The following announcement is interesting for Common Lisp users, because the atelier on Computational Construction Grammar is completely based on Common Lisp environments.

Here is the full announcement:

Date: 14-Jul-2007 - 19-Jul-2007

Organisers: Vittorio Loreto and Luc Steels

An exciting summerschool is being organised this summer in Erice, Sicily. The school focuses on recent research in modeling language evolution using computational, robotic, and mathematical approaches.

The main school (http://pil.phys.uniroma1.it/erice2007/index.html) brings together about 30 lecturers, with linguists including: Ben Bergen, Bill Croft, Bruno Galantucci, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Jean-Marie Hombert, Jim Hurford, Laura Michaelis, Bill Wang.

There is a specialised atelier (http://www.csl.sony.fr/erice2007/) on using Computational Construction Grammar for modeling language evolution with exercises and hands-on experience.

Interested participants should email as soon as possible to tagora2007@csl.sony.fr and check out the websites.

Cheers, Pascal