There will be a free one-day workshop on the above theme at MIT.
Noam Chomsky, who has been wrong for the past 50 years, will be one
of the speakers. For those who can't get to the meeting, a video
will be posted on-line afterwards. (01)
John Sowa (02)
-------- Original Message --------
> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 12:47:08
> From: Robert Berwick [berwick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Subject: Where Does Syntax Come From? Have We All Been Wrong?
>
> Where Does Syntax Come From? Have We All Been Wrong?
>
> Date: 19-Oct-2007 - 19-Oct-2007
> Location: Cambridge, MA, USA
> Contact: Robert Berwick
> Contact Email: berwick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Syntax
>
> Meeting Description:
>
> The impetus for this workshop, borrowing from a recent review by
> Yang in TICS (2004), is that 'Recent demonstrations of statistical
> learning in infants have reinvigorated the innateness versus learning
> debate in language acquisition,' particularly regarding syntax.
> We aim to reexamine this issue in a single forum from the
> computational, cognitive, and formal linguistics perspectives. Our
> intent is to examine recent applications of statistical learning
> theory to language acquisition.
>
> Where Does Syntax Come From? Have We All Been Wrong?
>
> When:
> Friday, October 19th, 2007, 9 am - 5:45 pm
> (breakfast 9-9:30; lunch 12:00-1:00; afternoon refreshments)
>
> Where: (Note room change!)
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> Wong Auditorium
> Building E51 (Tang Center)
> 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
> (http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=e51&mapsearch=go)
>
> Webcast:
> This event will not be streamed live but will
> subsequently become available on the web via
> http://mitworld.mit.edu. Also available via Apple and iTunes at
> iTunes U.
>
> Registration:
> No advance registration required, no fee - open to all.
> RSVP's are appreciated but certainly not required.
>
>
> Program:
>
> 9:00-9:30 Breakfast (Coffee and bagels)
> In Foyer outside the Wong Auditorium
>
> 9:30-10:00 Opening Remarks:
> Robert Berwick (MIT)
> Michael Coen (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
>
> 10:00-10:45 Lila Gleitman (University of Pennsylvania)
> ''Human Simulations of Language Learning''
>
> 10:45-11:15 Christopher Manning (Stanford University)
> ''Machine Learning of Language from Distributional
> Evidence''
>
> 11:15-12:00 Partha Niyogi (University of Chicago)
> ''The Computational Nature of Language Learning''
>
> 12:00-1:00 Lunch
>
> 1:00-1:30 Josh Tenenbaum (MIT), Amy Perfors (MIT),
> & Terry Regier (University of Chicago)
> ''Explorations in Language Learnability Using
> Probabilistic Grammars and Child-Directed speech''
>
> 1:30-2:10 Howard Lasnik & Juan Uriagereka (UMD)
> ''Structure Dependence, the Rational Learner, and
> Putnam's 'Sane Person'''
>
> 2:10-3:10 Noam Chomsky (MIT)
> ''Remarks and Reflections''
>
> 3:10-3:30 Coffee Break
>
> 3:30-4:00 Sandiway Fong (University of Arizona)
> ''Statistical Natural Language Parsing: Reliable Models
> of Language?''
>
> 4:00-4:30 William Sakas & Janet Dean Fodor (CCNY)
> '''Ideal' Language Learning and the Psychological
> Resource Problem''
>
> 15 minute break
>
> 4:45-5:45 Panel discussion:
> Charles Yang (University of Pennsylvania)
> Jean-Roger Vergnaud (USC)
> Anna-Maria di Sciullo (University of Québec)
> Norbert Hornstein (UMD)
> Robert Freiden (Princeton University & Université Paris)
>
> Organizers:
> Robert C. Berwick, MIT, berwick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Michael Coen, University of Wisconsin-Madison, mhcoen@xxxxxxxxxxx
> (03)
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