Colloquia of 2013

In the colloquium series of the CLS PI groups Language and Speech Technology and Language and Speech, Learning and Therapy speakers from companies and academic institutions are invited to present their work. Four times a year two speakers talk about a subject that is related to the field of language and speech technology. The colloquium usually 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:

Eva d'Hondt
Stephen Bodnar
Bart Penning de Vries
Job Schepens
Florian Kunneman
Odette Scharenborg
Eric Sanders

These were the colloquia of 2013.

  1st Speaker (10:45) 2nd Speaker (11:30)
March 20th:
Binyam Gebrekidan Gebre (MPI)
The Gesturer is the Speaker
Matt Coler (INCAS3)
Charting the Noospere: Mapping Internal Realities to External Worlds
April 17th:
Makiko Sadakata (Donders Institute)
EarOpener: Perceptual learning via decoded-ERP neurofeedback
Helmer Strik (CLST)
CALL systems for speaking practice in a foreign language
May 15th:
Phong Le (UvA)
Learning Compositional Semantics for Open Domain Semantic Parsing
Tim Van de Cruys (IRIT, Toulouse
A Distributional Account of Sense and Compositionality
November 13th:
Antske Fokkens & Marieke van Erp (The Network Institute, VU Amsterdam)
from Reproduction Problems: What Replication Failure Teaches Us
Antal van den Bosch (CLS & CIW)
Discussion: from Reproduction Problems: What Replication Failure Teaches Us in response to Fokkens et al. 2006

Colloquia of previous years