• Conferences

Conferences of Interest to the Lab

1. Psycholinguistics

• Psychonomics ([http://www.psychonomic.org/annual-meeting.html Annual meeting])

  • Deadline: 6/1/2009 for paper or poster, 5/1/2009 for invited symposium. See [http://www.psychonomic.org/meet.html meeting details].

  • Conference: November 19-22 2009, Boston, MA.

  • Presentation types: see [http://www.psychonomic.org/cfp/instructions.html instructions].

  • Summary: multi-track conference with an emphasis on behavioral work. For areas of interest, see [http://www.psychonomic.org/cfp/topic_choices.html topic choices].

• CUNY

  • Deadline: December
  • Conference: late March/beginning of April
  • Summary: This has been our main conference so far, but that may change. Accepts mostly work on sentence processing and is sometimes somewhat narrowly defined. For example, it's hard to get talks with phonological or speech topics. We had reasonable success of computational topics, though occasionally the reviews suggest lack of familiarity with computational approaches. That being said, I love going to CUNY: great people, usually well-organized, not too big, and so it always ends up being a productive and fun time.

• Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) ([http://www.amlap.org/ AMLaP])

  • Deadline: May
  • Conference: Early September, Barcelona
  • Presentation types: same as CUNY

  • Summary: Same audience as CUNY, but more folks from Europe (since it takes place in Europe). Maybe traditionally more accepting of modeling work. Also less limited to sentence processing.

• International Workshop on Language Production ([http://www.lang-prod.org/ IWLP])

  • Conference: 2010 (probably on a bi-annual schedule now)
  • Presentation types: invited talks, posters
  • Summary: Relatively small gathering (~60 people?) focused on language production. Talks are by invitation only, with a restriction that no speaker will be invited more than once. Talks are ~45 minutes, with ~15 minutes for questions. Discussion is heavily encouraged, and there are generally several panel-type sessions.
  • Publications: Work presented here is usually collect for a special issue of Language and Cognitive Processes.

• Experimental Pragmatics ([http://xprag.l2c2.isc.cnrs.fr/XPrag/ XPrag 2009])

  • Conference: 23-25 April, Lyon, France (biannual schedule)
  • Presentation types: oral (25+5 min, ca. 20% chance), posters (ca. 40% chance), invited talks, commentaries on sessions (by invitation only)
  • Summary: Fairly small (~70) but growing group of experimental pragmaticists who gather to talk about the processing of scalar implicatures, presuppositions, perspective-taking, communicative intentions, information structure, metaphor, ad hoc concepts,... Methods are behavioral, psycho-/neurolinguistic. No modeling (yet).
  • Publications: Talks get a proceedings paper.

2. Cognitive Science

• CogSci

• Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)

  • Deadline: Early May
  • Conference: Early December, Vancouver

  • Presentation types: oral (< 2% chance), spot-light poster (2min; < 5%), poster

  • Summary: Annual conference on machine learning on topics related to neural or cognitive themes, but actually pretty much hard core machine learning. About 1,000+ people from CS, engineering, cogsci, computational linguistics, neuroscience. Both theoretical and method related work is accepted as long as it meets the (high!) formal standards.
• ICCM

3. Language and Cognitive Development

• Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) ([http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/])

  • Deadline: May 15, 2009.
  • Conference: November 6-8, 2009 at Boston University.
  • Presentation types: Primarily talks (20 min. each), some posters. 2008 stats: 450 submissions, 30% acceptance rate (87 talks, 66 posters).
  • Summary: Major conference for research on first- and second-language acquisition. Primarily parallel sessions. Roughly 500 attendees.

• Sixth Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society ([http://cds2009.spc.uchicago.edu/index.php])

  • Deadline: June 1, 2009.

  • Conference: October 16-17, 2009 in San Antonio, Texas. 2009 Plenary speakers: Michael Tomasello (MPI) & Josh Tenenbaum (MIT).

  • Presentation types: Symposia/workshops (1 hr, 45 min each) and posters.
  • Summary: Conference for research on change and continuity in development (including but not exclusively pertaining to language development). Submitted symposia/workshops/poster sessions presented in parallel sessions. Roughly 400 attendees.

• International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS) 2010 ([http://www.isisweb.org/])

  • Deadline: TBA.
  • Conference: March 10-14, 2010 in Baltimore, Maryland.
  • Presentation types: Talks and posters. Submission format TBA.
  • Summary: Conference for research on the development of sensation, perception, cognition, emotion, language, and social behavior. Conference includes invited and investigator-initiated symposia, lectures, and poster presentations.

4. Computational Linguistics

• ACL: yearly conference on natural language processing; mostly not directly related to work on human language processing, but occasionally formal approaches (e.g. machine learning inspired work) on human language processing are presented at ACL. This is a good venue for presentations of collaborations with CS. It's a pretty prestigious conference.

  • NAACL: North American version of ACL, held yearly, unless ACL located in North America.

  • EACL: same as NAACL, but for Europe; held yearly, unless ACL located in Europe.
• EMNLP: yearly
• COLING: every other year

• [http://www.aclweb.org/ ACLWeb] (external CL resource page)

• LREC: every other year. Presentations are mostly concerned with new language resources. From our lab, Carlos Gomez Gallo has submitted. Several people in CS occasionally submit.

Joel Tetreault maintains a [http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/tetreaul/conferences.html calendar] with call for papers deadlines and conferences dates for a lot of the computational linguistic conferences. He does not include some of the dialogue specific ones such as:

• SIGDIAL : Every year. It is collocated with either ACL or Interspeech.
• SEMDIAL : Every year. Dedicated to dialogue and semantic work. Its name changes depending on the location where it is being held. In 2008 it was LONDIAL, since it took place in London. (cute).

5. Linguistics

• Linguistics Society of America (LSA) ([http://www.lsadc.org/info/meet-annual.cfm LSA])

  • Deadline: Beginning September (need to be member for submission; can become member along with submission)
  • Conference: January 7th-10th 2010 in Baltimore, MD.
  • Presentation types: oral (20+10), poster
  • Summary: Annual linguistics meeting. About 1,000+ linguists from all over the world. Many (6ish) parallel sessions about all types of linguistic work. Sometimes hard to attract enough people with processing or computational interest, but it's getting better. Good for overview talks, and to get to know people (if you're up for the social stress). We usually have some presentations there, and I (Florian) try to attend every other year.

6. Statistics

• Conference on Quantitative Social Science Research Using R ([http://www.cis.fordham.edu/QR2009/index.html QR 2009])

  • Deadline: rolling, May 15 final submission date. Acceptance notification within 2 weeks of submission.
  • Conference: June 18-19, 2009 in Manhattan (hosted by Fordham University).
  • Presentation types: Platform session talks, parallel session talks, posters
  • Summary: This conference is about applications of the R software and graphics system to important policy and research problems. It provides an excellent opportunity to bring together researchers from various disciplines using R in their work.
  • Publications: All accepted papers have to be accompanied by R code and data. Code and data will be made available on CD-ROM. Full papers will be published by Springer in the UseR! series.

• Joint Statistical Meetings ([http://www.amstat.org/meetings/JSM/2009/ JSM])

  • Deadline: May 11 2009.
  • Conference: August 1-6 2009 in Washington, D.C.

  • Presentation types: many. See [http://www.amstat.org/meetings/JSM/2009/index.cfm?fuseaction=abstracts abstract submission] and [http://www.amstat.org/meetings/JSM/2009/index.cfm?fuseaction=guidelines participation guidlines].

7. Mathematical/Quantitative Psychology

• Society for Mathematical Psychology annual meeting ([http://www.mathpsych.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=60:the-2009-meeting&catid=41:meetings SMP])

  • Deadline: April 3, 2009.

  • Conference: Workshop on Bayesian Models for Cognitive Science on morning of August 1 2009. Conference August 1-4 2009 at the University of Amsterdam. Designed to be compatible with CogSci.

• Annual Interdisciplinary Conference ([http://aris.ss.uci.edu/HIPLab/AIC/ AIC])

  • Conference: February 8-13 2009.
  • Summary: Best kept secret in Cognitive Science. Great talks, skiing.