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October 2020
Postponed: The 12th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon
The Mental Lexicon Conference returns to Niagara-on-the-Lake in October, 2020! The 12th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon will be held in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada, from the evening of October 6 to the evening of October 9, 2020 at the lovely Queen’s Landing hotel. The conference brings together psycholinguistic, neurolinguistic, and computational research on the representation and processing of words in the mind/brain. Attendees are also invited to our pre- and post-conference events! On October 6, before the conference starts, we will be…
Find out more »Words in the World International Conference 2020
This conference will offer a venue for the communication of ideas, intellectual exchange, and networking for trainees and others across the network. This conference will take place online October 16-18, 2020 and will include scholarly presentations as well as discussion panels. The conference will strive to create presentation opportunities for trainees (e.g., undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, recent graduates and others). We encourage students and postdoctoral fellows from all over the world to present their in-progress or completed work at this…
Find out more »January 2021
CCPTalks: Individual differences in the production and perception of prosodic boundaries in American English
Title: Individual differences in the production and perception of prosodic boundaries in American English Date: Friday, January 22, 2021 Time: 9:00am MST (GMT-7) Location: Zoom (contact ccpling@ualberta.ca for link) Abstract: I present the findings of my dissertation which investigated the hypothesis that individuals vary in their production and perception of prosodic boundaries, and that the properties they use to signal prosodic contrasts are closely related to the properties used to perceive those contrasts. A group of native speakers of American English participated…
Find out more »Cognitive Science of Language lecture series: Dr. Marco Marelli
Who: Marco Marelli (University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy) www.marcomarelli.net What: Compositional effects in the processing of compound words: A computational perspective grounded in linguistic and visual experience When: Monday January 25, 2021; 2:30-4:20 pm EST Where: Zoom Registration: https://mcmaster.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAlduyqrzMqG9HnqMOA1s0NZLhGj-bf2xtU Abstract: Since the seminal LSA proposal (Landauer & Dumais, 1997) distributional semantics has provided efficient data-driven models of the human semantic system, representing word meaning through vectors recording lexical co-occurrences in large text corpora. However, these approaches generate static descriptions of the semantic system, falling…
Find out more »April 2021
Intellectual Property and Commercialization
Welcome to Season 2 of Open Office Hours: Building Bridges! This season will highlight the diverse range of spheres to which language researchers can bring their skills and knowledge. Bradley McLean, Associate Director of Innovation & Commercialization at Brock University, will kick off the new season on April 27 at 12pm (EST, GMT-4). He will provide an overview of intellectual property (patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, industrial designs) and present a model for commercialization that can be applied to your…
Find out more »May 2021
Language Issues in the Canadian Forces
What: Language Issues in the Canadian Forces When: May 25, 2021 at 12pm EDT (GMT -4) Where: Zoom We are now delighted to announce the second talk in our Open Office Hours: Building Bridges series, “Education & Language Applications in the Canadian Forces Health Services Training Centre,” which will be presented by Sandra Plante on Tuesday, May 18 at 12pm (EST, GMT -4). The Canadian Armed Forces recruits its members from the ethnically and linguistically diverse Canadian population. In the…
Find out more »June 2021
Computational Linguistics in the Industrial Setting
What: Computational Linguistics in the Industrial Setting When: June 22, 2021 at 12pm EDT (GMT -4) Where: Zoom We are now happy to announce the third talk in our series, “Computational Linguistics in the Industrial Setting,” which will be delivered by Fermín Moscoso del Prado on Tuesday, June 22 at 12pm (EST, GMT -4). Students coming out of graduate programmes in Cognitive Psychology or Linguistics often have very valuable skills to work in industry in the field of data science.…
Find out more »November 2021
Words in the World Conference 2021
In the spirit of the first WOW Conference held in 2020, this virtual gathering offers a venue for the communication of ideas, intellectual exchange, and networking for trainees. We encourage students and postdoctoral fellows from all over the world to present their in-progress or completed work on the mental lexicon and word and language processing & representation in different contexts — from the lab to the real world — and in diverse populations across the life span. We invite presenters and…
Find out more »March 2022
[Learning Series] Applying your language research skills outside of academia
Co-hosted by ARiEAL and Words in the World. Part of ARiEAL's Learning Series. Contemplating a career outside of academia after graduation? Your training in language research is highly valued and can be applied to areas such as business communication and creative commercialization. The ARiEAL Research Centre and Words in the World (WOW) are honoured to welcome Hans Wijgh, Founder and CEO of Creative Commercialization, to lead an insightful discussion on how your skills can be applied outside of academia. Using their diverse knowledge and…
Find out more »October 2022
The International Conference on the Mental Lexicon 2022
The next International Conference on the Mental Lexicon is scheduled for October 11 - 14, 2022 at the Queen's Landing Hotel in Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON, Canada. The opening reception will be held on the evening of October 11, with the main conference beginning at 9:00am EST on Wednesday, October 12 and ending in the afternoon of Friday, October 14. For more information, visit the official conference website: https://mentallexicon.artsrn.ualberta.ca/
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