We are pleased to announce the
first Satellite Symposium at NetSci2012 on Language and Network
Science. A growing number of research articles have used networks to
investigate
various domains of language including phonology, semantics, and syntax,
as well as social aspects of language, such as the diffusion of
language change (for examples see this
web-site maintained by Ramon Ferrer i Cancho). The researchers
doing this work come from disparate
fields—including Linguistics, Psychology, Engineering, Computer
Science, and Physics—and publish in a diverse array of
professional journals. The aim of the symposium is to bring these
researchers together to better understand how various aspects of
language "work" and how network science can be used to gain insight
into this unique, human, social behavior.
Click
HERE for a list of speakers
and the schedule for the day.
Registration
Attendance to our FULL-day symposium is FREE. However, we ask that you
register so that
we can reserve an appropriately sized venue.
We also encourage
everyone to register for the main NetSci2012 conference (June
20-22, 2012). For more information on NetSci2012 (including
registration fee and deadline) please see:
http://www.netsci2012.net.
There is another conference on June 22, 2012 that may also be of
interest:
If you are currently doing work at the intersection of language and
network science, you may be interested in submitting to a special
Research Topic--
Insights
to the study of Language from Network Science--in the journal,
Frontiers in
Language Sciences.
For questions, please e-mail Michael Vitevitch at
mvitevit@ku.edu.