Co-sponsored by IRCS, CIS, the Department of Linguistics
& John
Benjamins Publishing
17 January 2003
Program | |||
| 8:45 | Welcome and Introductory Remarks | ||
| 9:00 | 1 | Harris's categorial grammar | Richard Oehrle |
| 9:25 | Discussion | ||
| 9:30 | 2 | How much complexity is needed for language description? | Aravind Joshi CIS, Penn |
| 9:55 | Discussion | ||
| 10:00 | Break | ||
| 10:15 | 3 | From text to information by computer | Naomi Sager Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences |
| 10:40 | Discussion | ||
| 10:45 | 4 | Modeling information content by minimum grammatical description | Stephen Johnson Informatics, Columbia |
| 11:10 | Discussion | ||
| 11:15 | 5 | Formal grammar, information theory, and learning theory | Fernando Pereira Chair, CIS, Penn |
| 11:40 | Discussion | ||
| 11:45 | Break | ||
| 12:00 | Keynote | Statistical language learning: Blending new and old approaches to language acquisition | Elissa Newport Psychology, U. Rochester |
| 12:45 | Discussion | ||
| 1:00 | Lunch | ||
| 2:00 | 6 | Distributional evidence, imperfect learning, and language change | Anthony Kroch Chair, Linguistics, Penn |
| 2:25 | Discussion | ||
| 2:30 | 7 | Language learning without maturation | Lila Gleitman Psychology, Penn |
| 2:55 | Discussion | ||
| 3:00 | 8 | Humans do it too: Use of lexical statistics in a probabilistic parsing system | John Trueswell Psychology, Penn |
| 3:25 | Discussion | ||
| 3:30 | Break | ||
| 3:45 | 9 | Harris and Generative Semantics vindicated: The case of German V-clusters | Pieter Seuren Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Nijmegen, Netherlands |
| 4:10 | Discussion | ||
| 4:15 | 10 | Linguistic philosophy vs. linguistic science | Francis Lin Philosophy, St Hugh's College, Oxford Computer Science, University of London |
| 4:40 | Discussion | ||
| 4:45 | 11 | The syntax of science and the science of syntax | Paul Mattick Philosophy, Adelphi University |
| 5:00 | Discussion | ||
| 5:05 | 12 | Reflections on the mathematization of natural language | Thomas Ryckman Philosophy, U.C. Berkeley |
| 5:30 | Discussion | ||
| 5:35 | Reception | ||