University of California, Irvine
Department of Language Science
August 1-5, 2022
This summer school is for postdocs, graduate students, advanced undergraduate students, and other researchers in cognitive science, linguistics, and related fields. We will immerse students for five days in four daily tutorials:
1) Computational modeling of phonetic learning and adaptation using probabilistic inference approaches,
2) Bayesian models of pragmatic language use,
3) Computational models of online language processing using information theory, and
4) Modern neural-network-based machine learning as applied to natural language in the field of natural language processing (NLP).
We will teach the theory behind these approaches as well as the practicalities of applying and testing them using datasets and experiments. Students will complete conceptual and/or programming exercises in class.