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Thematic Session on Computational PsycholinguisticsChair:
Session Description:This thematic session will include empirical and theoretical studies on psychologically motivated computational models of human language. Giving this area a forum at ACL provides an opportunity to focus on theoretical and empirical investigations in computational linguistics from a cognitive perspective, at a time when the ACL is more and more dominated by work on natural language processing applications. Moreover, computational psycholinguistics has a deep concern with the empirical basis of research on language, a surprising commonality with the probabilistic approaches that are so emphasized of late. Including a focused session in this area at the conference offers the opportunity to build bridges between two areas that are both concerned with non-introspective data, statistical methods, and the relationship between linguistic competence and performance.We solicit psychologically relevant work in computational linguistics, emphasizing the of computational modeling of human processes as opposed to NL applications. Areas of interest include (but are not limited to):
As noted above, we hope the session will provide an opportunity for dialogue that bridges the gap between applied probabilistic methods and cognitively relevant probabilistic models; however, we encourage high quality submissions in any area of computational psycholinguistics.
SubmissionsSubmissions should be sent directly to the ACL Program Committee chairs as with regular main session submissions by the January 25 deadline. Information can be found at the ACL '99 web site. Submissions should be marked for inclusion in this thematic session. We look forward to reviewing your submissions. Please feel free to contact us with any questions you may have.
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