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Two Days of Truth

Date: Friday-Saturday 14-15 May, 2004
Speaker: Wolfgang Künne (Hamburg), Göran Sundholm (Leiden/NIAS), Jan Wolenski (Cracow/NIAS), Kevin Mulligan (Geneva)
Location: Leiden

On 14/5 Wolfgang Künne will give an overview of his recent magnum opus "Conceptions of Truth", Oxford U. P., 2003. On 15/5 Sundholm and Wolenski will discuss specific issues in the book, and Mulligan will speak on truth- and -fact-making.

For more information, see http://www.filosofie.leidenuniv.nl/

14-16 May 2004, Third Flamish-Dutch Congress for Philosophy of Science, ISVW, Leusden

Date: 14-16 May 2004
Location: ISVW, Leusden

From Friday May 14th to Sunday May 16th the Third Flamish-Dutch Congress for General and Special Philosophy of Science will take place. The congress will be organized by the Dutch Society for Philosophy of Science (NVWF) and hosted by the International School for Philosophy (ISVW) in Leusden.

For more information (in Dutch), see here or http://www.isvw.nl/programma2_isvw_index.htm.

14 May 2004, Leve de Wiskunde! Passie voor het vak (Open dag)

Date & Time: Friday 14 May 2004, 11:00-16:30
Location: Plantage Muidergracht 24, Amsterdam

On friday 14 May the Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation will host an Open Day for teachers of mathematics, students, and other interested parties. 'Leve de Wiskunde' is the opportunity to become acquainted with the renowned research programs in mathematics and logic at the UvA.

For more information and an online application form, see http://www.science.uva.nl/congres/.

14 May 2004, Language and Inference Technology (LIT) Seminar, Walter Daelemans

Date & Time: Friday 14 May 2004, 13:30
Speaker: Walter Daelemans
(Antwerp/Tilburg)
Title: Memory-Based Word Sense Disambiguation
Location: Room F.009, Gebouw F, Kruislaan 409, Amsterdam

For abstracts and more information, see http://lit.science.uva.nl/News/seminar04-1.html#May14.

14 May 2004, Colloquium on Mathematical Logic, Andreas Weiermann

Date & Time: Friday 14 May 2004, 15:00-17:00
Speaker: Andreas Weiermann (Utrecht)
Title: Classifying the phase transition
for Ackermannian Paris Harrington - functions
Location: Room K11, Wiskundegebouw, Budapestlaan 6, Utrecht
(Bus 11 from Utrecht Central Station).

For abstracts and more information, see http://www.math.uu.nl/people/jvoosten/seminar.html

14 May 2004, DIP Colloquium, Hans-Christian Schmitz

Date & Time: Friday 14 May 2004, 16:00-17:30
Speaker: Hans-Christian Schmitz (Bonn)
Title: Optimal accentuation
Location: Room 001 (MFR), Philosophy Department, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 15, Amsterdam

For abstracts and more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/dip/.

Two Days of Truth

Date: Friday-Saturday 14-15 May, 2004
Speaker: Wolfgang Künne (Hamburg), Göran Sundholm (Leiden/NIAS), Jan Wolenski (Cracow/NIAS), Kevin Mulligan (Geneva)
Location: Leiden

On 14/5 Wolfgang Künne will give an overview of his recent magnum opus "Conceptions of Truth", Oxford U. P., 2003. On 15/5 Sundholm and Wolenski will discuss specific issues in the book, and Mulligan will speak on truth- and -fact-making.

For more information, see http://www.filosofie.leidenuniv.nl/

14-16 May 2004, Third Flamish-Dutch Congress for Philosophy of Science, ISVW, Leusden

Date: 14-16 May 2004
Location: ISVW, Leusden

From Friday May 14th to Sunday May 16th the Third Flamish-Dutch Congress for General and Special Philosophy of Science will take place. The congress will be organized by the Dutch Society for Philosophy of Science (NVWF) and hosted by the International School for Philosophy (ISVW) in Leusden.

For more information (in Dutch), see here or http://www.isvw.nl/programma2_isvw_index.htm.

14-16 May 2004, Third Flamish-Dutch Congress for Philosophy of Science, ISVW, Leusden

Date: 14-16 May 2004
Location: ISVW, Leusden

From Friday May 14th to Sunday May 16th the Third Flamish-Dutch Congress for General and Special Philosophy of Science will take place. The congress will be organized by the Dutch Society for Philosophy of Science (NVWF) and hosted by the International School for Philosophy (ISVW) in Leusden.

For more information (in Dutch), see here or http://www.isvw.nl/programma2_isvw_index.htm.

19 May 2004, Computing with LLI Seminar, Karin Müller

Date & Time: Wednesday 19 May 2004, 13:30
Speaker: Karin Müller
(Amsterdam)
Title: Semi-Automatic Construction of a Question Treebank
Location: Room F.009, Gebouw F, Kruislaan 409, Amsterdam

For abstracts and more information, see http://lit.science.uva.nl/News/seminar04-1.html#May07.

24 May 2004, International Workshop on Language Resources: Integration and Development in E-Learning and in Teaching Computational Linguistics., Centro Cultural de Belem, LISBON, Portugal

Date: Monday 24 May 2004
Location: Centro Cultural de Belem, LISBON, Portugal
Costs: 100 EURO for LREC Conference participants and 170 EURO for other participants
Deadline: 15 February 2004

Language resources (LRs) are of crucial importance not only for research and development in language and speech technology but also for teaching purposes. E-learning added a new dimension to the usability of language resources and made them interesting outside the area of computational linguistics.

This one-day workshop will focus on the integration of LRs in the educational process and the relation between LRs and e-learning. Special attention will be dedicated to the use of LRs in the curriculum of computational linguistics.

Extended Deadline for abstract submissions is February 15th, 2004. For more information, see http://nats-wiki.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~cri/lrecwp04/index.html. This workshop is organized in association with the LREC 2004, the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evalution.

26 May 2004, Automath Symposium, Auditorium 16, TU Eindhoven

Date & Time: Wednesday 26 May 2004, 14:30 - 17:45
Speaker: Henk Barendregt, Herman Geuvers, Freek Wiedijk, N.G. de Bruijn, Georgi Jojgov
Location: Auditorium 16, TU Eindhoven

An important question is whether computer assisted proofs are acceptable to the scientific community. One can distinguish romantic (human understandable) vs cool (machine verified) proofs. The heart of the matter is whether a proof is reliable. Reliability can be obtained by providing fully formalised proofs that can be algorithmically verified. The methodology of de Bruijn's Automath Project delivers proofs that are reliable and human-readable.

What is the feasibility of constructing fully formalised proofs for `everyday use' in mathematics? Interactive support from the computer in developing proofs brings us a step forward, but how far can we get? On the occasion of the digitizing of the Automath Archive a short symposium is organised on these matters, as a cooperation of the ZIC-colloquium and the Brouwer Seminar of the Foundations group in Nijmegen.

All information on the program of this symposium can be found at the website: http://www.win.tue.nl/automath/. For more information, please contact

28 May 2004, Computing with LLI Seminar, Jan Kors

Date & Time: Friday 28 May 2004, 13:30
Speaker: Jan Kors
(Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Title: Thesaurus-based detection and disambiguation of gene symbols in large text corpora
Location: Room F.009, Gebouw F, Kruislaan 409, Amsterdam

For abstracts and more information, see http://lit.science.uva.nl/News/seminar04-1.html#May28.