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4 December 2007, ACG Colloquium, Yde Venema
For more information, see http://www.cwi.nl/htbin/acg/ACG.php4?mode=future
7 December 2007, GLoRiClass Evaluation Presentations
- 11:00-11:30 Cedric Degremont
- (designated supervisor: van Benthem)
Project title: Logic for Information and Interaction - 11:30-12:00 Amelie Gheerbrant
- (designated supervisors: ten Cate, Väänänen)
Project title: Model-theoretic properties of fragments of second-order logic on restricted classes of structures - 12:00-12:30 Marc Staudacher
- (designated supervisors: Dekker, van Rooij, Stokhof)
Project title: Convention, Cognition and Games
For more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/GLoRiClass/
7 December 2007 2007, ILPS Seminar, Cees G.M. Snoek
For abstracts and more information, see http://ilps.science.uva.nl/Seminar/seminar07-2.html#Dec7.
7 December 2007, GLoRiClass Seminar, Willemien Kets
For more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/GLoRiClass/index.php?page=4
12 December 2007, Computational Linguistics Seminar, Philipp Koehn
Machine translation is more relevant than ever, especially in a European Union with 23 official languages. What will happen to languages such as Dutch? Will it survive as a language of commerce, or will it be abandoned in favour of English? By lowering translation costs, we would expect to systain the viability of a commercial zone that uses so many different languages. Statistical machine translation holds the promise of instant machine translation. Given open source tools such the Moses decoder, just add a parallel corpus and you have a machine translation system. This talk will present some problems where the standard phrase-based approach fails, and where attention to the specifics of the languages involved is required. I will present methods that deal with different word order, morphology and agglutinative compounding.
For more information and abstracts, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/LaCo/CLS/
12 December 2007, Logic, Language, and Reasoning Seminar, Robin Clark
We examine the understanding of sentences containing a single quantifier. Subjects were asked to make truth value judgments of a sentence relative to a model (the latter presented visually), where each sentence contained a single quantifier which could be an Aristotelean (e.g., "all", "some", "no"), a cardinal determiner ("at least n", where n > 0), a parity determiner (e.g., "an even/odd number of") or a majority determiner (e.g., "more than half"). The judgment marshalled parts of the parietal lobe normally associated with number processing; furthermore, a neuroanatomical difference was noted between first order and higher order quantifiers. Based on these observations, we compared different populations---corticobasal degeneration (CBD) patients, fronto-temporal dementia (FTD) patients and Alzheimers (AZ) patients---with respect to their behavior on various types of quantifiers. The results suggest that understanding of sentences containing quantifiers crucially involves number sense.
For more information, see http://staff.science.uva.nl/~szymanik/LLR.html
13 December 2007, GLoRiClass Seminar, Robin Clark
For more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/GLoRiClass/index.php?page=4
14-15 December 2007, PALMYR-VI : Truth, Logic and Games, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Truth, one might think, is at the heart of reasoning, and of logic. But logic has moved on from bivalence. - Witness intuitionistic, quantum and paraconsistent logics. Furthermore, truth itself is a philosophically sticky subject: The jury is still out as to whether it is nothing (as the view of the deflationist can be caricatured) or everything (including the basis for a theory of meaning, as the truth-conditional semanticist might hold). This movement away from a classical reliance on the received views on truth has, in logic, come accompanied with alternative (notably game-theoretical) semantics for logical languages.
We want to know what young researchers working on philosophical or technical issues related to contemporary theories of truth think about all this. Therefore we have decided that PALMYR VI will bring them together, along with two more experienced guest speakers, so that we can determine exactly that.
For more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/PALMYR/PALMYR-6/.
14 December 2007, ILPS Seminar, Martin Reynaert
(TU)
For abstracts and more information, see http://ilps.science.uva.nl/Seminar/seminar07-2.html#Dec14.
14-15 December 2007, PALMYR-VI : Truth, Logic and Games, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Truth, one might think, is at the heart of reasoning, and of logic. But logic has moved on from bivalence. - Witness intuitionistic, quantum and paraconsistent logics. Furthermore, truth itself is a philosophically sticky subject: The jury is still out as to whether it is nothing (as the view of the deflationist can be caricatured) or everything (including the basis for a theory of meaning, as the truth-conditional semanticist might hold). This movement away from a classical reliance on the received views on truth has, in logic, come accompanied with alternative (notably game-theoretical) semantics for logical languages.
We want to know what young researchers working on philosophical or technical issues related to contemporary theories of truth think about all this. Therefore we have decided that PALMYR VI will bring them together, along with two more experienced guest speakers, so that we can determine exactly that.
For more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/PALMYR/PALMYR-6/.
17-19 December 2007, Sixteenth Amsterdam Colloquium 2007, Amsterdam
The Amsterdam Colloquia aim at bringing together linguists, philosophers, logicians and computer scientists who share an interest in the formal study of the semantics and pragmatics of natural and formal languages. The spectrum of topics covered ranges from descriptive (syntactic and semantic analyses of all kinds of expressions) to theoretical (logical and computational properties of semantic theories, philosophical foundations, evolution and learning of language).
For more information, see
17-19 December 2007, Sixteenth Amsterdam Colloquium 2007, Amsterdam
The Amsterdam Colloquia aim at bringing together linguists, philosophers, logicians and computer scientists who share an interest in the formal study of the semantics and pragmatics of natural and formal languages. The spectrum of topics covered ranges from descriptive (syntactic and semantic analyses of all kinds of expressions) to theoretical (logical and computational properties of semantic theories, philosophical foundations, evolution and learning of language).
For more information, see
17-19 December 2007, Sixteenth Amsterdam Colloquium 2007, Amsterdam
The Amsterdam Colloquia aim at bringing together linguists, philosophers, logicians and computer scientists who share an interest in the formal study of the semantics and pragmatics of natural and formal languages. The spectrum of topics covered ranges from descriptive (syntactic and semantic analyses of all kinds of expressions) to theoretical (logical and computational properties of semantic theories, philosophical foundations, evolution and learning of language).
For more information, see
20 December 2007, GLoRiClass Seminar, Valentin Goranko
For more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/GLoRiClass/index.php?page=4
20 December 2007, PROSE Colloquium, Cas Cremers
For more information, see http://www.win.tue.nl/prose/