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1 September 2011, Computational Linguistics Seminar, Suzanne Stevenson
Early verb learning in children seems an almost miraculous feat. In learning a verb, children must learn both the basic meaning of the event ("falling" or "eating"), as well as the allowable structures in their language for correctly communicating the participants in that event ("The glass fell", but not "She fell the glass"). Moreover, given the sparsity of evidence, children must be able to abstract away from specific usages they observe in order to use their knowledge of verbs productively. Finally, children must accomplish all this in the face of a high degree of variability among verbs, along with much noise and uncertainty in the input data, and with no explicit teaching. Do children require innate knowledge of language to accomplish this, or are general cognitive learning mechanisms sufficient to the task? We have developed various computational models of verb learning using unsupervised clustering over simple statistical properties of verb usages. Our findings support the claim that general learning mechanisms are able to acquire abstract knowledge of verbs and to generalize that knowledge to novel verbs and situations.
This is joint work with Paola Merlo, Afra Alishahi, and Chris Parisien.
For more information and abstracts, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/LaCo/CLS/.
14 September 2011, joint Computational Linguistics Seminar/DIP Colloquium, Shalom Lappin and Jan van Eijck
For more information and abstracts, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/LaCo/CLS/ or http://sites.google.com/site/illcdip/fall-2011
16 September 2011, DIP Colloquium, Jeanne Peijnenburg
For abstracts and more information, see http://sites.google.com/site/illcdip/.
19 September 2011, LIRa Seminar, Mikkel Birkegaard Andersen and Martin Holm Jensen
For more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/lgc/seminar/?p=1047
20 September 2011, Colloquium on Mathematical Logic, Peter Koepke
For abstracts and more information, see http://www.math.uu.nl/people/jvoosten/seminar.html
20 September 2011, Logic Tea, Umberto Grandi
The Logic Tea homepage can be found at https://www.illc.uva.nl/logic_tea/
For more information, please contact Umberto Grandi (u.grandi at uva.nl), Tong Wang (tongwang01 at gmail.com), or Matthijs Westera (M.Westera at uva.nl).
21-23 September 2011, The 15th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial 2011: Los Angelogue), Los Angeles, California
The Semdial series of workshops aims to bring together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue in fields such as artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, formal semantics/pragmatics, philosophy, psychology, and neural science. In 2011 the workshop will leave Europe for the first time, to be held at the Institute for Creative Technologies of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. The Semdial workshops are always stimulating and fun, and L.A. is a great place to visit.
For further details visit the SemDial 2011 website http://projects.ict.usc.edu/nld/semdial2011 and the SemDial series homepage: https://www.illc.uva.nl/semdial
21-23 September 2011, The 15th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial 2011: Los Angelogue), Los Angeles, California
The Semdial series of workshops aims to bring together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue in fields such as artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, formal semantics/pragmatics, philosophy, psychology, and neural science. In 2011 the workshop will leave Europe for the first time, to be held at the Institute for Creative Technologies of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. The Semdial workshops are always stimulating and fun, and L.A. is a great place to visit.
For further details visit the SemDial 2011 website http://projects.ict.usc.edu/nld/semdial2011 and the SemDial series homepage: https://www.illc.uva.nl/semdial
21-23 September 2011, The 15th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial 2011: Los Angelogue), Los Angeles, California
The Semdial series of workshops aims to bring together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue in fields such as artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, formal semantics/pragmatics, philosophy, psychology, and neural science. In 2011 the workshop will leave Europe for the first time, to be held at the Institute for Creative Technologies of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. The Semdial workshops are always stimulating and fun, and L.A. is a great place to visit.
For further details visit the SemDial 2011 website http://projects.ict.usc.edu/nld/semdial2011 and the SemDial series homepage: https://www.illc.uva.nl/semdial
26-30 September 2011, Ninth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation, Kutaisi, Georgia
The Ninth Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation will be held in in Kutaisi, Georgia, from September 26 to 30, 2011. The Symposium is organized by the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) of the University of Amsterdam in conjunction with the Centre for Language, Logic and Speech at the Tbilisi State University, the Georgian Academy of Sciences and the Akaki Tsereteli State University. The 2011 forum is the ninth instalment of a series of biannual Symposia.
For more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/Tbilisi/Tbilisi2011/
26-30 September 2011, Ninth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation, Kutaisi, Georgia
The Ninth Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation will be held in in Kutaisi, Georgia, from September 26 to 30, 2011. The Symposium is organized by the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) of the University of Amsterdam in conjunction with the Centre for Language, Logic and Speech at the Tbilisi State University, the Georgian Academy of Sciences and the Akaki Tsereteli State University. The 2011 forum is the ninth instalment of a series of biannual Symposia.
For more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/Tbilisi/Tbilisi2011/
27 September 2011, ACG Colloquium, Prof. dr. Ernst-Ruediger Olderog
For more information, see http://acg.project.cwi.nl/htbin/acg/ACG.php4?tid=281
27 September 2011, Logic Tea, Christian Kiesow
The Logic Tea homepage can be found at https://www.illc.uva.nl/logic_tea/
For more information, please contact Umberto Grandi (u.grandi at uva.nl), Tong Wang (tongwang01 at gmail.com), or Matthijs Westera (M.Westera at uva.nl).
26-30 September 2011, Ninth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation, Kutaisi, Georgia
The Ninth Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation will be held in in Kutaisi, Georgia, from September 26 to 30, 2011. The Symposium is organized by the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) of the University of Amsterdam in conjunction with the Centre for Language, Logic and Speech at the Tbilisi State University, the Georgian Academy of Sciences and the Akaki Tsereteli State University. The 2011 forum is the ninth instalment of a series of biannual Symposia.
For more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/Tbilisi/Tbilisi2011/
28 September 2011, Computational Linguistics Seminar, Andreas van Cranenburgh
For more information and abstracts, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/LaCo/CLS/
26-30 September 2011, Ninth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation, Kutaisi, Georgia
The Ninth Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation will be held in in Kutaisi, Georgia, from September 26 to 30, 2011. The Symposium is organized by the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) of the University of Amsterdam in conjunction with the Centre for Language, Logic and Speech at the Tbilisi State University, the Georgian Academy of Sciences and the Akaki Tsereteli State University. The 2011 forum is the ninth instalment of a series of biannual Symposia.
For more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/Tbilisi/Tbilisi2011/
29 September 2011, Sheaf Logic & Philosophical Synthesis
For more information, see http://versuslaboratory.janvaneyck.nl/seminars/view/27
26-30 September 2011, Ninth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation, Kutaisi, Georgia
The Ninth Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation will be held in in Kutaisi, Georgia, from September 26 to 30, 2011. The Symposium is organized by the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) of the University of Amsterdam in conjunction with the Centre for Language, Logic and Speech at the Tbilisi State University, the Georgian Academy of Sciences and the Akaki Tsereteli State University. The 2011 forum is the ninth instalment of a series of biannual Symposia.
For more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/Tbilisi/Tbilisi2011/