Computational Linguistics & Phonetics Computational Linguistics & Phonetics Fachrichtung 4.7 Universität des Saarlandes

Distinguished Speakers in Language Science

The joint Colloquium of the Department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics and SFB/CRC 1102.

Summer Semester 2016

Thursdays, 16:15, Building C7.4, Conference room

Talk on 07.04 will take place in Conference Room 407. building E 1.1!!!

Date Speaker Title of talk Notes
7 April Roman Yangarber Modeling Linguistic Relationships and Language Evolution unusual place: Conference Room 407. building E 1.1!
14 April Kimmo Koskenniemi Relating cognate words directly
15 April Hinrich Schütze Embeddings! For which objects? For which objectives? unusual time: 14:00-16:00; unusual date - Friday!
21 April Terttu Nevalainen Historical sociolinguistics from philology to computer science
28 April Fotis Jannidis Challenges of a corpus-based history of the German novel
10 May Martha Palmer Designing abstract meaning representations unusual date - Tuesday!
12 May Padraic Monaghan Degeneracy and language acquisition
19 May Mark Steedman A distributional theory of content for NLP
2 June Moreno Coco When Expectancies Collide: the Interaction between Stimulus Plausibility and Congruency during a Cross-Modal Verification Task
16 June Anthony Kroch Detecting Abstract Linguistic Properties Through the Study of Corpus Data
7 July Michael Franke Probabilistic pragmatics, rational analysis and data-driven inference
21 July Albert Kim The neurocognitive mechanisms of on-line language comprehension: from perception to integration and back again
18 August Miriam R. L. Petruck FrameNet: Current Status, Recent Activity, and Future Plans

Winter Semester 2016/2017

Thursdays, 16:15, Building C7.4, Conference room

Date Speaker Title of talk Notes
17 November John Nerbonne Sociolinguistics and Computational Linguistics
2 March John Goldsmith tba
22 June Susanne Gahl tba