In the colloquium series of The Department of Language and Speech speakers from companies and academic institutions are invited to present their work. Each month two speakers talk about a subject that is related to the field of language and speech technology. The colloquium takes place from 10:45 to 12:15 on the campus of the University of Nijmegen. All people interested are kindly invited! For further information on the colloquia please contact one of the members of the colloquium committee:
Louis ten Bosch
Eric Sanders
Suzan Verberne
| 1st Speaker (10:45h) | 2nd Speaker (11:30h) | |
| February 20th: Building: Erasmus Building Room: E 20.05 | Optimality Theory | |
| Paul Boersma (UvA)
Optimal communication: explaining markedness and licensing by cue |
Helen de Hoop (RU)
Optimal communication: the case of object fronting in Dutch |
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| March 19th: Building: Erasmus Building Room: E 20.05 | Modelling natural language semantics | |
| Kris Heylen and Yves Peirsman (KU Leuven)
Dutch Word Space Models: Context Selection and Evaluation Methods |
Discussion (non-plenary)
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| April 16th: Building: Erasmus Building Room: E 2.16 | ||
| Tim van de Cruys (RUG)
Exploiting Topic Models for Word Sense Discrimination |
Mirjam Broersma (MPI)
Where second language listeners hear words that are not really there |
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| May 14th: | No colloquium | |
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| June 11th: Building: Erasmus Building Room: 20.05 | ||
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Padraic Monaghan (Lancaster University, UK)
Speech segmentation and categorisation: Artificial language learning studies |
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