Language, Cognition, and Computational Models

Thierry Poibeau is Director of Research at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris and head of the LaTTiCE laboratory in Paris, France. His is also an affiliated lecturer at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (DTAL) of the University of Cambridge. He works on natural language processing (NLP), in particular focusing on information extraction, question answering, semantic zoning, knowledge acquisition from text, and named entity tagging. Aline Villavicencio is a Reader at the Institute of Informatics, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and is a fellow of CNPq (Brazil). Her research interests in natural language processing are in computational models of acquisition of linguistic information from data, distributional semantic models, multiword expression, and applications like text simplification and question answering.

'The deepest questions about language will be solved through cooperation across disciplinary boundaries. Insights from neuroscience, psychology, linguistics, and social science only offer partial explanations. Computer modeling provides an ideal methodology to integrate these diverse insights and put them to the test on real data. This broad collection of papers from leading research groups, contextualised by Thierry Poibeau and Aline Villavicencio, will inspire everyone interested in the cognitive aspects of language processing.' Walter Daelemans, Universiteit Antwerpen

• Part I. About This Book: 1. Introduction T. Poibeau and A. Villavicencio; Part II. Models of Neural and Cognitive Processing: 2. Light-and-deep parsing P. Blache; 3. Decoding language from brain B. Murphy, A. Fyshe and L. Wehbe; 4. Graph theory applied to speech N. B. Mota, M. Copelli and S. Ribeiro; Part III. Data-Driven Models: 5. Putting linguistics back into computational linguistics M. Kay; 6. A distributional model of verb-specific semantic roles inferences G. E. Lebani and A. Lenci; 7. Native language identification on EFCAMDAT X. Jiang, Y. Huang, Y. Guo, J. Geertzen, T. Alexopoulou, L. Sun, A. Korhonen; 8. Evaluating language acquisition models L. Pearl and L. Phillips; Part IV. Social and Language Evolution: 9. Social evolution of public languages A. Reboul; 10. Genetic biases in language R. Janssen and D. Dediu; 11. Transparency versus processing efficiency R. van Trijp.