The Northeast Computational Workshop (NECPhon) will be held this Saturday, Oct 26, 2013, at MIT. The program is below. All events will be held in the Stata Center in 32-D461.
11:30 Coffee/lunch
12:00 Ezer Rasin (MIT)
An evaluation metric for Optimality Theory
(joint work with Roni Katzir, Tel Aviv University)
12:30 Joe Pater and Robert Staubs (UMass)
Modeling Learning Trajectories with Batch Gradient Descent
1:00 Tal Linzen and Gillian Gallagher (NYU)
Modeling the timecourse of generalization in phonotactic learning
1:30-1:45 break
1:45 Jane Chandlee (University of Delaware)
Strictly Local Phonological Processes
2:15 Anthony Brohan (MIT)
A case study in assimilation: The view from PBase
2:45-3:00 break
3:00 Naomi Feldman (UMD), Caitlin Richter (UMD), Josh Falk (U Chicago), and Aren Jansen (JHU)
Predicting listeners’ perceptual biases using low-level speech features
3:30 Sean Martin (NYU)
Phonetic category learning with unsupervised cue selection
4:00-4:15 break
4:15 Tamas Biro (Yale)
Title TBA
4:45 Adam Jardine (University of Delaware)
Computationally, tone is different
End: 5:15 pm