About the seminars

• The Language Technology Seminars was an idea put forward by the GoDAG Group
• This seminar series will alternate with GoDAG meetings.
• All are welcome. Especially people with an interest in Language Technology
• These seminars will be held in Akvariet(F304) unless otherwise stated
• Related seminar series:
  • Language and Logic
  • Logic seminars at Dept. of Philosophy (Old)
    

LT seminars Spring 2004

• 20 February, 13-15: Free Slot.
• 27 February, 13-15: "Xstream". Torbjörn Lager
• 05 March, 13-15: "Multi-Agent dialogue systems in Xstream". Fredrik Kronlid
• 19 March, 13-15: "Skrivstöd i undervisningen". Sylvana Sofkova Hashemi
  
• 02 April, 13-15: "On some experimental multimodal dialogue systems developed at Telia". Johan Boye
• 07 May, 13-15: "Talteknologi på Telefonica". Rebecca Jonsson
• 28 May, 13-15: "HPSG & SHARDS". Stina Ericsson
• 03 June, 13-15: Free slot
• 11 June, 13-15: "How to Improve concatenative synthesis - if that is your only choice". Jonas Lindh
• TBA: "Godis Mindstorms". Staffan Larsson

Previous LT seminars

LT seminars Autumn 2003

• 9 October, 15-17: "Xstream". Torbjörn Lager & Fredrik Kronlid
• 6 November 15-17: "Cross-speaker contrastive rhetorical relations". Kavita Thomas
• 20 November 15-17: "GoDiS Mindstorms". Staffan Larsson.
• 21 November 13-15: "OT & Centering". Beaver. Stina Ericsson & Robin Cooper
• 4 December 15-17: "Decycling Context-Free Grammars". Kenneth Wilhelmsson
  
• 5 December 13-15: "FiniteCheck - The Future?". Sylvana Sofkova Hashemi
  
• 11 December 13-15: "Informationsstruktur & OT". Benjamin Lyngfelt & Stina Ericsson
• 18 December 15-17: "Xstream II". Torbjörn Lager & Fredrik Kronlid
• 19 December 13-15: "Records in Oz". Robin Cooper.
  

LT seminars Spring 2003

• 10 April. 15-17, room E230. Logic programming, the imperfective paradox and coercion. Fritz Hamm
• 24 April. 13.15-15. Introduction to Optimality Theory. Benjamin Lyngfelt
  • The seminar will start with a general introduction to Optimality Theory (OT). Where we go from there depends to a large extent on the interests of the audience. Some possible subtopics are Bidirectional Optimization, Stochastic OT, and Implementation.
  • Reading material: Introduktion till optimalitetsteori
• 8 May. 13.15-15. David Beaver's The optimization of discourse anaphora. Stina Ericsson & Robin Cooper
• 15 May. 13.15-15, room E230. (Rich) Minimalism. Erland Gadelii
• 22 May. 13.15-17. LTsem dialogue system workshop:
  • 13.15-15. Grammatik-baserad och statistisk taligenkänning; jämförda och kombinerade. Genevieve Gorrell
    • Språkmodellering för begränsad-domän-taligenkänning är idag dominerad av 2 approacher. Statistiska språkmodeller har föredragits sen länge i den akademiska världen medan grammatik-baserad taligenkänning används mest i industrin. Vad finns för för- och nackdelar hos de 2 approacherna? Och ska man verkligen välja?
  • 15.15-17. In Dialogue with a Desktop Calculator: A Concurrent Stream Processing Approach to Building Simple Dialogue Systems. Torbjörn Lager
    • Human spontaneous face-to-face conversations are characterized by phenomena such as turn-taking, feedback, sounds of hesitation and repairs. Also, ambiguity and the resolution of ambiguity work in a different way in spoken language. The purpose of the present paper is to propose a computational framework - Concurrent Stream Processing - in which modeling of this kind of interaction becomes simple and natural. The main attraction of this approach is that two important things come almost for free: incrementality and modularity. Incrementality makes seamless interaction possible. Modularity helps us fight the complexity inherent in building systems like these.
• 5 June. 13.15-15. XP - Extreme Programming. Fredrik Kronlid

LT seminars Autumn 2002

• Planning: Robin (2002-09-26 16.15 - 17.00)
  • overview/directions of our research - I'll try to summarize, tie together and talk about where we might go in the future.
  • visitor: Tomoyuki Yamada, Professor of Philosophy, Hokkaido Univ (interested in speech acts, situation theory) visiting 25/9-4/10, talking 1/10 Högre sem. http://www.hucc.hokudai.ac.jp/~k15696/home/yamada/yamada.html If you are interested, reserve some time to meet with him during his visit.

• Introduction to TrindiKit: Staffan (2002-10-10, 13.15 - 15.00)
  • this meeting resulted in a list of TrindiKit future work

• Stanley Peters talk, Filosofen (2002-10-17, 14.00 - 16.00

• TrindiKit cont'd, GoDiS: Staffan (2002-10-31, 13.15 - 15.00)

• Incremental parsing for dialogue systems: Torbjörn (2002-11-21, 13.15 - 15.00)

• Dialogue systems from Östgötaslätten: Pontus (2002-12-05, 13.15 - 15.00)

• Talking to Lego Mindstorms robots: Staffan (2002-12-19, 13.15 - 15.00)

LT seminars Spring 2002

• The first LT seminar took place on Thursday the 21st of February 2002 at 1.15pm
  • This will be an informal seminar on "Minimal Recursion Semantics" given by Stina Ericsson
  • The topics discussed will center around three papers by Ann Copestake and colleagues which can be downloaded below.
    • Copestake, Flickinger, Sag & Pollard. Minimal Recursion Semantics: An Introduction
    • Copestake, Flickinger, Malouf, Riehemann & Sag. Translation using Minimal Recursion Semantics
    • Copestake, Lascarides & Flickinger. An Algebra for Semantic Construction in Constraint-based Grammars