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Meeting Summaries and Slides

Apr 5, 2002 (NSH 4513), 1530-1700:
Participants (9): Ralf Brown, Krzysztof Czuba, Robert Frederking, Benjamin Han, Alon Lavie, Ariadna Font Llitjos, Erik Peterson, Katharina Probst, Klaus Zechner

Slides: Semi-automatic learning of syntactic transfer rules for machine translation (Katharina Probst)
Track: Grammar Induction (T2)

Slides: Rethinking the Logical Problem of Language Acquisition (Brian MacWhinney)
Track: Cognitive Science Perspective (P2)

Track: Lexical Acquisition (T1)

Slides: Language Learning in Optimality Theory (Harold C Daume)
Track: Linguistic Perspective (P3)

Slides: Learning to Read a Non-alphabetic Script - Chinese (Erik Peterson)
Track: Cognitive Science Perspective (P2)

Slides: Grammar induction by Bayesian model merging (Guy Lebanon)
Track: Grammar Induction (T2)

Slides: Learning Language in Logic (Michael Kohlhase)
Track: Knowledge representation/inferences for LA (T4)

Slides: Listening to the animals: What nonhuman models can tell us about the role of experience in the development of speech perception (Lori Holt)
Track: Cognitive Science Perspective (P2)

Slides: Identifying Clues of Evaluation and Speculation in Text (Janyce Wiebe)
Track: Discourse/Pragmatics Learning (T3)

Slides: Language Learnability (Benjamin Han)
Track: Grammar Induction (T2)

Slides: How Children Acquire Meanings of Nouns and Verbs (Rachel Chung)
Track: Lexical Acquisition (T1)

Slides: Computational Approaches to Parameter-Setting Models of Language Acquisition (Eric Nyberg)
Track: Linguistic Perspective (P3)

Topic: Semantic Information Process of Spoken Language (Allen Gorin, AT&T Research)

Slides:

1. Overview of LARG in Spring 2001 (Ben)
2. Overview of Language Acquisition and Bilingualism (Natasha)

1. Confirming the length and frequency: LARG will be a 2-hour bi-weekly meeting.
2. There will be 2 invited talks, tentatively scheduled in March (from SCS) and April (from Psychology).
3. Copying the reading material: For the material available online the participants should be able to download from the LARG website. For the other material which only exists in paper form, this is still undecided.
4. Regarding adding/removing subject areas: the removal of Discourse Learning was rejected.
5. Coherence of the presentation: The first round of the presentations (5 in total) will be at introduction level in order to get everyone up to speed. Questionnaires will be sent out to probe the expertise of the participants in each of the 5 subject areas to decide the speakers (could be jointly presented).
6. The exact schedule of the 1st meeting in Spring 2001 is still undecided; again questionnaires will be sent out to collect the bad time slots for the participants.
7. Natasha from Psychology recommended several prospective participants from Pitt.

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