Afra Alishahi Postdoctoral fellow Computational Psycholinguistics Department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics Saarland University

 
Upcoming Events:

• I will take part in two symposiums at the 12th International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL 2011):
  
  
  • Identifying the agent: How children learn and use semantic roles (organized by Caroline Rowland)
  
  
  • The formation of and restriction of linguistic generalizations (organized by Ben Ambridge)

Recent Activities:

• Giving a talk at the Fourth International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association titled "The acquisition of abstract argument structure constructions from child-directed data". Bremen, Germany, October 9, 2010.


• Co-offering a course at European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) on Computational Modeling of Human Language Acquisition. Copenhagen, Denmark, August 16-20, 2010 (with Afsaneh Fazly).


• Giving a talk at the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation, University of Amsterdam titled "A Bayesian account of the acquisition of abstract argument structure constructions". Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 19, 2010.


• Giving a talk at the RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia series, Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge, titled Learning semantic roles from child-directed data: insights from a probabilistic model of early language learning. Cambridge, UK, April 27, 2010.


• Offering an ACL Tutorial on Computational Modeling of Human Language Acquisition. Singapore, August 2009.


• Organizing the Eighth IRTG Summer School in Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics. Kloster Irsee, Germany, June 2009 (with Matthew Crocker).


• Co-organizing an EACL Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Acquisition. Athens, Greece, March 2009 (with Thierry Poibeau and Aline Villavicencio).