Efficient compression and linguistic meaning in humans and machines Dr. Noga Zaslavsky, MIT What computational principles govern the ability to communicate about a complex world, while operating with bounded resources? By integrating tools from information …

Coordinating on shared meaning 
for communication and collaboration Robert Hawkins, Princeton Neuroscience Institute Communication is the engine of human culture. When we're able to communicate successfully, there's nothing we can't accomplish together. But when communication …

Computational Linguistics for Socially-Responsible Technology Jonathan Dunn, University of Canterbury-Christchurch This talk introduces my work in computational cognitive linguistics and computational sociolinguistics: from construction grammar and metaphor to dialect and register variation. Along the way …

Becoming a participant: The significance of research on sign language acquisition and socialization Laura Horton, University of Chicago   We have begun to understand the range of circumstances in which children develop language by documenting …

The Achievement of Exclusion and Inclusion in the Interactions of Deaf Youth in Peru Sara A. Goico Assistant Project Scientist Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture, UCLA   Language is a pervasive part of our everyday …

Variation as a perspective on the interaction between language processing and cognition: Insights from sign language and bilingualism Anne Therese Frederiksen, UC-Irvine Languages are highly similar in how referring expressions are selected and resolved across …

Just Linguistics John Baugh, Washington University in St. Louis Various linguistic methods have been utilized to promote the advancement of justice and equality throughout the world. Just Linguistics presents an overview of several instances where …

Constraints on theories of language processing Andrea Martin, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Human language is an example of a formally-describable system that is both statistical and algebraic. As such, its computational properties are markedly …