Program
July 19, 2018
09:00 - 09:10 Welcome and Opening Session
09:10 - 09:30 Session I - Semantics
Session Chair: Thierry Poibeau
09:10 - 09:30 Predicting Brain Activation with WordNet Embeddings
João António Rodrigues, Ruben Branco, João Silva, Chakaveh Saedi, António Branco
09:30 - 10:30 Invited Talk I
Neural time series as data for computational linguistics
John Hale ( University of Georgia - USA )
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:50 Session II - Production
Session Chair: Thomas Kluth
11:00 - 11:20 Do Speakers Produce Discourse Connectives Rationally?
Frances Yung and Vera Demberg
11:20 - 11:50 Language Production Dynamics with Recurrent Neural Networks
Jesús Calvillo and Matthew Crocker
11:50 - 12:30 Poster Session
Session Chair: Thomas Kluth
11:50 - 12:30 Multi-glance Reading Model for Text Understanding
Pengcheng Zhu, Yujiu Yang, Wenqiang Gao, Yi Liu
11:50 - 12:30 Predicting Japanese Word Order in Double Object Constructions
Masayuki Asahara, Satoshi Nambu, Shin-Ichiro Sano
11:50 - 12:30 Affordances in Grounded Language Learning
Stephen McGregor and KyungTae Lim
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Invited Talk II
The Cognitive Core of Human Language: Pick up the second green ball, Hal
15:00 - 15:30 Session III - Processing
Session Chair: António Branco
15:00 - 15:30 Rating Distributions and Bayesian Inference: Enhancing Cognitive Models of Spatial Language Use
Thomas Kluth and Holger Schultheis
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00 Session IV - Syntax and Parsing
Session Chair: Frances Yung
16:00 - 16:30 The Role of Syntax During Pronoun Resolution: Evidence from fMRI
Jixing Li, Murielle Fabre, Wen-Ming Luh, John Hale
16:30 - 17:00 A Sound and Complete Left-Corner Parsing for Minimalist Grammars
Miloš Stanojević and Edward Stabler
17:00 - 17:30 Panel, Business Meeting and Closing Session