26.3616, Confs: Computational Linguistics/Sweden

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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 16:07:20
From: Shalom Lappin [shalom.lappin at kcl.ac.uk]
Subject: Language and Probability: The CLASP Inauguration Workshop

 
Language and Probability: The CLASP Inauguration Workshop 
Short Title: CLASP 

Date: 27-Aug-2015 - 27-Aug-2015 
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden 
Contact: Simon Dobnik 
Contact Email: simon.dobnik at gu.se 
Meeting URL: http://flov.gu.se/clasp/inauguration-workshop 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP) at the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg is hosting a one-day workshop to inaugurate the Centre on Thursday 27 August 2015 at Gothia Towers, Mässans gata 24, 402 26 Gothenburg, which is in the direct vicinity of the department.

The workshop will focus on core areas of CLASP's research mission. It will feature short talks by representatives from the university, the Swedish Research Council, CLASP researchers, and members of CLASP's international Scientific Advisory Committee. 

Programme:

09:00 - 09:45
Introducing CLASP 
(Shalom Lappin, Christina Thomsen Thörnqvist (Prefekt, FLOV), Margareta Hallberg (Dean, Faculty of Arts), Grants and Innovation Office representative)

09:45 - 10:15 Coffee break

10:15 - 10:45
Shalom Lappin, King's College London and University of Gothenburg
A Probabilistic View of Grammaticality Joint work with Jey Han Lau and Alexander Clark, King's College London

10:45 - 11:15
Alex Clark, King's College London
Learning Syntactic Structure: Weak Learning, Strong Learning and Canonical Grammars

11:15 - 11:30 Break

11:30 - 12:00
Aarne Ranta, Chalmers University of Technology
What are grammars good for?

12:00 - 12:30
Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University
Towards a Universal Grammar for Natural Language Processing

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 14:00
Charalambos Themistocleous, University of Gothenburg and Princeton University
Learning Linguistic Categories from Acoustic Structure: Towards a Speech Time Frequency Model

14:00 - 14:30
Lars Borin, University of Gothenburg
Multi-word expressions - eels in sheep’s clothing?

14:30 - 14:45 Break

14:45 - 15:15
Devdatt Dubhashi, Chalmers University of Technology
Distributed representations in NLP

15:15 - 15:45
Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, University of Gothenburg
Modern Type Theoretical Semantics, Inference and Probability Theory

15:45 - 16:15 Coffee break

16:15 - 16:45
Staffan Larsson, University of Gothenburg
Vagueness and Learning in Probabilistic TTR, work with Raquel Fernandez

16:45 - 17:15
Chris Howes, University of Gothenburg
Incremental Reasoning in Dialogue (IncReD), work with Ellen Breitholtz and Robin Cooper

17:15 - 17:30 Break

17:30 - 18:00
Simon Dobnik, University of Gothenburg
On Interfacing Language, Spatial Perception, Dialogue, and Cognition

18:00 - 18:30
Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin
Semantics as a Heterogeneous Mess, and How to Reason Over It

18:30 - 18:45
Final remarks





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