Talk
Emmanuel Dupoux (L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
Can AI help the study of language development (and vice versa)?
Steve Nowicki (Biology, Duke University)
Categorical perception and the evolution of communication
The seminar will be followed by lunch with for graduate students with the speaker in 1103 BRB.
Zoe Ovans (NACS/HESP)
Rely on what’s reliable: Effects of cognitive-control engagement on children’s sentence comprehension
B. Aditya Prakash (Computer Science, Virginia Tech)
Networks and Propagation for Fun, Profit and the Social Good
Arthur Wingfield (Psychology, Brandeis University)
Stability in the Face of Change: Cognitive supports and cognitive constraints in speech comprehension by older adults with age-related hearing loss
Darko Odic (Psychology, University of British Columbia)
Breaking the ATOM: Exploring the relationship between number, time, and space perception
Tone-evoked acoustic change complex (ACC) recorded in a sedated animal model
Elizabeth Johnson (Psychology, University of Toronto)
She says tah-may-to but he says tah-mah-to: how children cope with accent variation
Cache Transition Systems for Semantic Parsing
Abstract: We describe a transition system that generalizes standard transition-based dependency parsing techniques to generate a graph rather than a tree. Our system includes a cache with fixed size m, and we characterize the relationship between the parameter m and the class of graphs that can be produced through the graph-theoretic concept of tree decomposition. We train a sequence-to-sequence neural model based on this system to parse text into Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR).