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1 October 2008, Algebra|Coalgebra Seminar, Luca Alberucci and Alessandro Facchini

Date & Time: Wednesday 1 October 2008, 15:00-17:00
Speaker: Luca Alberucci and Alessandro Facchini
Title: The Modal Mu-Calculus over Restricted Classes of Transition Systems
Location: Room P019, Euclides Building, Plantage Muidergracht 24, Amsterdam

For more information, see http://staff.science.uva.nl/~yde/ac/seminar.html or contact Yde Venema ().

3 October 2008, ILPS Seminar, Maarten Clements

Date & Time: Friday 3 October 2008, 13:30-14:30
Speaker: Maarten Clements
()
Title: Personalised search in social content systems
Location: Room F.009, Informatics Institute, Kruislaan 403, Amsterdam

For abstracts and more information, see http://ilps.science.uva.nl/ilps-seminar-2008-2#Oct3.

3 October 2008, DIP Colloquium, Anastasia Giannakidou

Date & Time: Friday 3 October 2008, 16:00-17:30
Speaker: Anastasia Giannakidou (Chicago)
Title: Polarity phenomena in natural language: Variation, scalarity,
and dependent reference
Location: Room 001 (MFR), Philosophy Department, Vendelstraat 8, Amsterdam

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

9 October 2008, GLoRiClass Seminar, Pelle Guldborg Hansen

Date & Time: Thursday 9 October 2008, 10:00-12:00
Speaker: Pelle Guldborg Hansen (Roskilde)
Title: Learning and the problem of the emergence of convention: do stationarity assumptions imply a vicious circularity or a key to salvation?
Location: P.327, Euclides Building, Plantage Muidergracht 24, Amsterdam

17 October 2008, ILPS Seminar, Frank Nack

Date & Time: Friday 17 October 2008, 13:30-14:30
Speaker: Frank Nack
Title: From automatic creativity to nomadic communication
Location: Room F.009, Informatics Institute, Kruislaan 403, Amsterdam

For abstracts and more information, see http://ilps.science.uva.nl/ilps-seminar-2008-2#Oct17.

17 October 2008, DIP Colloquium,
Guy Politzer
/
Keith Stenning

Date & Time: Friday 17 October 2008, 16:00-17:30
Speaker: Guy Politzer (Institut Nicod)
/
Keith Stenning (Edinburgh)
Title: Natural syllogisms / Causal cognition--some philosophical preliminaries
Location: Room 001 (MFR), Philosophy Department, Vendelstraat 8, Amsterdam

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

17 October 2008, Colloquium on Mathematical Logic, Adrian Mathias

Date & Time: Friday 17 October 2008, 16:00-17:00
Speaker: Adrian Mathias
Location: <em>(changed)</em>
Room P.019, Euclides Building (P), Plantage Muidergracht 24, Amsterdam
(Tram 9 from Central Station, to Plantage Badlaan).

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

20 October 2008, Logic Tea, Walter Carnielli

Date & Time: Monday 20 October 2008, 17:00-18:00
Speaker: Walter Carnielli
Title: Sewing Logics Together: the possible-translations semantics and new meanings for old logics
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 Edgar Andrade ()

22 October 2008, Computational Linguistics Seminar, Federico Sangati

Date & Time: Wednesday 22 October 2008, 15:30
Speaker: Federico Sangati
Title: Unsupervised Methods for Head Assignments
Location: P.327, Euclides building, Plantage Muidergracht 24, Amsterdam

I will present several algorithms for assigning heads in phrase structure trees, based on different linguistic intuitions on the role of heads in natural language syntax. The starting point of the approach is the observation that a head-annotated treebank defines a unique lexicalized tree substitution grammar. This allows us to go back and forth between the two representations, and define objective functions for the unsupervised learning of head assignments in terms of features of the implicit lexicalized tree grammars. We evaluate algorithms based on the match with gold standard head-annotations, and the comparative parsing accuracy of the lexicalized grammars they give rise to.

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

23-25 October 2008, The Making of the Humanities: First International Conference on the History of the Humanities, Amsterdam

Date: 23-25 October 2008
Location: Amsterdam

This conference brings together scholars and historians of the various humanities disciplines to draw the outlines for a comparative history of the humanities. An edited book is planned, with the provisional title "Another History of Science: The Making of the Humanities".

Organizers: Rens Bod, Jaap Maat and Thijs Weststeijn. For more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/MakingHumanities/

23-25 October 2008, The Making of the Humanities: First International Conference on the History of the Humanities, Amsterdam

Date: 23-25 October 2008
Location: Amsterdam

This conference brings together scholars and historians of the various humanities disciplines to draw the outlines for a comparative history of the humanities. An edited book is planned, with the provisional title "Another History of Science: The Making of the Humanities".

Organizers: Rens Bod, Jaap Maat and Thijs Weststeijn. For more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/MakingHumanities/

24 October 2008, Intercity Seminar on the Philosophy of Mathematics, Anne Troelstra / H. Philipse

Date & Time: Friday 24 October 2008, 14:00-16:30
Speaker: Anne Troelstra / H. Philipse
Title: Intuitionism / Platonism or psychologism in mathematics: A false dilemma? Frege, Husserl, and Wittgenstein on the philosophy of mathematics
Location: Room 4.26, Buys-Ballot Laboratory, Princetonplein 5, Utrecht.

For abstracts and more information, see http://www.math.ru.nl/~landsman/PP.html

24 October 2008, Computational Social Choice Seminar, Mathijs de Weerdt

Date & Time: Friday 24 October 2008, 16:00
Speaker: Mathijs de Weerdt (Delft)
Title: A Strategy-Proof Auction Mechanism without Money
Location: P-3.27, Euclides Building, Plantage Muidergracht 24, Amsterdam

For more information, see here or https://www.illc.uva.nl/~ulle/seminar/, or contact Ulle Endriss ().

23-25 October 2008, The Making of the Humanities: First International Conference on the History of the Humanities, Amsterdam

Date: 23-25 October 2008
Location: Amsterdam

This conference brings together scholars and historians of the various humanities disciplines to draw the outlines for a comparative history of the humanities. An edited book is planned, with the provisional title "Another History of Science: The Making of the Humanities".

Organizers: Rens Bod, Jaap Maat and Thijs Weststeijn. For more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/MakingHumanities/

27th October 2008, Logic Tea, Martin Bentzen

Date & Time: Monday 27th October 2008, 17:00-18:00
Speaker: Martin Bentzen
Title: Judging Free Agents - Towards a Formal Theory of Responsibility
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 Edgar Andrade ().

30 October 2008, PROSE Colloquium, Francien Dechesne

Date & Time: Thursday 30 October 2008, 15:30-16:30
Speaker: Francien Dechesne
Title: Refinement of Kripke Models for Dynamics
Location: Room 6.96, HG (Main Building), TU Eindhoven

For more information, see http://www.win.tue.nl/prose/

31 October 2008, ILPS Seminar, Willem Robert van Hage

Date & Time: Friday 31 October 2008, 13:30-14:30
Speaker: Willem Robert van Hage
()
Title: Evaluation of the OAEI 2006 & 2007 food thesaurus alignment task
Location: Room F.009, Informatics Institute, Kruislaan 403, Amsterdam

For abstracts and more information, see http://ilps.science.uva.nl/ilps-seminar-2008-2#Oct31.