Colloquia of 2010

In the colloquium series of The Language and Speech unit 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:

Daphne Theijssen
Eric Sanders
Nelleke Oostdijk
Maarten Versteegh

We are currently working on the colloquium series of 2010. Please check this page regularly for updates on speakers and topics.

  1st Speaker (10:45h) 2nd Speaker (11:30h)
February 23:
Building: Erasmus
Room: 20.12
NB: on Tuesday!

Language Technology in Education

Paola Monachesi (UU)
Language Technology and Social Media in eLearning
Rintse van der Werf & Roland Groen (Edia)
Language Technology in Adaptive Learning Systems
March 3rd:
Building: Erasmus
Room: 2.18
Language Evolution
Jelle Zuidema (UvA - ILLC)
Biological prerequisites for grammar (or whether recursion is monkey business)
Bart de Boer (UvA - ACLC)
Air sacs and the evolution of speech
April 7th:
Building: Erasmus
Room: 1.18
Multimedia Retrieval
Roeland Ordelman (UTwente/Beeld & Geluid)
Audiovisual content exploitation: from technology-push to technology-pull
Wessel Kraaij (RU/TNO)
TRECVID: Benchmarking content based video retrieval technology
May 12th:
Building: Erasmus
Room: 2.51
Customer Interaction
Mandy Schiffrin (Q-Go)
Making sense of nonsense
Jakub Zavrel (Textkernel)
Eliminating Barriers in Recruitment by Document Understanding
June 2nd:
Building: Erasmus
Room: 2.62
Language technology: Bridging the gap between open source and research
Simon Brouwer (OpenTaal)
Language should be free
Antal van de Bosch (Tilburg University)
Echoes of Lost Memories: Progress versus Preservation in NLP Research Software

Colloquia of previous years