Colloquia of 2012

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 15:30 to 17:00 (new time slot!) 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:

Eva D'hondt
Stephen Bodnar
Bart Penning de Vries
Maarten Versteegh
Eric Sanders

We are currently working on the colloquium series of 2012. Please check this page regularly for updates on speakers and topics.

  1st Speaker (15:30) 2nd Speaker (16:15)
February 15th:
Building: Erasmus
Room: E2.05
Telecare
Maria Wolters (CSTR Edinburgh)
Monitoring and Reminding: How much is too much?
No second speaker
March 7th:
Building: Erasmus
Room: E3.04
Event Extraction
Steven Bethard (University of Colorado Boulder)
Extracting Timelines from Unstructured Text
Canceled
April 4th:
Building: Erasmus
Room: E3.01
Computer-mediated Communication and Language Learning
Kirsti Jauregi (Utrecht University)
Enhancing learners' motivation by facilitation native non-native speaker interactions through video-web communication and Second Life
Canceled
May 23rd:
Building: Erasmus
Room: E3.15
HLT in Applications
Michel Boedeltje (Telecats)
Speech Recognition in the Courtroom
No second speaker
June 6th:
Building: Erasmus
Room: E3.04
Language in the Brain
Patti Adank (University of Manchester)
Using neuroimaging to elucidate the robustness of human spoken language comprehension
Laura Menenti (MPI Nijmegen)
Speaking brains: fMRI in speech production and conversation
June 18th:
Building: Erasmus
Room: E20.05
Time: 10:45 !
Special colloquium preluding Daphne Theijssen's PhD defense: Learning Syntactic Alternations
R. Harald Baayen (Eberhard Karls University, Tuebingen)
Grounding probability in language in basic grounding of learning
Joan Bresnan (Stanford University)
Do children learn syntactic usage probabilities?

Colloquia of previous years