LAMP

Language Acquisition, Modeling and Processing

LAMP is an interdisciplinary talk series aimed at surveying the range of current research across Linguistic, Psycholinguistic and Computational approaches to language and presenting it to a diverse audience within Cognitive Science.

Schedule

LAMP meets Friday afternoons, roughly bi-weekly. In Spring 1999, LAMP's first semester, we are pleased to announce the following speakers:

Feb 5	Brian McElree New York University On the nature of the memory structures that subserve parsing.
Feb 19	Lois Bloom Columbia University The child, not the language, is at the center of language acquisition.
Mar 5	Bob Carpenter Lucent Technologies Bell Labs At 11am in RuCCS Natural language call routing: a robust, self-organizing approach.
Mar 26 Double feature	Mark Johnson Brown University At 11am in RuCCS, followed by pizza lunch. Log-linear models of syntactic preferences Katherine Demuth Brown University At 3pm in Linguistics, 18 Seminary Place Room 108. Prosodic constraints in early Spanish
Apr 9	Bill Badecker Johns Hopkins University Lexical morphology and the calculation of agreement
April 23	Marilyn Walker ATT Labs Research Identifying poor recognizer performance in spoken dialogue

Talks will generally be held 1:30 - 3:00 in Room A139 (the playroom), Psych Building Addition, Busch Campus. Note: Brian McElree's talk on Feb 5 will begin at 2pm.

Contacts

For more information about LAMP, contact any of the faculty organizers:

Linking

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