CUNY '98 Call for Abstracts

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS DEADLINE: November 7, 1997 11th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing Hosted by Rutgers University March 19-21, 1998 Featuring a Special Session on The Lexical Basis of Syntactic Processing: Formal and Computational Issues INVITED SPEAKERS: Joan Bresnan, Stanford University Beth Levin, Northwestern University Mitch Marcus, University of Pennsylvania Jerry Fodor, Rutgers University DISCUSSANTS: Mark Johnson, Brown University Amy Weinberg, University of Maryland Maryellen MacDonald, University of Southern California ABSTRACT DEADLINE: November 7, 1997 The 11th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing is soliciting abstracts for papers and posters presenting theoretical, experimental, and/or computational research on human sentence processing. Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously and will be considered for both the general conference sessions and for a special session on The Lexical Basis of Syntactic Processing: Formal and Computational Issues. SPECIAL SESSION: Lexical influences on processing are currently a major focus of attention in research on sentence comprehension, yet much of the work remains isolated from investigations of the lexicon in other disciplines. The special session, The Lexical Basis of Syntactic Processing: Formal and Computational Issues, will examine current theories of lexical representation from a multidisciplinary perspective, relating the issues raised to current work on sentence comprehension. The focus of the session will be presentations by invited speakers from linguistics, computer science, and philosophy, with critical commentary and discussion from researchers within the sentence processing community. The special session will also include submitted papers and posters on the topic of the role of the lexicon in sentence processing. Abstracts that are considered for the special session will be evaluated both for the quality of the research and for the fit between the submitted abstract and the invited papers. SUBMISSION DEADLINES: For consideration in the spoken paper sessions: November 7, 1997. For consideration as a poster only: January 12, 1998 WHAT TO SUBMIT: Abstracts must be no more than 400 words in length, excluding references. At the top of the abstract, please include your name, email address, and indicate whether your abstract is to be considered for PAPER ONLY, POSTER ONLY, or PAPER OR POSTER. The last category means that you would be willing to present a poster if your abstract is not included in the spoken sessions but is accepted for one of the poster sessions. Please leave several blank lines between this information and your title and abstract, so that we may remove this information for anonymous abstract review. Abstracts submitted but not accepted for the paper sessions will automatically be included in the submissions for poster sessions, unless the abstract is marked PAPER ONLY. WHERE TO SUBMIT: We will accept email submissions only. Email your submissions to cuny(a)ruccs.rutgers.edu Please use "Abstract" as your subject header. If you are submitting more than one abstract, each must be separately emailed. You will receive an email acknowledgment for each abstract you submit. If you are unable to use email to submit your abstract, you must contact the organizers for instructions on submitting a PC-readable disk with the required information and abstract. CONFERENCE DATES AND LOCATION: The conference will be held on March 19-21, 1998, at the Hyatt Regency, New Brunswick, New Jersey, adjacent to the Rutgers University campus. The conference site is easily accessible by shuttle from the Newark airport, and by train from New York or Philadelphia. Detailed hotel reservation and travel information is available on the conference web site; please check out the Accommodations and Transportation links. For more information, see: http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/cuny98 E-mail questions to: cuny(a)ruccs.rutgers.edu Suzanne Stevenson CUNY98 Conference Organizer Dept of Computer Science, and Center for Cognitive Science Rutgers University