UCI Summer School on Computational Cognitive Modeling for Language

The UCI Department of Language Science will be hosting a Summer School on Computational Cognitive Modeling for Language, August 1-5. This was originally going to be in 2020 but now it’s this year.

Apply by May 23. 

Overview
We will immerse students for five days in four daily tutorials:

1. Computational modeling of language learning and adaptation with a focus on phonetics and phonology,

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).

These will be taught by Xin Xie, Connor Mayer, Greg Scontras, Sameer Singh and Richard Futrell. We will teach the theory behind these approaches as well as the practicalities of applying them using datasets and experiments. Students will do hands-on programming exercises in class.

The summer school is for postdocs, graduate students, advanced undergraduate students, and other researchers in cognitive science, linguistics, and related fields, especially people who do not have access to resources for learning these skills where they are now.

We will also have a series of evening talks and panel discussions with invited speakers, talking about controversial questions and potential directions for the field of computational cognitive science.

Tuition
There is no tuition. 

Travel & Accommodation
The Department will provide funding up to $500 for students’ travel to and from Irvine, and will provide them with lodging in UC Irvine’s campus housing for the duration of the summer school.

APPLICATION IS OPEN!

Apply here  by May 23, 2022.