Columns, Speeches, etc. -- John Nerbonne

Interviews with CLCG Researchers (in Dutch)

Speech

Non in dialectica complacuit Deo salvum facere populuum suum Presidential Address to the Association for Computational Linguistics, July 9, 2002.

Laudationes

A Laudatio on the occasion of presenting the first Scientific Achievement Award of the Association for Computational Linguistics to Prof. Aravind Joshi. July 8, 2002.

Ein wissenschaftlicher Wasserfall! Een afscheidswoord voor Werner Abraham, 9 Feb 2001 (in Dutch)

Een lastige buurman. Afscheidswoord voor Tjeerd de Graaf, 30 Jan 2004

Building the Intelligent Infrastructure Laudatio for Peter Wittenburg on the occasion of his Honorary Doctorate at the University of Tübingen, 8 Nov 2013.

In memoriam

Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen (1943-2013) In memoriam
Harry Gaylord (1947-2006) In memoriam

Appreciations

An address at Gisela Redeker's Valedictory workshop
The ‘cognitive’ in ‘cognitive linguistics’. An Entry in the “Dirktionary” for Dirk Geeraerts

ELSNews Columns

Computational Linguistics in Groningen

Overhead Transparencies for Invited Talk 23 April 2001 to CLIF, "Computational Linguistics in Flanders", together with Flemish Speech Researchers.

Language

Double Dutch: Language in the Low Lands (Powerpoint slides) Popular presentation given in the lecture series "Curious about the Dutch?" Oct 31, 2001.
John Nerbonne and Hermann Niebaum Challenges in Finding the Determinants of Dialect Variation Overhead sheets used at kickoff meeting for project Determinants of Dialect Variation, Jan. 9, 2004.

Unpublished (popular) talks, esp. in Computer-Mediated Communication (2000)

Computers, Communication and Groningen (PowerPoint slides) given at the kickoff meeting of the CMC project, Groningen, De Bonte Koe, Jan. 2000.
Language Technology and Consumer Contact (PowerPoint slides) given at the BSC Seminar "Consumenten Contact in 2005", Park Plaza, Amsterdam, 12 Oct. 2000.

Interviews

Interview in DIXIT, 11/2013 (in Dutch), the views of an expat scientiest working in the Netherlands.
Interview in Data and Research, 3/2009 (in Dutch), appearing with photo Text only avail. here.
Interview (in Dutch) with Richard Klunder of Radio Noord (local Groningen station) on dialect analysis via computer (Sept. 2005)
Interview in BCN Nieuws in June, 2003 (in Dutch)
Interview on answering email automatically, in Management Team March, 2001 (in Dutch). Gosse Bouma maintains an online demo about the Email classification project in cooperation with BSC.
Interview originally in TA! Spring, 1993

Remarks in the press

Informatik als Geisteswissenschaft (in Deutsch) -- A Summary of the First Conference of Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (DHd), where my plenary (with the title "Informatik als Geisteswissenschaft") is mentioned, The article appeared in the Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung (FAZ), Apr.2, 2014.
Rotkäppchen 2.0. (on developments in Digital Humanities). Also available in English From the Humboldt Kosmos 102, 2014, the magazine of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Why speech recognition will always be stupid by David Wheeler, CNN, Aug. 20, 2013. For the record: the title was the author's, but he asked me why it was hard.

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