The Legacy of Zellig Harris: Language and Information into the 21st Century

Описание: The Legacy of Zellig Harris: Language and Information into the 21st Century
A Symposium at The University of Pennsylvania Celebrating Recent Work and a New Publication
Co-sponsored by IRCS, CIS, the Department of Linguistics & John Benjamins Publishing

17 January 2003

https://zelligharris.org/Symposium.htm

Timestamps:

0:00 Mark Liberman, Robert Barchi, Bruce Nevin, Paul Peranteau -- Welcome and Introductory Remarks
11:06 Richard Oehrle -- Harris’s categorial grammar
44:03 Aravind Joshi -- How much complexity is needed for language description?
1:10:55 Naomi Sager, Ngô Thanh Nhàn -- From text to information by computer
1:39:35 Stephen Johnson -- Modeling information content by minimum grammatical description
2:08:29 Fernando Pereira -- Formal grammar, information theory, and learning theory
2:39:19 Elissa Newport -- Statistical language learning: Blending new and old approaches to language acquisition
3:42:56 Anthony Kroch -- Distributional evidence, imperfect learning, and language change
4:09:45 Lila Gleitman -- Language learning without maturation
4:40:10 John Trueswell -- Humans do it too: Use of lexical statistics in a probabilistic parsing system
5:05:54 Pieter Seuren -- Harris and Generative Semantics vindicated: The case of German V-clusters
5:30:18 Francis Lin -- Linguistic philosophy vs. linguistic science
6:00:49 Paul Mattick -- The syntax of science and the science of syntax
6:16:53 Thomas Ryckman -- Reflections on the mathematization of natural language