Tutorial Program - Pre-registration and $25 fee required

Date: Wednesday, March 22, 2000
Location: Room 3045-D JKHB (Jesse Knight Humanities Building)

10:00 Basic introduction to AML (Royal Skousen)

11:00 Setting up AML data files (Deryle Lonsdale)

[Break]

2:00 Running the Perl program (Dil Parkinson)

3:00 Demonstration of TIMBL (Walter Daelemans and Antal van den Bosch)
 

Registration time: 10:00-11:00 am, outside the Little Theater

Opening session (11:00 a.m.)

Dil Parkinson, Chair, Department of Asian & Near Eastern Languages, Brigham Young University

-- Welcome to conference

Royal Skousen, Brigham Young University -- "The issues in analogical modeling of language"

Afternoon session (1:30 to 5:00 p.m.) - Moderator, Royal Skousen

Comparison of instance-based approaches [30-minute presentations]

1:30 Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp [Belgium] and Tilburg University [The Netherlands] -- "Comparing Analogical Modeling of Language to Memory-Based Language Processing"

2:00 Steve Chandler, University of Idaho -- "Skousen's Analogical Approach as an Exemplar-Based Model of Categorization"

2:30 Michael Mudrow, Indiana University -- "Version Spaces, Neural Networks, and Analogical Modeling of Language or A Model by Any Other Name"

3:00 [15 minute break]

3:15 David Eddington, Mississippi State University -- "A Comparison of Two Analogical Models: Tilburg Memory Based Learner versus Analogical Modeling of Language"

3:45 Andrea Krott and Harald Baayen, University of Nijmegen and Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics [The Netherlands] --"Modeling linking morphemes in Dutch noun-noun compounds with a lazy-learning algorithm"

4:15 Antal van den Bosch, Tilburg University [The Netherlands]-- "Expanding k-NN analogy through value combinatorics within instance families"

Dinner / party / discussions

NOTE time change!!!

Morning session (8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.) - Moderator, Dana Bourgerie

Applications to linguistics [30-minute presentations]

8:00 James Myers, National Chung Cheng University [Taiwan] -- "Exemplar-Driven Analogy in Optimality Theory"

8:30 Bruce Brown, Brigham Young University - "Analogical Modeling and the Psychology of Skills"

9:00 William Eggington, Brigham Young University -- "Analogical Modeling and Contemporary Second Language Acquisition Theory and Research: Comparisons and Contrasts"

9:30 [15 minute break]

9:45 Deryle Lonsdale, Brigham Young University -- "Analogical cloning and other NLP applications of AML"

Language applications [20-minute presentations]

10:15 Michael Mudrow, Indiana University -- "Accounting for Variation in Danish Compounds"

10:35 Royal Skousen, Brigham Young University -- "Predicting the Finnish past-tense analogically"
 

Afternoon session (12:30 to 5:00 p.m.) - Moderator, Deryle Lonsdale

Issues in classification and selection [30-minute presentations]

12:30 Rob Freeman [New Zealand] -- "Beyond Classification: Syntax and Semantics as the Production of Ad Hoc Classes"

1:00 Christer Johansson, ElectroTechnical Laboratories [Japan] -- "Analogous Categories"

1:30 Jorn Veenstra, Tilburg University [The Netherlands] -- "Proportional versus Most-Likely Extrapolation from the Analogical Set"
 

Language applications [20-minute presentations]

2:00 Douglas Wulf, University of Washington -- "Applying AML to the German Plural"

2:20 Anton Rytting, Brigham Young University -- "An Empirical Test of Analogical Modeling: The k/0 Alternation in Turkish"

2:40 [15 minute break]

2:55 Dana Bourgerie, Brigham Young University -- "Applying AML to Chinese Classifiers"
 

Larger issues [30-minute presentations]

3:15 David Eddington, Mississippi State University -- "Analogy and the dual-route model of morphology"

3:45 Royal Skousen, Brigham Young University -- "The exponential explosion and quantum computing"

4:15 Bruce Derwing, University of Alberta [Canada] -- Closing summary