1 / 6

Language Acquisition Reading Group: the 1 st Meeting

Language Acquisition Reading Group: the 1 st Meeting. Overview of Spring 2001. 1 st round of presentations Overview of LA: Natasha (Psy) Lexical acquisition: ? Grammar induction: Ben (LTI) Discourse learning: Klaus (LTI) Knowledge representation and inferences: Michael (LTI)

hollie
Download Presentation

Language Acquisition Reading Group: the 1 st Meeting

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Language Acquisition Reading Group: the 1st Meeting

  2. Overview of Spring 2001 • 1st round of presentations • Overview of LA: Natasha (Psy) • Lexical acquisition: ? • Grammar induction: Ben (LTI) • Discourse learning: Klaus (LTI) • Knowledge representation and inferences: Michael (LTI) • Linguistics perspective: Eric Nyberg (LTI) • Cognitive Science perspective: ?

  3. Overview of Spring 2001 (cont’d) • Invited talks • Psychology (Cog. Sci.) – March; coordinated by Kenji • Computer Science – April; coordinated by Ben • Other talks • (tentative) Jan. 30 Allen Gorin (AT&T)

  4. Format • Meeting every other week, approx. 2 hours each • Room: Newell-Simon Hall 4513 (in LTI) • LA is divided into 6 tracks • Reading material is required for each talk • Web-based distribution at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~benhdj/LARG/bib.html • Speakers • Speakers are not assumed to be experts of the field • Speakers with similar interest may want to coordinate with each other

  5. Schedule Discussion • Proposal: move the meetings to Thursday 1700-1900 • Lisa and Michael can’t make it at 1600-1800 • Pizza/sandwiches might be possible, but…

  6. Misc. • Website • Currently at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~benhdj/LARG; possible to move under LTI website? • Online resources (useful links): anyone? • Mailing list • Kenji is coordinating with SCS Facilities

More Related