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)

  • What Determines the Order of Verbal Dependents in Hindi? Effects of Efficiency in Comprehension and Production – Kartik Sharma, Richard Futrell and Samar Husain

  • 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)

  • Production-based Cognitive Models as a Test Suite for Reinforcement Learning Algorithms – Adrian Brasoveanu and Jakub Dotlacil

  • Evaluating Word Embeddings for Language Acquisition – Raquel G. Alhama, Caroline Rowland and Evan Kidd

  • Guessing the Age of Acquisition of Italian Lemmas through Linear Regression – Irene Russo

  • Word Co-occurrence in Child-directed Speech Predicts Children’s Free Word Associations – Abdellah Fourtassi

  • Development of Multi-level Linguistic Alignment in Child-adult Conversations – Thomas Misiek, Benoit Favre and Abdellah Fourtassi

  • Conditioning, but on Which Distribution? Grammatical Gender in German Plural Inflection – Kate McCurdy, Adam Lopez and Sharon Goldwater

  • Probabilistic Weighting of Perspectives in Dyadic Communication (cross-submission) – Rachel A Ryskin, Suzanne Stevenson, Daphna Heller

  • 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)

  • Learning Pronoun Case from Distributional Cues: Flexible Frames for Case Acquisition – Xiaomeng Ma, Martin Chodorow and Virginia Valian

  • 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)