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4-5 June 2004, OzsL School Event, Utrecht

Date: 4-5 June 2004
Location: Utrecht

OZSL organizes, in collaboration with the Heyting Foundation a SCHOOL EVENT on June 4 and 5. Everybody is welcome!

For more information and a program, see http://godot.phil.uu.nl/~pape/ozsl/newsitem.php?news_id=43

4 June 2004, Computing with LLI Seminar, Maarten Marx

Date & Time: Friday 4 June 2004, 13:30
Speaker: Maarten Marx
(Amsterdam)
Title: A generalization of Kamp's theorem to trees
Location: Room F.009, Gebouw F, Kruislaan 409, Amsterdam

For abstracts and more information, see http://lit.science.uva.nl/News/seminar04-1.html#Jun04.

4 June 2004, DIP Colloquium, Beata Gyuris

Date & Time: Friday 4 June 2004, 16:00-17:30
Speaker: Beata Gyuris (ZAS, Berlin)
Title: A new look at the semantics/pragmatics of contrastive topics in Hungarian
Location: Room 001 (MFR), Philosophy Department, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 15, Amsterdam

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

4-5 June 2004, OzsL School Event, Utrecht

Date: 4-5 June 2004
Location: Utrecht

OZSL organizes, in collaboration with the Heyting Foundation a SCHOOL EVENT on June 4 and 5. Everybody is welcome!

For more information and a program, see http://godot.phil.uu.nl/~pape/ozsl/newsitem.php?news_id=43

8 June 2004, Zuidelijk Interuniversitair Colloquium (ZIC), Martijn Oostdijk

Date & Time: Tuesday 8 June 2004, 14:15-16:00
Speaker: Martijn Oostdijk
(Nijmegen)
Location: TU Eindhoven, MA 1.41

For abstracts and more information, see http://www.win.tue.nl/zic/ or contact Georgi Jojgov ().

9 June 2004, DIP Colloquium, Gennaro Chierchia

Date & Time: Wednesday 9 June 2004, 16:00-17:30
Speaker: Gennaro Chierchia (Milan)
Title: Domain Widening and its implicatures: A new look at negative
polarity vs. free choice and the grammar/pragmatics interface
Location: Room 001 (MFR), Philosophy Department, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 15, Amsterdam

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

9 June 2004, DIP Colloquium, Gennaro Chierchia

Date & Time: Wednesday 9 June 2004, 17:00-18:00
Speaker: Gennaro Chierchia (Milan)
Title: Domain Widening and its implicatures. A new look at negative
polarity vs. free choice and the grammar/pragmatics interface
Location: Room 001 (MFR), Philosophy Department, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 15, Amsterdam

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

10-11 June 2004, Linguistic Perspectives on Numerical Expressions, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics-OTS

Date: 10-11 June 2004
Location: Utrecht Institute of Linguistics-OTS

Knowledge of language and knowledge of the number system are two cognitive capacities that have been characterized as being genuinely human. A core property which is shared by these two cognitive domains is that of discrete infinity: just like the series of numbers goes on indefinitely (you can always add one more), you can go on building linguistic structures by adding new linguistic material to the already built structure, as in John and Peter and Sue and Betty and ... This property of discrete infinity accounts for the fact that there is no limit in principle to how many words a sentence may contain. In Language and Problems of Knowledge, Noam Chomsky speculates on the idea that the number faculty developed as a by-product of the language faculty. He states that we might think of the human number faculty as essentially an abstraction from human language, preserving the mechanisms of discrete infinity and eliminating the other special features of language. This thought-provoking idea suggests a certain relationship between knowledge of language and numerical knowledge. The general aim of the workshop is to further our understanding of this relationship between the two cognitive systems.

For more information, a program and an online registration form, see http://www.let.uu.nl/users/Joost.Zwarts/personal/numericals.htm

10 June 2004, FNWI sitevisit to ILLC

Date & Time: 10 June 2004, 13:00-17:30
Location: Room P.018, Euclides, Plantage Muidergracht 24, Amsterdam

On Thursday, June 10th, the Dean of the Faculty of Science and his staff will visit our Institute. The program consists of two parts:

CLOSED SESSION:
13.00 -13.30 uur: Reception by institute, lunch
13.30 -14.45 uur: Board meeting Faculty-Institute

PLENARY SESSION:
15.00-15.45: Lecture by Rens Bod and Aline Honingh: "Computational models of Language, Images, and Music"
15.45-16.15 uur: Meeting in which everybody can ask questions to the management of the Faculty of Science and of the ILLC
16.15 --17.30: Drinks!!!

For more information, please contact

10-11 June 2004, Linguistic Perspectives on Numerical Expressions, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics-OTS

Date: 10-11 June 2004
Location: Utrecht Institute of Linguistics-OTS

Knowledge of language and knowledge of the number system are two cognitive capacities that have been characterized as being genuinely human. A core property which is shared by these two cognitive domains is that of discrete infinity: just like the series of numbers goes on indefinitely (you can always add one more), you can go on building linguistic structures by adding new linguistic material to the already built structure, as in John and Peter and Sue and Betty and ... This property of discrete infinity accounts for the fact that there is no limit in principle to how many words a sentence may contain. In Language and Problems of Knowledge, Noam Chomsky speculates on the idea that the number faculty developed as a by-product of the language faculty. He states that we might think of the human number faculty as essentially an abstraction from human language, preserving the mechanisms of discrete infinity and eliminating the other special features of language. This thought-provoking idea suggests a certain relationship between knowledge of language and numerical knowledge. The general aim of the workshop is to further our understanding of this relationship between the two cognitive systems.

For more information, a program and an online registration form, see http://www.let.uu.nl/users/Joost.Zwarts/personal/numericals.htm

11 June 2004, Computing with LLI Seminar, Michael Masuch

Date & Time: Friday 11 June 2004, 16:00
Speaker: Michael Masuch
Title: Consistency Is a Largely Overrated Concept---Ken Livingston,
Mayor of London
Location: Room F.009, Gebouw F, Kruislaan 403, Amsterdam

Michael Masuch will retire at the end of this term, and the LIT group wants to take the opportunity to celebrate. There will be drinks and nibbles after Michael's presentation.

For abstracts and more information, see http://lit.science.uva.nl/News/seminar04-1.html#Jun11.

17 June 2004, Logic Tea, Detlef Prescher

Date & Time: Thursday 17 June 2004, 17:15-18:30
Speaker: Detlef Prescher
Title: Probabilistic Grammars
Location: Room P.017, Euclides Building, Plantage Muidergracht 24, Amsterdam

The Logic Tea homepage can be found at https://www.illc.uva.nl/logic_tea/. For more information, please contact Olivier Roy () or Hartmut Fitz ().

22 June 2004, Computing with LLI Seminar, Paul Ogilvie

Date & Time: Tuesday 22 June 2004, 12:00
Speaker: Paul Ogilvie
(Language Technologies Institute, CMU)
Title: Understanding Combination of Evidence in the Language Modeling
Framework
Location: Room F.009, Gebouw F, Kruislaan 403, Amsterdam

For abstracts and more information, see http://lit.science.uva.nl/News/seminar04-1.html#Jun22.

22 June 2004, Zuidelijk Interuniversitair Colloquium (ZIC), Clemens Grabmayer

Date & Time: Tuesday 22 June 2004, 14:15-16:00
Speaker: Clemens Grabmayer (VU)
Title: Derivability and admissibility of inference rules in abstract Hilbert systems
Location: TU Eindhoven, HG 6.96

For abstracts and more information, see http://www.win.tue.nl/zic/ or contact Georgi Jojgov ().

25 June 2004, The Plastic Brain, Gertrudiskapel, Utrecht, across Utrecht CS

Date & Time: 25 June 2004, 10:00-17:00
Location: Gertrudiskapel, Utrecht, across Utrecht CS

"THE BRAIN IS MORE CHANGEABLE THAN WE EVER THOUGHT", to quote the special issue of Scientific American, "Better Brains", September 2003. The Dutch national Cognition programme is organizing a scientific symposium around this theme at Friday June 25 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. At the symposium, our distinguished speakers Gregory Ball, Barbara Koenig (to be confirmed), Tom Mitchell and Gregory Quirk will discuss these issues from the points of view of ethology, ethics, artificial intelligence and physiology respectively. Get ready for a stimulating event about seasonal brain changes, the reduction of fear, computers reading our mind and free will.

Participation is free, but as there is only a limited numbers of seats available registration is obligatory. Registration is possible by sending an e-mail before Monday June 14 to stating your name and affiliation. You will be informated as soon as possible about your participation.

For more information, see http://www.nwo.nl/cognitie/symposium/

25 June 2004, DIP Colloquium, David Ahn

Date & Time: Friday 25 June 2004, 16:00-17:30
Speaker: David Ahn (ILPS)
Title: Bi-polar domain restriction in adverbial quantification
Location: Room 001 (MFR), Philosophy Department, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 15, Amsterdam

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

25 June 2004, DIP Colloquium, Isidora Stojanovic

Date & Time: Friday 25 June 2004, 16:00-17:30
Speaker: Isidora Stojanovic (Stanford)
Location: Room 001 (MFR), Philosophy Department, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 15, Amsterdam

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

29 June 2004, Zuidelijk Interuniversitair Colloquium (ZIC), Suzana Andova

Date & Time: Tuesday 29 June 2004, 14:15-16:00
Speaker: Suzana Andova
(Twente)
Title: Equivalences for silent transitions in Probabilistic Systems
Location: TU Eindhoven, HG 6.96

For abstracts and more information, see http://www.win.tue.nl/zic/ or contact Georgi Jojgov ().