Logistics | Schedule | Organizers | Sponsors

Bridging the Developmental Divide:
Sentence Processing Meets Word and Grammar Learning

Institute for Research in Cognitive Science (IRCS)
University of Pennsylvania
3401 Walnut Street, Philadelphia PA
November 30th - December 1st

This workshop brings together computationalists and experimentalists interested in the relationship between word learning, grammar learning and sentence processing. We are especially interested increasing discussions among researchers who take probabilistic and/or Bayesian approaches to theorizing within these areas.

Please note that this workshop is intended for Penn students, faculty and post-docs, plus students of the invited speakers. Other attendees are by invitation only.

Logistics

Click here for directions to Penn and IRCS, where the workshop will be held.

Click here to register for the workshop. Registration for non-speakers is $10 for students and $25 for faculty and post-docs. Dinner on Friday night is also available via registration for an extra $15, but seating is limited. Dinner will be at Bubble House. Please register online at the link provided.

Speaker housing has already been arranged. For others who might be visiting from out of town, here are some hotels in the area.

On Campus (University City):

The Inn at Penn ($$$)
3600 Sansom Street
(215) 222-0200 / (800) 231-4587

Sheraton University City Hotel ($$)
36th & Chestnut Streets
(215) 387-8000 / (800) 325-3535

Short cab ride away in Center City:

Windsor Hotel ($$)
1700 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
(877) 784-8379

Club Quarters ($)
1628 Chestnut Street
(215) 282-5000

Schedule

Friday:

10:00 - 10:30

10:30 - 10:40

10:40 - 11:20

11:20 - 11:40

11:40 - 12:00

12:00 - 1:45

1:45 - 2:00

2:00 - 2:55

2:55 - 3:15

3:15 - 3:30

3:30 - 4:10

4:10 - 4:30

4:30 - 5:10

5:10 - 5:40

6:30

Coffee, tea, and pastries available at IRCS

Welcome

Speakers: John Trueswell & Lila Gleitman (University of Pennsylvania)
Word and Grammar Learning Within a Sentence Processing Framework

Discussion

Break - Pick up brown bag lunch for noon lecture (lunch is not provided)

Keynote Speaker: Michael Tanenhaus (University of Rochester)
Miniature lexicons and languages in the visual world: a strategy for examining learning and real-time processing

Talk also serves as the weekly IRCS Colloquium and is open to all.

Break

Speaker: Josh Tenenbaum and Michael Frank (MIT)
Bayesian models of word learning

Discussion

Break

Speaker: Mark Johnson (Brown University)
Bayesian models of language acquisition or Where do the rules come from?

Discussion

Speaker: Chen Yu (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Multimodal Statistical Learning: Linking Words to World

General Discussion

Dinner at Bubble House, 3404 Sansom Street (pre-registration required)

Saturday:

9:30 - 10:00

10:00 - 10:40

10:40 - 11:00

11:00 - 11:40

11:40 - 12:00

12:00 - 1:30

1:30 - 2:10

2:10 - 2:30

2:30 - 3:10

3:10 - 3:30

3:30 - 4:00

4:00 - 4:40

4:40 - 5:00

5:00 - 5:30

Coffee, tea, and pastries available at IRCS

Speaker: Fernando Pereira (University of Pennsylvania)
Three myopic philosophers and an elephant: probabilistic, information-theoretic, and discriminative machine learning methods in language

Discussion

Speaker: Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania)
Recursion in language and in formal systems: Connections to processing

Discussion

Break for lunch (lunch is not provided)

Speaker: Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh)
The Computational Problem of Language Acquisition

Discussion

Speaker: Jesse Snedeker (Harvard University)
Data from the crossroads: cautionary tales about verbs, lexicalism and the syntax-semantics interface

Discussion

Break

Speaker: Elizabeth Wonnacott (University of Oxford)
Acquiring and Processing Verb Argument Structures: A Rational Approach

Discussion

Closing Remarks

Organizers:

John Trueswell, email: trueswel at psych dot upenn dot edu
Fernando Pereira, email: pereira at cis dot upenn dot edu
Lila Gleitman, email: gleitman at psych dot upenn dot edu
Aravind Joshi, email: joshi at cis dot upenn dot edu

Sponsors:

School of Arts & Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
School of Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania

Institute for Research in Cognitive Science
University of Pennsylvania

3401 Walnut Street, Suite 400A
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228

Tel: (215) 898-0357
Fax: (215) 573-9247