Double promotion
On Thursday December 8, 2011 Barbara and Çağrı will defend their dissertations (see the links for online versions, summaries etc.):
- Domain Adaptation for Parsing. by Barbara Plank. More info here
- Catching Words in a Stream of Speech. Computational simulations of segmenting transcribed child-directed speech. by Çağrı Çöltekin. More info here
The plan of the day
12:45 Defense Barbara Plank, Aula Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5
14:30 Defense Çağrı Çöltekin, Aula Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5
15:30 Reception in Academiegebouw, Spiegelzaal, Broerstraat 5
19:00 Party with buffet dinner in El Txoko, Oude Kijk in't Jatstraat 53
Related talks
Related to the public defenses of the dissertations, there will be a series of talks by researches coming to Groningen.
- Wednesday 07 December 2011 (17:00-18:30, room 13.14.0026): Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University) "Statistical Dependency Parsing - The State of the Art" (abstract)
- Thursday 08 December 2011 (09:30-10:10, Zernike room, Academy building): Sharon Goldwater (University of Edinburgh): From sounds to words: a Bayesian approach to modeling early language acquisition (abstract)
- Thursday 08 December 2011 (10:10-10:50, Zernike room, Academy building): Padraic Monaghan (Lancaster University): Evolved properties of language through language learning (abstract)
- Thursday 08 December 2011 (10:50-11:30, Zernike room, Academy building): Emmanuel Dupoux (LSCP, Paris): A computational approach to early language bootstrapping (abstract)