<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Starting
this semester The Language Archive (TLA) of the MPI for Psycholinguistics will
organize a new lecture series in the broad area of E-Humanities.</span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">We
would like to invite you to these lectures, which are open to everybody who is
interested.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Program:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Speaker:<span> </span><b>Mike Kestemont</b> (University of Antwerp)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:72.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Title:<span> </span><i>The Weight of the Author. Quantitative
authorship attribution in medieval Dutch literature</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Mike
Kestemont is a PHD student at the University of Antwerp, where he is affiliated
with the CLiPS language technology group and the medieval group of the
Institute for the Study of Literature in the Netherlands (ISLN). His research
focuses on the (computational) analysis of historical literature in the field
of traditional stylistics in semi-literate cultures (e.g. Middle Dutch epic
poetry).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Date,
time:<span> </span>May 9, 2012, 10:30-11:30.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Location:<span> </span>MPI for Psycholinguistics,
conference room 163</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="NL">Speaker:<span> </span><b>Antal van den Bosch</b> (Radboud University
Nijmegen)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Title:<span> </span><i>Big Linguistic Data</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Antal
van den Bosch is professor of example based language modeling at the Centre for
Language Studies of the Radboud University Nijmegen. His research focuses on
the intersection of computational understanding of language and computational
generation of language.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Date,
time:<span> </span>June 6, 2012, 14:30-15:30</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Location:<span> </span>MPI for Psycholinguistics,
conference room 163</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Speaker:<span> </span><b>Alexander Mehler</b> (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Title<span> </span> <i>Linguistic Networks: Text-technological Representation and Quantitative
Analysis</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Alexander
Mehler is professor at the text technology lab of the Goethe University in
Frankfurt am Main. His research focuses on quantitative computational methods,
for instance on semantics, multimodal corpora, and parallel corpora.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Date,
time:<span> </span>July 11, 2012, 14:30-15:30</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Location:<span> </span>MPI for Psycholinguistics,
conference room 163</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">The lectures are free of charge and open
to the public. </span><span lang="EN-US">If you wish to attend please send an e-mail to
</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:tla-lectures@mpi.nl" target="_blank"><span>tla-lectures@mpi.nl</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">Due to unforeseen circumstances, lectures can
be cancelled at short notice. It is therefore advisable to confirm dates :
<a href="tel:%2B31-%280%2924-3521911" value="+31243521911" target="_blank">+31-(0)24-3521911</a>.</span></p><span class="HOEnZb"></span><br>