Rutgers MathLing Group

This is an informal reading group for mathematical and computational linguistics discussions. We are affiliated with the Rutgers Department of Linguistics and the Rutgers Computational Linguistics Lab.

Faculty advisor:	Adam Jardine
Student organizers:	Chenli Wang Vincent Czarnecki Merlin Balkhash
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Spring 2025 Schedule

Wednesday, 11am, Rm 403 at 1 Spring Street

• Jan 22 Organizational Meeting (joint w/ PhonX)
• Feb 5 Review on Learning
  Reading: Heinz (2016). Computational theories of learning and developmental psycholinguistics
• Feb 12 Learning Functions
  Meeting Notes: Introduction to Functions
• Feb 26 Learning Functions
  Reading: Chap.2&3, Chandlee (2014). Strictly local phonological processes
• Mar 5 Field trip to Tommi Buder-Grondahl's talk on LLMs
  
• Mar 12 Learning Functions
  Reading: Jardine et al. (2014). Very efficient learning of structured classes of subsequential functions from positive data
  Bhaskar et al. (2020). Boolean monadic recursive schemes as a logical characterization of the subsequential functions
• Mar 19 spring break
  
• Mar 26 Underlying Form Learning
  
• Apr 9 Underlying Form Learning
  Reading: Chandlee & Jardine. Using Locality and Natural Classes to Infer Underlying Representations and a Phonological Grammar
  
• Apr 16 TBD
  
• Apr 23 TBD
  

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Past meetings

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