[CogSci] Rational Approaches in Language Science (RAILS) – 2nd Call for Papers

[Noortje Venhuizen]

Second Call for Papers

Conference on 
Rational Approaches in Language Science (RAILS)

24-26 October, 2019
Saarbruecken, Germany


The language sciences increasingly have in common their adoption of rational probabilistic approaches, such as Bayesian, Information Theoretic, and Game Theoretic frameworks. The goal of this conference is to bring together speech and language researchers whose scientific contributions reflect  the full diversity of disciplines and methodologies — from speech to discourse, on-line processing to corpus-based investigation, through to language change and evolution — that have benefited from, and share, such rational explanations. 

Keynote speakers:

Gerhard Jaeger, University of Tuebingen
  Bayesian typology

Gina Kuperberg, Tufts University and Massachusetts General Hospital
  What a probabilistic computational approach can tell us about us about the neurobiology of language comprehension

Hannah Rohde, University of Edinburgh
  Why are you telling me this:  Comprehension as a process of reverse engineering

Rory Turnbull, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
  Phonetic reduction, natural selection, and bounded rationality


We seek submissions from across the language sciences — including speech science, theoretical linguistics, empirical linguistics, psycholinguistics and neuroscience, computational linguistics, as well as language development, change and evolution — which apply rational probabilistic explanations to linguistic phenomena, or bring novel experimental findings to bear on such accounts.

Submissions in the form of a 400 word abstract (excluding references), in text format, are to be submitted electronically at: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/rails2019 <http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/rails2019>

Submissions open: 1 May
Submissions due: 1 June
Notification of acceptance: 1 July
Conference: October 24-26

Submission will be considered for either oral or poster presentation. Details on the submission format and procedure are also available at the conference web-page: http://rails.sfb1102.uni-saarland.de <http://rails.sfb1102.uni-saarland.de/>

Scientific and financial support for this conference comes from the  Collaborative Research Center SFB1102 “Information Density and Linguistic Encoding”: sfb1102.uni-saarland.de <http://sfb1102.uni-saarland.de/>


Conference organizers:
Matthew Crocker (chair)
Bistra Andreeva
Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb 
Vera Demberg
Robin Lemke
Noortje Venhuizen
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