Program
Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL) 2020
CMCL 2020 will have both oral presentations and poster presentations.
Location and Date
Punta Cana, Dominican Republic [moved to Virtual Location because of COVID-19]
Time zone of Dominican Republic: Atlantic Standard Time (GMT -4)
November 19, 2020
Programme
9:30–9:45 Introduction (GATHER.TOWN)
9:45–10:45 Keynote Talk: Suzanne Stevenson (ZOOM)
- How Languages Carve Up the World: Cognitive Explanation through Computational Modeling
10:45–11:15 Break
11:15–12:15 Session 1: Oral Presentations (ZOOM)
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What Determines the Order of Verbal Dependents in Hindi? Effects of Efficiency in Comprehension and Production – Kartik Sharma, Richard Futrell and Samar Husain
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Images and Imagination: Automated Analysis of Priming Effects Related to Autism Spectrum Disorder and Developmental Language Disorder – Michaela Regneri, Diane King, Fahreen Walji and Olympia Palikara
12:15–13:30 Lunch Break
13:30–13:45 Poster Booster (GATHER.TOWN)
13:45–14:45 Poster Session (GATHER.TOWN)
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Production-based Cognitive Models as a Test Suite for Reinforcement Learning Algorithms – Adrian Brasoveanu and Jakub Dotlacil
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Evaluating Word Embeddings for Language Acquisition – Raquel G. Alhama, Caroline Rowland and Evan Kidd
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Guessing the Age of Acquisition of Italian Lemmas through Linear Regression – Irene Russo
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Word Co-occurrence in Child-directed Speech Predicts Children’s Free Word Associations – Abdellah Fourtassi
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Development of Multi-level Linguistic Alignment in Child-adult Conversations – Thomas Misiek, Benoit Favre and Abdellah Fourtassi
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Conditioning, but on Which Distribution? Grammatical Gender in German Plural Inflection – Kate McCurdy, Adam Lopez and Sharon Goldwater
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Probabilistic Weighting of Perspectives in Dyadic Communication (cross-submission) – Rachel A Ryskin, Suzanne Stevenson, Daphna Heller
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Inferring Symmetry in Natural Language (Findings of EMNLP) – Chelsea Tanchip, Lei Yu, Aotao Xu, Yang Xu
14:45–15:45 Session 2: Oral Presentations (ZOOM)
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Learning Pronoun Case from Distributional Cues: Flexible Frames for Case Acquisition – Xiaomeng Ma, Martin Chodorow and Virginia Valian
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Probabilistic Predictions of People Perusing: Evaluating Metrics of Language Model Performance for Psycholinguistic Modeling – Yiding Hao, Simon Mendelsohn, Rachel Sterneck, Randi Martinez and Robert Frank
15:45–16:45 Keynote Talk: Richard Futrell (ZOOM)
- Information Processing, Communication, and Word Order
16:45–17:00 Closing Remarks (ZOOM)