Workshop on Distributional Methods in Language Modelling

Wednesday 28 August 2002

School of Computer Science
The University of Birmingham

Chair: Joe Levy


Registration is free, but please let Joe Levy know that you will be attending, so that appropriate catering arrangements can be made.

Programme

We will meet at 9.30am for tea/coffee and the talks will start at 10.00am. We will break for tea/coffee during the morning and afternoon and have an hour for a buffet lunch. The aim is to finish the talks by about 5.30pm and adjourn to a suitable pub and then restaurant.

The workshop will be informal and include the following talks. The exact timetable will be announced on the day.

Integrating phonological and distributional sources of information in finding syntactic categories
Padraic Monaghan (Warwick)

Simplicity: a cure for overgeneralizations in language acquisition?
Luca Onnis (Warwick), Matthew Roberts (Warwick) & Nick Chater (Warwick)

Informing Connectionist Psycholinguistics through Corpus Analyses
Morten Christiansen (Cornell)

Reconceptualising Semantic Context Effects in Lexical Processing
Scott McDonald (Edinburgh)

Self Organizing Dimensional Reduction Schemes for Corpus Derived Semantic Representations
Valerie Hazarika (Birmingham) & John Bullinaria (Birmingham)

The Relationship between Part of Speech and Co-occurrence Statistics
Joe Levy (Greenwich) & John Bullinaria (Birmingham)

Acquiring Rich Lexical Representations from Unlabeled Corpora by Accumulation of Predictions
Fermin Moscoso del Prado Martin (Nijmegen) & Magnus Sahlgren (Kista, Sweden)

The Relationship Between Form and Meaning in the Mental Lexicon
Richard Shillcock (Edinburgh)

Location

Room UG40, ground floor of the University of Birmingham, School of Computer Science Building, Number 14a on the webmap.


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