IKW) at the University of Osnabrueck, please take a look at the web pages: http://www.cogsci.uni-osnabrueck.de |
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