Invited Talk
We shall know who you are by the words you use:
cognitive computational studies of language
by Aline Villavicencio
Psycholinguistic studies on language acquisition, organization and dissolution have proposed several hypotheses to explain human processing of language, where factors such as frequency, polysemy and conventionality seem to influence language acquisition and use. Recent studies have also indicated the impact of gender and age, with differences in language use between boys and girls. In this talk I will present recent research on some of these factors and discuss how computational investigations of psycholinguistic hypothesis of language acquisition and dissolution can be used to help achieve a better understanding of language processes in normal and pathological cases.
Short bio:
Aline Villavicencio is a CNPq Fellow, a lecturer at the Institute of Informatics of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), and a visiting researcher at the Computer Science Department, University of Bath (UK). She received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge and worked as a Senior researcher at the University of Essex and at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Her research includes work on multiword expressions, computational language acquisition and grammar engineering for languages such as English and Portuguese. Aline has appeared on the programme committee of several conferences and has organized a number of events including the ACL 2003, 2004 and COLING 2010 workshops on MWEs and ACL 2007 and EACL 2009 Cognitive Workshops.