Lexical Representation and Sentence Comprehension: A Multidisciplinary Conference, New Brunswick, NJ, March 19-21 1998

1998年3月19日至21日，纽约市立大学第11届人类句子处理年会将举行一次特别会议，题为“词汇表征和句子理解：多学科视角”。词汇对加工的影响目前是句子理解心理语言学研究的一个主要焦点；然而，许多工作仍然与其他分支学科关于词汇主题的大量科学活动相隔离。现在正是将来自这些不同视角的研究人员聚集在一起，交流有助于为彼此的工作提供信息的想法和信息的好时机。在特别会议上，组织者邀请了来自语言学、计算机科学和哲学的四位演讲者，他们对最近在各自领域的词汇研究做出了重大贡献，涉及词汇信息的结构和词汇特征的概率模型的计算。此外，来自主流句子处理界的三名讨论者将在会议上发挥关键作用，他们将详细阐述受邀演讲中与人类句子处理理论特别相关的方面。拟议的特别会议，连同一次小组讨论和一系列从提交的关于这一专题的摘要中挑选出来的讲座和海报，将在相关研究领域之间提供独特和及时的多学科交流。纽约市立大学的会议特别适合主办特别会议，因为它具有多学科性质，吸引了心理学家、语言学家和计算机科学家，他们研究人类句子处理机制的所有方面。为了继续在不同领域之间就词汇表征问题进行对话，组织者计划出版一本编辑过的卷，其中载有特别会议的论文。

A special conference session entitled "Lexical Representation and Sentence Comprehension: A Multidisciplinary Perspective," will be held in conjunction with the 11th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, March 19-21, 1998. Lexical influences on processing are currently a major focus of attention in psycholinguistic studies of sentence comprehension; however, much of the work remains isolated from the vast amount of scientific activity on the topic of the lexicon in other subdisciplines. This is an opportune time to bring together researchers from these different perspectives to exchange ideas and information that can help to inform each others' work. For the special session, the organizers have invited four speakers from linguistics, computer science, and philosophy who have made significant contributions to recent research on the lexicon in their fields, concerning the structure of lexical information and the computation of probabilistic models over lexical features. In addition, three discussants from the mainstream sentence processing community will play a key role in the session, by elaborating on those aspects of the invited talks that are of particular relevance to theories of human sentence processing. The proposed special session, along with a panel discussion and a set of talks and posters selected from submitted abstracts on the topic, will provide a unique and timely multidisciplinary exchange between the relevant areas of research. The CUNY conference is particularly well-suited to host the special session because of its multidisciplinary nature, attracting psychologists, linguists, and computer scientists who investigate all aspects of the human sentence processing mechanism. In order to continue the dialogue on lexical representation among the various fields, the organizers plan to publish an edited volume containing the papers from the special session.