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2 December 2008, Computational Linguistics Seminar, Gideon Borensztajn
For more information and abstracts, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/LaCo/CLS/
4-6 December 2008, LINT Workshop - Logic for Interaction
As part of the program of the ESF Eurocores LogICCC program "Logic for Interaction - LINT", a workshop is organized at ILLC in Amsterdam December 4-6, 2008.
The program starts December 4 after lunch and ends December 6 lunch time. The workshop will have four tutorials. They will be given by Samson Abramsky on Game Semantics, Dietmar Berwanger on Imperfect Information Games, Denis Bonnay on Logic Constants and Jouko Väänänen on Dependence Logic. In addition there will be presentations by Fredrik Engström, Pietro Galliani, Juha Kontinen, Allen Mann, Bernd Puchala, and Nikos Tzevelekos. An Opening Talk on Logic for Interaction will be given by Johan van Benthem.
The organizer of the workshop is Jouko Väänänen.
Lecture halls are Thursday P015A, Friday P018, and Saturday P327.
For more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/lint/workshop2008.php
4-6 December 2008, LINT Workshop - Logic for Interaction
As part of the program of the ESF Eurocores LogICCC program "Logic for Interaction - LINT", a workshop is organized at ILLC in Amsterdam December 4-6, 2008.
The program starts December 4 after lunch and ends December 6 lunch time. The workshop will have four tutorials. They will be given by Samson Abramsky on Game Semantics, Dietmar Berwanger on Imperfect Information Games, Denis Bonnay on Logic Constants and Jouko Väänänen on Dependence Logic. In addition there will be presentations by Fredrik Engström, Pietro Galliani, Juha Kontinen, Allen Mann, Bernd Puchala, and Nikos Tzevelekos. An Opening Talk on Logic for Interaction will be given by Johan van Benthem.
The organizer of the workshop is Jouko Väänänen.
Lecture halls are Thursday P015A, Friday P018, and Saturday P327.
For more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/lint/workshop2008.php
5 December 2008, DIP Colloquium, Chung-Chieh Shan
For abstracts and more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/dip/.
4-6 December 2008, LINT Workshop - Logic for Interaction
As part of the program of the ESF Eurocores LogICCC program "Logic for Interaction - LINT", a workshop is organized at ILLC in Amsterdam December 4-6, 2008.
The program starts December 4 after lunch and ends December 6 lunch time. The workshop will have four tutorials. They will be given by Samson Abramsky on Game Semantics, Dietmar Berwanger on Imperfect Information Games, Denis Bonnay on Logic Constants and Jouko Väänänen on Dependence Logic. In addition there will be presentations by Fredrik Engström, Pietro Galliani, Juha Kontinen, Allen Mann, Bernd Puchala, and Nikos Tzevelekos. An Opening Talk on Logic for Interaction will be given by Johan van Benthem.
The organizer of the workshop is Jouko Väänänen.
Lecture halls are Thursday P015A, Friday P018, and Saturday P327.
For more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/lint/workshop2008.php
8 December 2008, Parallelle Werelden (NWO)
De ontwikkelingen binnen de disciplines Astronomie, Informatica en Wiskunde lijken vaak parallel te verlopen. In de praktijk versterken ze elkaar tot op grote hoogte. NWO Exacte Wetenschappen nodigt u uit om tijdens het congres Parallelle Werelden op maandag 8 december 2008 in het Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ deze werelden te bezoeken.
Parallelle Werelden wordt een unieke dag die u niet mag missen. Dit evenement is de plek om u te inspireren en te komen tot verrassende ontmoetingen met andere disciplines. Beleef op een bijzondere wijze de succesverhalen, de huidige ontwikkelingen en de plannen die binnen het NWO-gebied op stapel staan. Maak kennis met topwetenschappers uit de verschillende disciplines, de samenwerkingspartners en geïnteresseerden van overheid en bedrijfsleven en de medewerkers van het EW-bureau.
Voor meer informatie, zie http://www.parallellewerelden.nl/
8 December 2008, Logic Tea, Jakub Szymanik (ILLC)
The Logic Tea homepage can be found at https://www.illc.uva.nl/logic_tea/ For more information, please contact Edgar Andrade (E.J.AndradeLotero at uva.nl), Lorenz Demey (lorenzdemey at hotmail.com), or Yurii Khomskii (Y.D.Khomskii at uva.nl).
11 December 2008, GLoRiClass Seminar, Martin Magnusson
Creating Smarter Computer Game Characters
For more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/GLoRiClass/index.php?page=4
15 December 2008, From Perception to Symbols, Amitabha Mukerjee
- G. K. Chesterton, The Paradoxes of Christianity
While it is clear that there are a lot of regularities in the world, whether these can be handled by formal, symbolic processes is a question that is being widely debated today. In this work, we present computational evidence for the process by which symbols may arise from perceptual input (2D and 3D videos). Based on cognitive psychology models of pre-linguistic "perceptual schemas", we use unsupervised clustering on an intuitive feature space for object shapes, relative positions, and actions, we show how concepts corresponding to nouns, prepositions and verbs can be acquired. Finally, we show how these "prior" schemas can now be associated with linguistic commentary to pick out the words that best correspond to the concepts in the target language. These associations, with a semantic pole (the grounded perceptual schema) linked to a phonological pole (the word learned) constitute our elementary symbols. One of the primary differences with formal models of semantics is that the meaning associations for these symbols are plastic, and can be altered by subsequent experience. Issues regarding the composition of symbols indicate a preference for frequently occurring data, which is also typical of linguistic usage.
15 December 2008, Logic Tea, Amélie Gheerbrant (ILLC)
The relevant paper can be downloaded from https://www.illc.uva.nl/Publications/ResearchReports/PP-2008-44.text.pdf. For more information on this talk and future events please refer to the website at https://www.illc.uva.nl/logic_tea/ or contact Edgar Andrade (E.J.AndradeLotero at uva.nl), Lorenz Demey (lorenzdemey at hotmail.com), or Yurii Khomskii (Y.D.Khomskii at uva.nl).
16 December 2008, NWO-Spinoza debate, Henkjan Honing
Wat is gewoon en wat is bijzonder aan muzikaliteit? Is het herkennen van ingewikkelde melodieën bijzonder, en het meeklappen op de maat van de muziek gewoon? Het zou wel eens precies andersom kunnen zijn.
Elke derde dinsdag van de maand vindt in Paard van Troje het NWO-Spinozadebat plaats. Op 16 december verkent Henkjan Honing, universitair hoofddocent muziekcognitie, een aantal visies op het ontstaan van muziek en de actieve rol van luisteraar daarin. Van het ritmegevoel van pasgeboren baby's tot een op muziek dansende kaketoe en van het maatgevoel van kleuters tot de onvermoede muzikale expertise van gewone luisteraars.
Voor meer informatie, zie http://www.nwo.nl/nwohome.nsf/pages/NWOA_7JRDJE
16 December 2008, Paard van Troje: NWO-Spinozadebat, Henkjan Honing
Elke derde dinsdag van de maand vindt in Paard van Troje het NWO-Spinozadebat plaats. Op deze avonden komt de absolute wetenschappelijke top van Nederland naar het Haagse poppodium om de fascinerende kanten van hun vakgebied uit te leggen. En dan niet met behulp van ellenlange formules, grafieken en tabellen maar in begrijpelijke taal.
Of de avond interessant wordt hangt van het publiek af. Het is namelijk aan de bezoekers om te komen met prangende vragen die de aanzet zijn voor verdere discussie. Geen voorgekookt programma dus maar interactie met het publiek. Teleac registreert het debat en zendt het via internet en televisie uit.
Op 16 december 2008 komt het volgende onderwerp aan bod: Dit is Muziek door Henkjan Honing (ILLC / UvA).
Voor meer informatie, zie http://www.nwo.nl/nwohome.nsf/pages/NWOA_7JRD72
17 December 2008, Computational Linguistics Seminar, Canceled
For more information and abstracts, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/LaCo/CLS/
19 December 2008, ILLC Open House
You are cordially invited to the ILLC Open House in Felix Meritis on 19 december 2008 from 12.00 until 19.00hrs.
The purpose of this event, organized by the the Institute for Logic, Language
and Computation (ILLC) of the University of Amsterdam, is fourfold:
- an afternoon in which the ILLC presents itself to the outer world
- the traditional annual ILLC Alumni Event
- changing of ILLC director and
- Christmas drinks
In between lectures there will be cultural and musical performances by ILLC members.
The full programme can be found on https://www.illc.uva.nl/NewsandEvents/OpenHouse. To register or for more information, please contact illc at uva.nl.