HLP Lab Corpus Group Meeting Schedule

Spring '11

Week	Date	Topic
1	24 Jan 11	Organizational Meeting
2	31 Jan 11	Canceled (finishing up CogSci submissions)
3	07 Feb 11	Frank, Jaeger, ... (Judith)
4	14 Feb 11	David Beaver (Sarah)
5	21 Feb 11	Kello et al / Moscoso del Prado (Esteban)
6	28 Feb 11	Training data (Alex)
7	07 Mar 11	Spring Break (No meeting)
8	14 Mar 11	CUNY dry runs - Alex/Thomas and Peter
9	21 Mar 11	CUNY dry runs
10	28 Mar 11	Return from CUNY (No meeting)
11	04 Apr 11	Ting's variety show
12	11 Apr 11	Jordana Heller (Meliora 366)
13	18 Apr 11	Thomas Hoeberg (Meliora 366)
14	25 Apr 11	Dave Kleinschmidt - CMCL paper
15	02 May 11	Functional Pressures on Language
16	09 May 11	Mehdi
17	16 May 11	Mehdi (continued)

(Florian) I suggest we read Chang et al.'s paper (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2009.07.006). This fits in well with Alison, Austin, and Masha's interests I believe and it would be good for everyone to know some of Chang's work. We can accompany this reading with Chang et al. 2006 "Becoming Syntactic" (http://www.kecl.ntt.co.jp/clip/member/chang/papers/chang,dell,bock.pdf). Masha and Alison would you be willing to prepare this meeting? Maybe we all read one of the Chang papers and one McDonald paper (e.g. http://lcnl.wisc.edu/publications/archive/5.pdf) on acquisition with the other Chang paper being optional?
(Florian) Brian Roark, Asaf Bachrach, Carlos Cardenas, and Christophe Pallier. 2009. Deriving lexical and syntactic expectation-based measures for psycholinguistic modeling via incremental top-down parsing. Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Langauge Processing, pages 324–333.
(Florian) S. L. Frank. 2010. The role of world knowledge in sentence comprehension: an information-theoretic analysis and a connectionist simulation. Manuscript in preparation.
(Florian) David Beaver and Dan Velleman. 2010. The communicative significance of primary and secondary accents.