08:50-09:00 AM

Opening Remarks
Frank Keller, David Reitter

09:00-09:30 AM

TESTING THE ROBUSTNESS OF ONLINE WORD SEGMENTATION: EFFECTS OF LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY AND PHONETIC VARIATION Luc Boruta1,  Sharon Peperkamp2,  Benoît Crabbé3,  Emmanuel Dupoux2 Univ. Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, ALPAGE, UMR-I 001 INRIA & LSCP-DEC, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, École Normale Supérieure & Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique1, LSCP-DEC, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, École Normale Supérieure & Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique2, Univ. Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, ALPAGE, UMR-I 001 INRIA3, luc.boruta@inria.fr

09:30-10:00 AM

A BAYESIAN BELIEF UPDATING MODEL OF PHONETIC RECALIBRATION AND SELECTIVE ADAPTATION Dave Kleinschmidt1 and T. Florian Jaeger2 Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester1, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester2, dave.f.kleinschmidt@gmail.com

10:00-10:30 AM

UNSUPERVISED SYNTACTIC CHUNKING WITH ACOUSTIC CUES: COMPUTATIONAL MODELS FOR PROSODIC BOOTSTRAPPING John Pate and Sharon Goldwater Institute for Language, Cognition, and Computation, The School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh j.k.pate@sms.ed.ac.uk

10:30-11:00 AM

Morning Break

11:00-11:30 AM

A STATISTICAL TEST FOR GRAMMAR Charles Yang University of Pennsylvania charles.yang@ling.upenn.edu

11:30-12:00 AM

TOP-DOWN RECOGNIZERS FOR MCFGS AND MGS Edward Stabler UCLA stabler@ucla.edu

12:00-12:30 PM

EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEARNABILITY AND LINGUISTIC UNIVERSALS Anna N. Rafferty1,  Thomas L. Griffiths1,  Marc Ettlinger2 UC Berkeley1, Northwestern University2, rafferty@eecs.berkeley.edu

12:30-2:00 PM

Lunch Break

2:00-2 PM

COMPOSING AND UPDATING VERB ARGUMENT EXPECTATIONS: A DISTRIBUTIONAL SEMANTIC MODEL Alessandro Lenci University of Pisa alessandro.lenci@ling.unipi.it

2:30-3 PM

WM LOAD INFLUENCES THE INTERPRETATION OF REFERRING EXPRESSIONS Jacolien van Rij,  Hedderik van Rijn,  Petra Hendriks University of Groningen J.C.van.Rij@rug.nl

3:00-3:30 PM

CHAMELEONS IN IMAGINED CONVERSATIONS: A NEW APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING COORDINATION OF LINGUISTIC STYLE IN DIALOGS Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil and Lillian Lee Cornell University cristian@cs.cornell.edu

3:30-4 PM

Afternoon Break

4:00-4:30 PM

CLASSIFICATION OF ATYPICAL LANGUAGE IN AUTISM Emily T. Prud'hommeaux,  Brian Roark,  Lois M. Black,  Jan van Santen Oregon Health and Science University emily@cslu.ogi.edu

4:30-5 PM

COLOURFUL LANGUAGE: MEASURING WORD-COLOUR ASSOCIATIONS Saif Mohammad National Research Council Canada uvgotsaif@gmail.com

5:00-5:30 PM

A SURVIVAL ANALYSIS OF FIXATION TIMES IN READING Mattias Nilsson and Joakim Nivre Uppsala University mattias.nilsson@lingfil.uu.se