INFO

WELCOME TO Compℹ︎La 2024 !

Here are some more detailed information about this edition of COMPILA.

TOPICS

Compℹ︎La meetings concern the study of language done through the lens of complex systems and statistical mechanics.

In particular, this year we focus on the following topics and contributions:

• Inter- and intra-language variation: 

  • • Linguistic typology

      • • A. Jon-And: Exploring system-internal dynamics in the evolution of grammar

        • C. R. Kitching: Linguistic temperature on networks

    • Language variation

• • • • • A. Lipowski: Language ambiguities in signaling game - the stabilizing role of context

        • C. Cuskley: Rethinking variation as a core property of adaptive language systems

        • C. Houghton: A new iterated learning model of language evolution

        • P. Rosillo-Rodes: Lexical analysis of a Flamenco lyrics corpus

• Language change and statistical properties:

  • • Language dynamics

      • • M. San Miguel: Prestige and volatility in Language Contact Dynamics

        • G. Cachoa-Ocampo: Modeling Language Survivable: The Case of Indigenous Languages in Mexico

    • Quantitative linguistics 

      • • A. Corral, The brevity law can be precisely formulated in terms of a scaling law: results for different languages.

        • T. Mizuguchi: Return map analysis of word sequences

        • J. Martin Arista: Historical language generation. Structural evaluation of prosified Old English poetry

• Language evolution 

  • • • • E. Round: Modelling the evolution of inflection systems

        • J. Michaud: Combinatorial evolution and self-organization of linguistic systems

A bit of history of COMPILA

This is the 3rd edition of Compℹ︎La, after the previous successful editions:

COMPILA2022, which was a satellite of CCS2022 (Palma de Mallorca)

COMPILA2023, satellite of StatPhys28, Tokyo, Japan

COMPILA2024, satellite of CCS2024, Exeter

COMPILA2025     (?)

Time Table: see Program