Colloquia of 2011

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 2011. Please check this page regularly for updates on speakers and topics.

  1st Speaker (10:45h) 2nd Speaker (11:30h)
March 2nd:
Building: Erasmus
Room: E2.70
Modelling first language acquisition
Margaux Smets (KU Leuven)
A U-DOP approach to modeling language acquisition
Gideon Borensztajn (UvA)
A connectionist model of grammar acquisition through topology formation inspired by the Memory Prediction Framework
April 6th:
Building: Erasmus
Room: E2.70
Internet data for L&S Research
Carsten Eickhoff (TuD)
How Crowdsourcable is your Task?
Claudia Peersman (UvAntwerp)
Age and Gender Prediction on Netlog Posts
May 11th:
Building: Erasmus
Room: E2.70
The history of LST
Leonoor van der Beek
Of Mathematicians and Phycists

June 1st:
Building: Erasmus
Room: E2.70
Forensic automatic speaker recognition
Didier Mieuwly (NFI)
Forensic automatic speaker recognition

Colloquia of previous years