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. Every quarter at least two speakers talk about a subject that is related to the field of language and speech technology. The colloquia usually took place from 10:45 to 12:15 on the campus of the University of Nijmegen. The committee members in 2015 were:
Mario Ganzeboom
Florian Kunneman
Odette Scharenborg
| 1st Speaker (10:45) | 2nd Speaker (11:20 or 11:30, if 2 speakers) | 3rd Speaker (11:55) | |
| June 24th: (new date, was April 22nd) Building: Erasmus Room: E2.06 | Language attrition | ||
| Dr. M.C.J. (Merel) Keijzer (Department of Applied Linguistics, University of Groningen, Groningen) A hole in my brain where my mother tongue used to be |
Mirjam Broersma PhD. (CLS, RU), Jiyoun Choi, PhD. (Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea; Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen), Wencui Zhou (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen) Do international adoptees really forget their first language? Perceiving and producing birth language phonology |
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| June 18th Building: Erasmus Room: E2.18 Time: 15:30 - 17:00, drinks & snacks afterwards! |
Second Language Acquisition | ||
| From 15:30 Shannon Sauro PhD. (Department of Culture, Languages & Media, Malmö University) Report from Middle Earth: Bringing Fanfiction into the EFL Classroom |
From 16:15 Prof. Dr. Alex Housen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) A cognitive perspective on L2 complexity - A difficult(y) matter |
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| November 11th Building: Erasmus Room: E3.04 Time: 10:45 - 12:30 |
Learning word representations | ||
| Stefan Frank PhD. (Faculty of Arts, Radboud University Nijmegen, Honorary Senior Research Associate at Dept. of Experimental Psychology, UC London) Word anticipation during language comprehension: surprisal and semantic distance have distinct neural correlates |
Grzegorz Chrupala PhD. (Tilburg Center for Cognition and Communication, Tilburg University) Visually grounded sentence representations via multi-task learning |
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| TBA | |||