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 |
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Paola Monachesi (UU) Language Technology and Social Media in eLearning |
Rintse van der Werf & Roland Groen (Edia)
Language Technology in Adaptive Learning Systems |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |