Cognitively and Biologically Inspired Computational Models of Language and Eye-tracking tutorial

Regent Court building courtyard

Event details

04/10/2023
8:55-17:40

Description

Program

08:55 - 09:00 - Welcome and Opening

09:00 - 09:30 - Talk - Aline Villavicencio (University of Sheffield, UK)

Computational modelling of idiomaticity in language 

09:30 - 10:00 - Talk - Tom Pickard (University of Sheffield, UK)

Eye-tracking reading of potentially idiomatic expressions

10:00 - 10:15 -Coffee Break

10:15 - 10:45 - Talk - César Rennó-Costa (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil)

Linguistic Explainability in Large-Language Models

10:45 - 11:45 - Invited Talk - Robert Berwick (MIT, USA)

11:45 - 12:15 - Talk - Marco A. P. Idiart (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

Towards a more biologically realistic approach to language processing 

12:15 - 13:30 - Lunch Break

13:30 - 15:30 - Tutorial Part 1 - Hands-on tutorial on psycholinguistics experimentation with an eye-tracker  (University of Nottingham, UK)

15:30 - 16:00 - Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30 - Tutorial Part 2 - Hands-on tutorial on psycholinguistics experimentation with an eye-tracker  (University of Nottingham, UK)

17:30 - 17:40 - Closing

The event is open to all and registration is free via this link for organisational and catering purposes. 


Location

53.381064873473, -1.4802684326643

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