32.3623, FYI: Monthly Online ILFC Seminar: Interactions between Formal and Computational Linguistics

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Subject: 32.3623, FYI: Monthly Online ILFC Seminar: Interactions between Formal and Computational Linguistics

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Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2021 08:04:22
From: Timothée Bernard [timothee.bernard at u-paris.fr]
Subject: Monthly Online ILFC Seminar: Interactions between Formal and Computational Linguistics

 
https://gdr-lift.loria.fr/monthy-online-ilfc-seminar/

GdR LIFT is happy to announce the three forthcoming sessions of the ILFC
seminar on the interactions between formal and computational linguistics:

11/16/2021 17:00-18:00 UTC+1: Alex Lascarides (University of Edinburgh;
16:00-17:00 UTC+0)
Title: Situated Communication
Abstract: This talk focuses on how to represent and reason about the content
of conversation when it takes place in an embodied, dynamic environment. I
will argue that speakers can, and do, appropriate non-linguistic events into
their communicative intents, even when those events weren't produced with the
intention of being a part of a discourse. Indeed, non-linguistic events can
contribute an (instance of) a proposition to the content of the speaker's
message, even when her verbal signal contains no demonstratives or anaphora of
any kind.
I will argue that representing and reasoning about discourse coherence is
essential to capturing these features of situated conversation. I will make
two claims: first, non-linguistic events affect rhetorical structure in
non-trivial ways; and secondly, rhetorical structure guides the
conceptualisation of non-linguistic events. I will support the first claim via
empirical observations from the STAC corpus (www.irit.fr/STAC/corpus.html) — a
corpus of dialogues that take place between players during the board game
Settlers of Catan. I will support the second claim via experiments in
Interactive Task Learning: a software agent jointly learns how to
conceptualise the domain, ground previously unknown words in the embodied
environment, and solve its planning problem, by using the evidence of an
expert's corrective (verbal) feedback on its physical actions.
 
12/14/2021 17:00-18:00 UTC+1: Lisa Bylinina (Bookarang, Netherlands)
Title: NLP and ML engineer
Abstract: [TBA]

01/18/2022 17:00-18:00 UTC+1: Johan Bos (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
Title: [TBA]
Abstract: [TBA]

The seminar is held on Zoom. To attend the seminar and get updates, please
register to be on our mailing list:
https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/subscribe/seminaire_ilfc

Please note that earlier announcements indicated an incorrect time for next
week's presentation by Alex Lascarides (we had not taken into account the
switch from summer time to winter time so the UTC time zones were wrong).
 



Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics





 



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