Language Technology Lab Seminars

Teaching Artificial Agents to Understand Language by Modelling Reward

Edward Grefenstette, Facebook AI Research.

Faculty of English, Room SR24.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

Understanding mechanisms of anxiety: combining experimental psychology and genomics

Thalia Eley (Kings College London).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Seeking cross-linguistic interaction in the phonetic and phonological development of bilingual French-speaking children

There will be a tea reception from 4pm.

Dr Margaret Kehoe (University of Geneva) .

Gr-06/7 (English Faculty Building).

Thursday 21 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Large-scale analyses of language variation and change in social media

Dong Nguyen, University of Edinburgh & Alan Turing Institute.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 22 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

High-dimensional sign tests for the direction of a skewed single-spiked distribution

Davy Paindaveine, Université Libre de Bruxelles.

MR12.

Friday 22 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

In search for the cognitive foundations of Euclidean geometry

Véronique Izard, Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, CNRS & Université Paris Descartes.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 22 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Researching LGBTQ+ Issues: Building Community

Charlotte Allen, Frank Frangeskou, Becky Moses, Lucian Stephenson.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS1.

Monday 25 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

THE POWER OF CATALYTIC CONVERSATIONS: An unexpected journey and response to the question 'How do we turn STEM into STEAM?

Carole Bent, Creative Catalyst, Advisor and Art Partner .

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS1.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Identifying the cognitive dimensions of learning problems in children who have been identified as struggling at school

Joni Holmes (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Indo-European Seminar

Early Latin to Neo-Latin: Festus and Scaliger

Tea served from 4.15

Anna Chahoud Trinity College, Dublin.

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

MEITS Multilingualism Seminars

Institutional multilingualism: theories, policies and practices of language and law in the EU

Javier Moreno-Rivero (PhD student, Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room G, Second Floor, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

MEITS Multilingualism Seminars

Challenging monolingual histories: Multilingual evidence from the Dutch-German borderlands in the long nineteenth century

Dr Andreas Krogull (MEITS postdoctoral research associate, University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room G, Second Floor, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

Chaucer Club

The neural fingerprints of a missing hand: from phantoms to artificial limbs

Tamar Makin (UCL).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Predictors of listening comprehension skills in bilingual children

There will be a tea reception from 4:30pm.

Prof Ludovica Serratrice (University of Reading).

GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 28 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning multi-domain dialogues

Paweł Budzianowski, CUED, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 01 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Analysis of Networks via the Sparse β-Model

Chenlei Leng, University of Warwick.

MR12.

Friday 01 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

From science to technology: the interaction between senses during the development and the creation of new rehabilitation devices.

Dr Monica Gori, Instituto Italiano di Techologia, Genoa, Italy.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 01 March 2019, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

An effect for bilingualism on ADHD trait levels in the general child population

Curtis Sharma (Cambridge Language Sciences, U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

Indo-European Seminar

A Roman ‘folk model’ of courage: animus and metaphor

Tea served from 4.15

Bill Short University of Exeter .

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 16:30-17:30

Arts and Creativities Research Group

How to see, measure and capture the arts experience

Frances Howard, Nottingham Trent University.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room 2S7.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 13:00-14:30

Chaucer Club

Cognitive training works: what are the mechanisms and why are so many experimental psychologists opposed?

Ian Robertson (Trinity College Dublin) .

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

TBC

There will be a tea reception from 4:30pm.

Dr Francesca Martina Branzi (University of Cambridge).

GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 07 March 2019, 18:00-19:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Raoul-Gabriel Urma, Kevin Lemagnen, Sahan Bulathwela, Cambridge Spark.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 08 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Kostas Zygalakis, University of Edinburgh.

MR12.

Friday 08 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Top-down vs. bottom-up? Effects of prediction and attention on sensory processing and perception

Heleen A. Slagter, PhD, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience VU University Amsterdam.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 08 March 2019, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The neural basis of time-extended semantic cognition: evidence from fMRI and TMS investigations

Francesca Branzi (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

North-eastern Neo-Aramaic: Endangered communities and languages in contact

Prof Eleanor Coghill, Uppsala University.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 17:15-18:15

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Disagreements in anaphoric interpretation

Massimo Poesio ( University of Essex).

Faculty of English, Room SR24.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

Far beyond the back of the brain

Peter Hagoort (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour) .

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Kanako Komiya, Ibaraki University, Japan.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 15 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Aaron Zhao, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 26 April 2019, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Heather Battey, Imperial College London.

MR12.

Friday 26 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Zohreh Shams, AI Group, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 03 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Ryan Cotterell, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 10 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Milan Vojnovic (LSE).

MR12.

Friday 10 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Julie Josse, École Polytechnique.

MR12.

Friday 10 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Second Language Education Group

How can usage-based SLA invigorate language education?

Professor Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University, Washington, USA .

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 13 May 2019, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Paradoxes of multilingualism in public policy in conjunction with the launching of Cambridge Masterclass Series on Multilingualism, Education and Language Policy

Professor Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University, Washington, USA.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Tuesday 14 May 2019, 10:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Karina Vold, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 17 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Harry van Zanten, University of Amsterdam.

MR12.

Friday 17 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Masoumeh Dashti, University of Sussex.

MR12.

Friday 24 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Roger Koenker, University College London.

MR12.

Friday 31 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Guy Emerson, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 07 June 2019, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Mouli Banerjee, University of Michigan.

MR12.

Friday 14 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Elchanan Mossel (MIT).

MR12.

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 16:00-17:00