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CILR Monday Mailing: talks in language and linguistics

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The Monday Mailing is a weekly email listing details of events over the next month which are relevant to those interested in language and linguistics. It aims to co-ordinate the dissemination of information about the various events relating to language research taking place throughout the University.

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If you have a question about this list, please contact: George Walkden. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser.

15 upcoming talks and 2306 talks in the archive.

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

The UK AI Safety Institute

UserNitarshan Rajkumar (University of Cambridge & UK AI Safety Institute).

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

ClockTuesday 30 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseSS03, William Gates Building. .

ClockFriday 26 April 2024, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Understanding Comparative Questions and Retrieving Argumentative Answers

UserAlexander Bondarenko, University of Leipzig .

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 08 March 2024, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

POSTPONED

POSTPONED. Sorry for inconvenience.

UserProf. Tom Chittenden (BioAI Health & QMUL).

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

ClockTuesday 05 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Scaling Multilingual Generation for Low-Resource Languages

UserPriyanka Agrawal, Google Deepmind.

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 16 February 2024, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Faster Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding with Confidence-based Pruning

UserJulius Cheng (University of Cambridge).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 19 January 2024, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Fairness Evaluation in Generative NLP

UserSeraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant (Cohere).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 01 December 2023, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Efficiency by Construction

UserFermin Moscoso del Prado Martin (University of Cambridge).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 24 November 2023, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Deep screening of RNA, XNA and protein interactions

https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/83721191406?pwd=V0xkY0Vvb3czWUJkR0xIZC9qMnM0QT09

UserPhilipp Holliger (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology).

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

ClockTuesday 21 November 2023, 17:00-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

RetroBridge: Modeling Retrosynthesis with Markov Bridges

This talk is online only: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92041617729

UserArne Schneuing & Ilia Igashov (EPFL).

HouseZoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92041617729.

ClockTuesday 14 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Numerical Reasoning in Natural Language Processing

UserNafise Moosavi (University of Sheffield).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 10 November 2023, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Neural mechanisms of domain-general inhibitory control

UserJan Wessel (U. of Iowa) (Joint Chaucer-Zangwill talk) .

HouseMRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 09 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Natural Language Processing for Text-to-Speech Synthesis

UserGleb Mazovetskiy (Google).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 27 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

Foundation AI

Revolutionizing Biosensing Technologies: Plug and Play Devices in Medical and Agricultural Diagnostics

UserMuhammad J. A. Shiddiky, Rural Health Research Institute (RHRI), Charles Sturt University, Orange NSW 2800.

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

ClockTuesday 24 October 2023, 17:00-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

AbDiffuser: Full-Atom Generation of In Vitro Functioning Antibodies

Notice that this talk is online only: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92041617729 Pietro Lio and Chaitanya Joshi will introduce the speakers

UserKarolis Martinkus & Andreas Loukas (Prescient Design, Genentech, Roche).

HouseZoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92041617729.

ClockTuesday 24 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Fighting Bad Information with AI

UserDavid Corney (Full Fact).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 13 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Does Syntax Still Matter in the World of LLMs?

UserMiloš Stanojević (DeepMind).

HouseComputer Laboratory, room SS03.

ClockFriday 06 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Protein generation and fitness optimization

https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94094286505?pwd=T2V3MFVSQ1ZKTFFyYlFueHlzTE83Zz09

UserJason Yim, EECS, MIT.

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building and Zoom.

ClockTuesday 20 June 2023, 17:00-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Interpretable Neural-Symbolic Concept Reasoning

Note this is on zoom only! Note a change of date! Note a new zoom link!

UserPietro Barbiero (University of Cambridge).

Housezoom only!.

ClockTuesday 20 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Knowledge Issues and Language Models

UserJames Thorne (KAIST).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 16 June 2023, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Investigating Reasons for Disagreement in Natural Language Inference

UserMarie-Catherine de Marneffe (FNRS – UCLouvain – The Ohio State University).

HouseComputer Lab, FW26.

ClockFriday 09 June 2023, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Untangling genome assembly graphs with graph neural networks

https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93934749405?pwd=M0ZERUZleklON01vZlpXbzhqTld0Zz09. ; ID riunione: 939 3474 9405 Passcode: 374750

UserLovro Vrcek, Genome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR.

HouseSeminar Room FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

ClockWednesday 07 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Information Spreading on Networks

NOTE A CHANGE OF ROOM DUE TO EXAMS. NOW SS03

UserCharlotte Out.

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockTuesday 06 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Fighting Misinformation in Science Communication with NLP

UserDustin Wright (University of Copenhagen).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 02 June 2023, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Interpretable Multi-hop Question Answering

UserZhenyun Deng (University of Cambridge).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 26 May 2023, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Reality Check: NLP in the era of Large Language Models

UserVered Shwartz (University of British Columbia).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 12 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Improving Model Robustness for Natural Language Inference

UserJoe Stacey (Imperial College London).

HouseComputer Lab, FW26.

ClockFriday 28 April 2023, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Modular and Compositional Transfer Learning

UserJonas Pfeiffer (Google Research).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 24 February 2023, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Narrative Summarization from Multiple Views

UserPinelopi Papalampidi (DeepMind).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 17 February 2023, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Relative representations enable zero-shot latent space communication

Organized by Donato Crisostomi and Pietro Barbiero

UserLuca Moschella, Sapienza University of Rome.

HouseLecture Theatre 2.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2023, 14:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Processing Multiword Expressions for Grammatical Error Correction

UserShiva Taslimipoor (University of Cambridge).

HouseComputer Laboratory, Room FW09.

ClockFriday 03 February 2023, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

GenBench -- State-of-the-art generalisation research in NLP

UserDieuwke Hupkes (Facebook AI Research, ELLIS).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 27 January 2023, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Rethinking the role of tokenization in the NLP pipeline

UserKris Cao (DeepMind).

HouseComputer Lab, FW26.

ClockFriday 02 December 2022, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

A Distance Function based Cascaded Neural Network for accurate Polyps Segmentation and Classification

https://zoom.us/j/99166955895?pwd=SzI0M3pMVEkvNmw3Q0dqNDVRalZvdz09

User Yuanhong Jiang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

HouseLecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 01 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Approximate Equivariance SO(3) Needlet Convolution

https://zoom.us/j/99166955895?pwd=SzI0M3pMVEkvNmw3Q0dqNDVRalZvdz09

UserKai Yi, University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney.

HouseLecture Theatre 2.

ClockWednesday 30 November 2022, 17:00-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Global Explainability of GNNs via Logic Combination of Learned Concepts

https://zoom.us/j/99166955895?pwd=SzI0M3pMVEkvNmw3Q0dqNDVRalZvdz09

UserSteve Azzolin.

HouseOnline (Zoom).

ClockFriday 25 November 2022, 17:00-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

The Interpretability of Graph Neural Networks

Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/99166955895?pwd=SzI0M3pMVEkvNmw3Q0dqNDVRalZvdz09

UserHan Xuanyuan, Dept of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW11 + zoom.

ClockFriday 25 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

CANCELLED

UserDieuwke Hupkes (Facebook AI Research, ELLIS).

HouseComputer Lab, TBD.

ClockFriday 25 November 2022, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Learning Feynman Diagrams using Graph Neural Networks

https://zoom.us/j/99166955895?pwd=SzI0M3pMVEkvNmw3Q0dqNDVRalZvdz09

UserHarrison Mitchell, dept of Physics Cambridge.

Houselecture theatre 2 dept of computer science and zoom.

ClockThursday 24 November 2022, 17:00-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Learning Multi-Scene Absolute Pose Regression with Transformers

UserYoli Shavit, Huawei TRC and Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 22 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Towards Trustworthy Natural Language Processing

UserJasmijn Bastings (Google Brain).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 18 November 2022, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Decoding is deciding under uncertainty — the case of NMT

UserBryan Eikema (University of Amsterdam).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 11 November 2022, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

NLP for Science: Advances and Challenges

UserTom Hope (Allen Institute for AI, Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

HouseComputer Lab, FW11.

ClockMonday 07 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Efficient Structured Prediction on Long Texts

UserMrinmaya Sachan (ETH Zurich).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 28 October 2022, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

ACMP: Allen-Cahn Message Passing with Attractive and Repulsive Forces for Graph Neural Networks

https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99166955895?pwd=SzI0M3pMVEkvNmw3Q0dqNDVRalZvdz09

UserYu Guang Wang.

HouseLecture Theatre 2.

ClockTuesday 25 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

A study of recent techniques to estimate the difficulty of exam questions from text

UserLuca Benedetto (University of Cambridge).

HouseFW09.

ClockFriday 21 October 2022, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

The Aston Forensic Linguistic Databank (FoLD)

UserMartyn Petyko and Daniela Schneevogt (Aston University).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 07 October 2022, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Tidying up working memory

UserJarrod Lewis-Peacock (University of Texas at Austin).

HouseMRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 06 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Cancelled! Sorry for inconvenience.

UserDanielle Belgrave, DeepMind.

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 04 October 2022, 13:15-14:15

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Learning Backward Compatible Embeddings

hybrid event (https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92564083880?pwd=Wk5DVWpUc2lIN0krMFU5azEwUGpEUT09)

UserWeihua Hu, Stanford University and Google.

HouseLecture Theatre 2 (https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92564083880?pwd=Wk5DVWpUc2lIN0krMFU5azEwUGpEUT09).

ClockFriday 02 September 2022, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Pitfalls with ablation in neural network architectures

UserChristina Lioma (University of Copenhagen).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 17 June 2022, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Neural Sequence Models for Mathematical Reasoning

RESCHEDULED, NOTE THE UNUSUAL TIME

UserYuhuai(Tony) Wu, Stanford University & Google.

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 14 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

(Modeling) Morality? On Machine Learning and Phrenology

UserZeerak Talat (Digital Democracies Institute, Simon Fraser University).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockMonday 13 June 2022, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

An aperitivo of efforts against harming online contents: propaganda, hate speech, spam

UserAlberto Barrón-Cedeño (University of Bologna).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 10 June 2022, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Measuring Causal Effects of Data Statistics on Language Model Predictions

UserYanai Elazar (Bar-Ilan University).

HouseComputer Lab, FW26.

ClockWednesday 01 June 2022, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Ceylon Portuguese: Survival Against All Odds

UserProfessor Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya (Visiting Fellow, Lucy Cavendish College and Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies School of Advanced Study, University of London).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 19 May 2022, 17:00-17:50

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Lifted Relational Neural Networks

UserGustav Šir, Czech Technical University in Prague.

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 17 May 2022, 13:15-14:15

NLIP Seminar Series

Neuro-Symbolic Deep Natural Language Understanding

UserLili Mou (University of Alberta).

HouseComputer Lab, FW26.

ClockTuesday 17 May 2022, 12:00-13:00

Second Language Education Group

Participative multilingual identity education: Theory, evidence and impact of the ‘We Are Multilingual’ Campaign

UserMEITS WAM Project Team, University of Cambridge, Linda Fisher, Michael Evans, Karen Forbes, Angela Gayton (Glasgow), Yongcan Liu, Dee Rutgers (Sheffield Hallam).

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUqd-mtqT0rE9Bsoi8plgq-jMoq1ExWFPv4.

ClockMonday 16 May 2022, 16:00-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Diagnosing AI Explanation Methods with Folk Concepts of Behavior

UserAlon Jacovi (Bar-Ilan University).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 06 May 2022, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

On the Two-fold Role of Logic Constraints in Deep Learning

https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99805544705?pwd=cXR6MTlaeXd6VmEreVdQSmFRblBtUT09

UserDr Gabriele Ciravegna, Inria – Université Côte d'Azur.

HouseZoom + presence (lecture theatre 2) .

ClockFriday 29 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

[Postponed to ET] 'Lying, bullshit and Desinformatsiya'

To register for the talk, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvduuuqTkpHN2xDSsRYUvE0ePfHgq0xzc7. You will immediately be provided with a link to the talk upon registering. Please do not share these links with third parties.

UserChristopher Heffer (Cardiff University).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 24 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Multilingual Autoregressive Entity Linking

UserNicola De Cao (University of Amsterdam, Huggingface).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 18 March 2022, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Machine learning as an assay for high-dimensional biology

UserSara Mostafavi, University of Washington, USA.

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 15 March 2022, 13:15-14:15

NLIP Seminar Series

Hugging Face: a hub for the whole ML community to collaborate

UserNate Raw and Ömer Faruk Özdemir (HuggingFace).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 11 March 2022, 12:00-14:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

'When can you passivize causatives? A phase-based analysis'

To register for the talk, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYud-murjwjEt3yZ3AXJkcFOOK85zwVBmB3. You will immediately be provided with a link to the talk upon registering. Please do not share these links with third parties.

UserMichelle Sheehan (Newcastle University).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 10 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Using NLP and graph theory to capture speech abnormalities in psychosis

UserCaroline Nettekoven (University of Cambridge).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 04 March 2022, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning from Past: Bringing Planning Back to Neural Generators

UserShashi Narayan (Google Research).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 25 February 2022, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Living in Kriolu, Learning in Portuguese: language ideologies and language education in Cape Verde

To register for this talk, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJElceCqqj8rHNCNkScsQHH_2tNV69WzD3ga

UserDr Nicola Bermingham, University of Liverpool.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 24 February 2022, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

[POSTPONED] Parametric vs Nonparametric Knowledge, and what we can learn from Knowledge Bases

UserSebastian Riedel (Facebook AI Research and UCL).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 18 February 2022, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

V2, V3, and the left periphery of Finnish and Estonian

To register for this talk, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0kcu2rrTMvE9FQR6ffKaOVTIUt5w4zGx8V. You will receive a link immediately after signing up.

UserAnders Holmberg (Newcastle University), Heete Sahkai (Institute of the Estonian Language), and Anne Tamm (Károli Gáspár University).

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 16 February 2022, 16:30-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Brain charts for the human lifespan

UserRichard Bethlehem, Autism Research Centre & Brain Mapping Unit, University of Cambridge.

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 01 February 2022, 13:15-14:15

NLIP Seminar Series

Towards Out-of-distribution generalization in NLP

UserProf. He He (New York Univeristy).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 28 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Advancing mathematics by guiding human intuition with AI

UserAlex Davies and Petar Velickovic (DeepMind).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 25 January 2022, 13:15-14:15

NLIP Seminar Series

Expectations vs. Reality: Lessons learned from Working on Toxic Content Detection in NLP

UserNedjma Ousidhoum (University of Cambridge).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 21 January 2022, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

CANCELLED

UserLotty Brand (University of Sheffield) .

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 03 December 2021, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Sparse Latent Structure with Overlapping Constraints

UserVlad Niculae (University of Amsterdam).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 26 November 2021, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Learning on Graphs with Missing Node Features

UserEmanuele Rossi, Twitter & Imperial College.

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 23 November 2021, 13:15-14:15

NLIP Seminar Series

Analyzing and Summarizing Movies using Turning Points

UserFrank Keller (University of Edinburgh).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 19 November 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The Role of Root Semantics in Determining Argument Alternations

To register for this talk, please use this link: https://forms.gle/E5rAVyaoMM4BbxKJ6

UserDr. John Beavers (University of Texas).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 18 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Revitalising Jèrriais: The Norman Language of Jersey

Please register for this webinar at: https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/centres/celc/conference-series

UserL'Office du Jèrriais.

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 16 November 2021, 17:00-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Weisfeiler and Lehman Go Cellular: CW Networks

UserCristian Bodnar (University of Cambridge) and Fabrizio Frasca (Imperial College, Twitter).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 16 November 2021, 13:15-14:15

NLIP Seminar Series

How language understanding unfolds in minds and machines

UserRoger Levy (MIT).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 12 November 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Ideophone patterns across Kiranti languages (Eastern Nepal),

Please register for this talk at https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/centres/celc/conference-series

UserDr Aimée Lahaussois (Université Paris 7).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 09 November 2021, 16:30-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Integrating Human Cognition with Natural Language Processing

UserYevgeni Berzak (Technion).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 05 November 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Phonotactics and rules interacting in change: understanding Mid-Scots θ-Debuccalisation and Late Middle English Syncope

To register for this link, please follow this link: https://forms.gle/5GCRb7HT8RUjJbvQA

UserPatrick Honeybone (University of Edinburgh).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 04 November 2021, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Toward Broad and Deep Language Understanding for Intelligent Systems

UserMarjorie McShane (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 22 October 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Empirical Results on Morphological Convergence in English

UserDr. Péter Rácz (Central European University, Budapest University of Technology, University of Canterbury)..

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 21 October 2021, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Exploring Feedback Comment Generation for Language Learners

UserRyo Nagata (Konan University).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 15 October 2021, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Unlocking Deep Learning for Graphs

UserDominique Beaini, Valence Discovery, MILA, Canada.

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 15 June 2021, 13:15-14:15

NLIP Seminar Series

Challenges in evaluating natural language generation systems

Note unusual time

UserMohit Iyyer (University of Massachusetts Amherst).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 11 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

How (not) to do (areal) phonological typology

Please register by noon on the day of the talk https://forms.gle/vCtCxURPtUbranv57

UserPavel Iosad (University of Edinburgh).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 10 June 2021, 17:30-19:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Beyond Facts: The Problem of Framing in Assessing What is True

Note unusual time

UserPhilip Resnik (University of Maryland).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 04 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Interpretability in NLP: Moving Beyond Vision

Note unusual time

UserShuoyang Ding (Johns Hopkins University).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 28 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Typological Feature Prediction and Blinding for Cross-Lingual NLP

UserJohannes Bjerva (Aalborg University).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 21 May 2021, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Incorporating Structure into NLP Models with Graph Neural Networks

User Michael Schlichtkrull (University of Cambridge).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 14 May 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Ecological links between L2 learning and L1 change

Please register by noon on the day of the talk https://forms.gle/XdoC5YnNfbS5USeb7

UserAntonella Sorace (University of Edinburgh).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 13 May 2021, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Adaptation and Control in Enterprise Language Technology

UserRyan McDonald (ASAPP).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 07 May 2021, 12:00-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Cross domain similarities and intra-person changes

UserMaria Liakata (University of Warwick).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 30 April 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Language contact in syntax: The view from Romanian

Please register by noon on the day of the talk https://forms.gle/k4VN9jrfoq9z2FC9A

UserAdnana Boioc Apintei, Adina Dragomirescu, Alexandru Nicolae (Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti Institute of Linguistics & University of Bucharest).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 29 April 2021, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title TBD

UserRyan McDonald (Google).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 19 March 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Internal arguments disguised as external arguments: Lessons from an active alignment system

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/ofRcLr4aBxyZh7yP6

UserDr Matthew Tyler (University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 11 March 2021, 16:45-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Representation Learning for Text Retrieval: Learning and Pretraining Strategies for Dense Retrieval

Unusual date and time

UserChenyan Xiong (Microsoft Research).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockThursday 11 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title TBD

Note unusual time

UserChenyan Xiong (Microsoft Research AI).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockThursday 11 March 2021, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

[RESCHEDULED] Typological Feature Prediction and Blinding for Cross-Lingual NLP

RESCHEDULED TBD

UserJohannes Bjerva (Aalborg University).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 05 March 2021, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Papers with Code and the automatic extraction of results from papers

UserRobert Stojnic (Facebook / Papers with Code).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 26 February 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The role of language professionals in minority language revitalisation: Variation in rhotic production

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/bcgdZgxu4PbNjAqn6

UserDr Claire Nance (Lancaster University).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 25 February 2021, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title TBD

UserMariam Redi (Wikimedia).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 19 February 2021, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

The Science of Knowledge Equity - Research at Wikimedia

UserMiriam Redi, Diego Saez (Wikimedia Foundation).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 19 February 2021, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Neural ODE Processes

UserCris Bodnar, Alex Norcliffe, Ben Day, Jacob Moss .

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 16 February 2021, 13:15-14:15

NLIP Seminar Series

Detecting the "Fake News" Before It Was Even Written, Media Literacy, and Flattening the Curve of the COVID-19 Infodemic

UserPreslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), HBKU).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 12 February 2021, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

A Graph-Based Framework for Structured Prediction Tasks in Sanskrit

Note unusual time

UserAmrith Krishna (University of Cambridge).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 05 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Learning under model misspecification

UserAndrés R. Masegosa, Universidad de Almería (Spain).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 02 February 2021, 13:15-14:15

Second Language Education Group

Raising multilingual autistic children: Challenges and opportunities

UserDr. Jenny Gibson and Dr. Napoleon Katsos, University of Cambridge.

HouseOn-line.

ClockMonday 01 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning with Graphs in Natural Language Generation and Relation Extraction

UserZhijiang Guo (University of Cambridge).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 29 January 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Heritage grammars and linguistic complexity: A view from grammatical gender

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/hhmex2pjepqHeZpr6

UserProfessor Terje Lohndal (NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 28 January 2021, 16:30-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Latent Action Space for Offline Reinforcement Learning

UserWenxuan Zhou, Carnegie Mellon University (USA).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 26 January 2021, 13:15-14:15

NLIP Seminar Series

Revisiting and re-evaluating rumour stance classification

UserCarolina Scarton (University of Sheffield).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 22 January 2021, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Compositional Neural Meaning Representation Parsing

UserWeiwei Sun (University of Cambridge).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 04 December 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Focus Association with ONLY

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/By3XNQtaYLUksF1S9

UserDr Ksenia Zanon (Slavonic Section MMLL, University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 03 December 2020, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Working Memory 2.0

UserEarl Miller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

HouseZoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

ClockThursday 03 December 2020, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Improving Speech Translation with Linguistically-Informed Representations

UserElizabeth Salesky (Johns Hopkins University).

HouseZoom.

ClockFriday 27 November 2020, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

The interpersonal function of emotional expressions

UserJulie Grezes (Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitive & Computationnelles).

HouseZoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

ClockThursday 26 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Graph Neural Networks for Biomedical Data

Note the change of date and time. This seminar is part of the Wednesday seminar series too.

UserMarinka Zitnik, Harvard University.

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 25 November 2020, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Bilingual Brains

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/bTVzfMTKSVwyaJRHA

UserProfessor Brendan Weekes (University of Hong Kong, HKU).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 19 November 2020, 16:30-18:00

Second Language Education Group

English Medium Education (EME) in Basic and Higher Education: Lessons learned from across the globe

UserMark Levy, John Simpson, Ann Veitch (British Council).

HouseOn-line.

ClockMonday 16 November 2020, 16:00-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Predicting Text Readability and Reading Comprehension from Reading Interactions

UserSian Gooding (University of Cambridge).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 13 November 2020, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

How far have we come in giving our NLU systems common sense?

Note time change

UserNasrin Mostafazadeh (Verneek).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 06 November 2020, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Five Sources of Biases and Ethical Issues in NLP, and What to Do about Them

UserDirk Hovy (Bocconi University).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 23 October 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Revisiting contact-induced change in creole languages

Please pre-register for this talk by noon on Oct 22nd https://forms.gle/4QF4qiepxGDVEWky6

UserDr Oliver Mayeux (University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 22 October 2020, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

What are the Goals of Distributional Semantics?

UserGuy Emerson (University of Cambridge).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 16 October 2020, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Flexible redistribution in the language network

UserDr. Gesa Hartwigsen (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences).

HouseZoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

ClockThursday 15 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Polysemy: Pragmatics and Linguistic Conventions

Please pre-register for this event by noon on Thursday October 8th : https://forms.gle/QsDW2EdTzjNC2d6i7

UserProfessor Robyn Carston, UCL.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 08 October 2020, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Towards explainable fact checking

UserIsabelle Augenstein (University of Copenhagen).

Househttps://meet.google.com/xkv-cako-arr.

ClockFriday 19 June 2020, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Achieving Verified Robustness to Adversarial NLP Inputs

Note later start

UserJohannes Welbl (UCL).

Househttps://meet.google.com/tgv-vods-pdk.

ClockFriday 12 June 2020, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

[Online talk] - Peircean Semiotics, Archaeology, and the Origin of Human Language: Was Homo erectus the first talking human?

Please SIGN UP for the event (deadline Thursday, 11th of June, 12pm BST): https://cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cJeqCnIOH9BcVTv -- You will receive an attendance link on Thursday before the talk.

UserProf Daniel Everett (Bentley University).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 11 June 2020, 15:00-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Methodological advances in creating time sensitive sensors from language and heterogeneous user generated content

Rescheduled

UserMaria Liakata (Queen Mary University of London, University of Warwick, Alan Turing Institute).

Househttps://meet.google.com/awc-wvbh-azc.

ClockFriday 29 May 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - TBC

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

UserProf Brendan Weekes (University of Hong Kong).

HouseTBC.

ClockThursday 28 May 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

[Online talk] - The Syntax of Verbs: Language Typology, Language Change and a little bit of Language Acquisition

Please SIGN UP for the event following the link: https://cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_25lZ6rde33jG62h -- You will receive an attendance link on Thursday before the talk.

UserProf Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 28 May 2020, 16:30-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Graph Representation Learning under Uncertainty (WIP)

UserCatalina Cangea and Ben Day (University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline on Teams.

ClockTuesday 26 May 2020, 13:15-14:15

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

[Online talk] - Linguists who use probabilistic models love them: An introduction to Functional Distributional Semantics

Please sign up via the link in order to receive an attendance link on Thursday before the talk: https://cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_50YGCrYnFdptyU5

UserDr Guy Emerson (Dept. of Computer Sciences and Technology, University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 07 May 2020, 17:00-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Reducing gender bias in neural machine translation as a domain adaptation problem

Online Seminar

UserDanielle Saunders (University of Cambridge).

Househttps://meet.google.com/hhk-hmiz-mpt.

ClockFriday 01 May 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - Title: How Language Began: A Peircean Approach to Language Evolution

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

UserProf Daniel Everett (Bentley University).

HouseEnglish Faculty Building, second floor, SR24.

ClockThursday 02 April 2020, 16:30-18:00

Indo-European Seminar

Left dislocation

tea served from 4.15

UserHilla Halla-aho (Helsinki).

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2020, 16:30-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Evaluating Deep Generative Models on Out-of-Distribution Inputs

UserEric Nalisnick (University of Cambridge).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 06 March 2020, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning Tensors and Random Matrix Theory

UserMehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (UCL).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 28 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Indo-European Seminar

Causatives in Sanskrit

tea served from 4.15

UserAntonia Ruppel (Oxford).

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 19 February 2020, 16:30-17:30

Second Language Education Group

The Role of Metalinguistic Awareness in Multilingual Learning and Teaching

Refreshments available from 4.30pm

UserProfessor Ulrike Jessner-Schmid, University of Innsbruck.

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

ClockMonday 17 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Indo-European Seminar

The rise of vowel writing and the transmission of writing within and beyond Afroasiatic

tea served from 4.15

UserDaniel Harbour (Queen Mary) .

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 12 February 2020, 16:30-17:30

Second Language Education Group

Linguistic Justice in Policy and Practice

ALL WELCOME, Drinks reception from 6.30pm

UserEmeritus Professor Robert Phillipson, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark..

HouseDonald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room 1S3.

ClockTuesday 11 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Zero-shot Language Learning through Bayesian Neural Models

UserEdoardo Maria Ponti (University of Cambridge).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 07 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Second Language Education Group

Micro-level Language Policy and Planning: Levels, Agency and Structure (Cambridge Masterclass in Multilingualism, Education and Language Policy 2019-2020)

Open to staff and students of Cambridge University. Booking is required and please contact Yongcan Liu ( yl258@cam.ac.uk)

UserProfessor Anthony J. Liddicoat, University of Warwick.

House Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room GS5.

ClockThursday 30 January 2020, 14:00-16:00

Indo-European Seminar

'What would Catullus do? Epigraphic evidence for manuscript spelling

tea served from 4.15

UserNicholas Zair, Cambridge.

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 29 January 2020, 16:30-17:30

Second Language Education Group

Developing a Text Editor to Help Writers with Academic English Collocations

Refreshments available from 4.30pm

UserDr. Ana Frankenberg-Garcia, Centre of Translation Studies, University of Surrey.

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

ClockMonday 27 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Can we optimise fashion ecommerce using NLG?

Note: earlier time of 11am

UserRory Waite (Emotif.ai).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 17 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Long Form Question Answering

UserAngela Fan (Facebook).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 06 December 2019, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Unsupervised cross-lingual representation learning

Room Change: LT1

UserSebastian Ruder (DeepMind).

HouseLT1, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 22 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Chemistry of the adaptive mind: on dopamine and mental work

UserRoshan Cools (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour).

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

ClockThursday 21 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

CANCELLED Probabilistic models of graphs for meaning representations

Extra talk: note unusual day and time

UserAdam Lopez (University of Edinburgh).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockTuesday 19 November 2019, 10:00-11:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Ethical considerations for responsible design

Room Change: LT1

UserShauna Concannon (University of Cambridge).

HouseLT1, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 15 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Sociolinguistic Vulnerability: Disaster Linguicism and Crisis Translation

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

UserProf. Federico Federici (University College London).

HouseGR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 14 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Making circles out of lines: A view of the evolving relationship between academia and language communities

UserEbany Dohle (SOAS, University of London) & Maria-Olimpia Squillaci (University of Naples "L'Orientale").

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Automatic Analysis of Affect and Personality Analysis in Multiperson Settings

UserHatice Gunes (University of Cambridge).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 25 October 2019, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Multimodal natural language processing: when text is not enough

UserLucia Specia (Imperial College London).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 18 October 2019, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

The perceptual prediction paradox

UserClare Press (U. of London, Dept of Psychology Sciences).

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

ClockThursday 17 October 2019, 15:30-17:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

A human-oriented term rewriting system

UserEd Ayers (University of Cambridge).

HouseFC22.

ClockMonday 23 September 2019, 13:00-14:00

Second Language Education Group

Promoting multilingual literacy and reader identity:Global Storybooks and open technology

UserBonny Norton , FRSC, Professor and University Scholar , Department of Language & Literacy Education, UBC, Canada.

HouseMurray Edwards College, Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 13 September 2019, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Natural Language Generation in the Wild

UserDaniel Beck, University of Melbourne.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 05 July 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Bilingualism in the community: Code-switching and grammars in contact

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

UserCatherine Travis (The Australian National University).

HouseGR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

ClockWednesday 19 June 2019, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

An Operation Sequence Model for Explainable Neural Machine Translation

UserFelix Stahlberg, CUED, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 14 June 2019, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Towards secure and efficient DNNs

UserAaron Zhao, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 31 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Out in the Field with the Remaining Speakers of Neo-Aramaic in Northern Iraq

UserDr Paul Noorlander (University of Cambridge), Dorota Molin (University of Cambridge).

HouseFaculty of English, Room SR24.

ClockTuesday 28 May 2019, 17:30-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Mitigating Gender Bias in Morphologically Rich Languages

UserRyan Cotterell, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 24 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

AI Extenders: The Ethical and Societal Implications of Humans Cognitively Extended by AI

UserKarina Vold & José Hernández-Orallo, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

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

Please book with Ann Waterman on aw244@cam.ac.uk if you would like to attend

UserProfessor Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University, Washington, USA.

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

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

Second Language Education Group

How can usage-based SLA invigorate language education?

in conjunction of the launching Cambridge Annual Lecture on Second Language Learning and Teaching

User Professor Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University, Washington, USA .

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

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Factorising AMR generation through syntax

UserKris Cao, DeepMind.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Languages* in Formal Reasoning: Accessibility vs. Formality

UserZohreh Shams, AI Group, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Chaucer Club

Reinforcement learning in AI systems and in the brain

UserMatt Botvinick (DeepMind and Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London).

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

ClockThursday 02 May 2019, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Word Sense Disambiguation and Other Systems in Japanese

UserKanako Komiya, Ibaraki University, Japan.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Chaucer Club

Far beyond the back of the brain

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

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

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

NLIP Seminar Series

K.A.T.E.: Scaling personalised tech education for professionals

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

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

TBC

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

User Dr Francesca Martina Branzi (University of Cambridge).

HouseGR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

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

Indo-European Seminar

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

Tea served from 4.15

UserBill Short University of Exeter .

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning multi-domain dialogues

UserPaweł Budzianowski, CUED, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Predictors of listening comprehension skills in bilingual children

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

UserProf Ludovica Serratrice (University of Reading).

HouseGR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

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

Indo-European Seminar

Early Latin to Neo-Latin: Festus and Scaliger

Tea served from 4.15

UserAnna Chahoud Trinity College, Dublin.

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

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

UserDong Nguyen, University of Edinburgh & Alan Turing Institute.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Dilated DenseNets for Relational Reasoning

UserAgnieszka Slowik (University of Cambridge).

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockTuesday 19 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Understanding Source Code using Natural Language and Graph Neural Networks

UserMiltos Allamanis, Microsoft Research.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 15 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Second Language Education Group

The Listening Zones of NGOs: Languages and cultural knowledge in development programmes

There will be a drinks reception after the seminar

UserProfessor Hilary Footitt, University of Reading.

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

ClockMonday 11 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning to navigate without a map (but with instructions)

UserPiotr Mirowski, DeepMind.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 08 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

French Linguistics Research Seminars

What can endangered creoles tell us about language change? Three centuries of Louisiana Creole

This talk is co-hosted by the Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

UserOliver Mayeux *Cambridge).

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2019, 18:30-19:30

Indo-European Seminar

Italic religious dedications: between local traditions and Graeco-Roman influences

Tea served from 4.15

UserMaria José Estaran University of Zaragoza.

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Topic-Aware Convolutional Neural Networks for Extreme Summarization

UserShashi Narayan, University of Edinburgh / Google.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 01 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Indo-European Seminar

1st Reading seminar: Harm Pinkster’s Oxford Latin Syntax

Tea served from 4.15

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

Second Language Education Group

Creativity in the languages classroom: Learners' responses to literary text

UserDr.Linda Fisher, University of Cambridge , Professor Suzanne Graham, Reading University.

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

ClockMonday 28 January 2019, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

**CANCELLED** Probabilistic Typology: Deep Generative Models of Vowel Inventories

UserRyan Cotterell, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 25 January 2019, 12:00-13:00

Indo-European Seminar

Hieroglyphic Luwian masterclass

Tea served from 4.15

UserWillemijn Waal, Leiden.

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Graph Neural Networks for Knowledge Base Question Answering

Room changed

UserDaniil Sorokin, Technische Universität Darmstadt.

HouseFW11, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 30 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

A Bayesian approach to internal models

UserMate Lengyel (Dept of Engineering, U. of Cambridge).

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

ClockThursday 22 November 2018, 15:30-17:00

Indo-European Seminar

The decline of infinitival complementation in Ancient Greek. A reconsideration

Tea served from 4.15

UserKlaas Bentein, Ghent.

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Second Language Education Group

EMI in Francophone Cameroon: What can we learn from victims of English?

There will be a drinks reception after the seminar

UserDr. Harry Kuchah Kuchah, University of Leeds.

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

ClockMonday 19 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

The Ethics of Artificially Intelligent Communications Technology

Room changed

UserMarcus Tomalin, CUED, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW11, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 16 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Timing in dyslexia: Language, reading and writing

UserProfessor Maria Teresa Guasti (University of Milano-Bicocca).

HouseGR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 15 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Timing in dyslexia: Language, reading and writing

UserProfessor Maria Teresa Guasti (University of Milano-Bicocca).

HouseGR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 15 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Knowledge Representation and Extraction at Scale

UserChristos Christodoulopoulos, Amazon.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 09 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Second Language Education Group

Pardon my French! Exploring the myths and realities of Second Language Education in Canada

UserDr Shawn Bullock, University of Cambridge, Dr Cecile Sabatier, Simon Fraser University.

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

ClockMonday 05 November 2018, 17:30-19:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Deep learning for automatically assessing the pronunciation of non-native English speakers

UserKostas Kyriakopoulos, CUED, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 26 October 2018, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning, Representing, and Understanding Language

UserAida Nematzadeh, DeepMind.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 19 October 2018, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Some lessons learned in Multimodal Representations and Transfer

UserPranava Madhyastha, Imperial College London.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 12 October 2018, 12:00-13:00

Indo-European Seminar

Introduction to the term’s reading seminar on A. Willi Origins of the Greek Verb

Tea served from 4.15

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2018, 16:30-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Imitation learning, zero-shot learning and automated fact checking

UserAndreas Vlachos, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 05 October 2018, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning hierarchical structure: strong learning of PCFGs

UserAlexander Clark, King's College London.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 01 June 2018, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

NAACL practice talks

UserSimon Baker (LTL) & Marek Rei (NLIP), University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 25 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Elfdalian, a divergent Nordic dialect now and throughout the ages

UserGuus Kroonen, University of Copenhagen/Leiden University.

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-04.

ClockWednesday 16 May 2018, 18:00-19:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Emergent Communication through Negotiation

UserKris Cao, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 11 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Predictive Uncertainty in Deep Learning

UserAndrey Malinin, CUED, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 04 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Multilingual NLP via Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings

UserIvan Vulic, LTL, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 27 April 2018, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

** cancelled **

UserJulian Perez, Naver Labs Europe.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 23 March 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

CANCELLED - Diversity of Expression in Utterance and the Idea of Language

This talk has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.

UserProf Adam Kendon (University of Cambridge).

HouseGR-06/7, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 22 March 2018, 16:30-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Virtual bargaining as a micro-foundation for communication

Note unusual time

UserProfessor Nick Chater, University of Warwick.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 09 March 2018, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Louisiana Creole - a creole at the periphery

UserIngrid Neumann-Holzschuh (Universität Regensburg).

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-05.

ClockFriday 09 March 2018, 12:00-13:00

French Linguistics Research Seminars

Louisiana Creole - a creole at the periphery

This talk is co-hosted with the Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

UserIngrid Neumann-Holzschuh (Universität Regensburg).

HouseFaculty of English, GR05.

ClockFriday 09 March 2018, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Jointly Learning Syntax and Semantics

UserJean Maillard, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 02 March 2018, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Constructing datasets for multi-hop reading comprehension across documents

UserJohannes Welbl, University College London.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 23 February 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Speak white, speak black, speak American

UserDarryl G Barthe Jr (Universiteit van Amsterdam).

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

ClockWednesday 21 February 2018, 18:15-19:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Deep reinforcement learning for dialogue policy optimisation

UserDr Milica Gasic, Dept. Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 16 February 2018, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Pruning and grafting syntactic trees for cross-lingual transfer tasks

UserEdoardo Ponti, TAL, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 09 February 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Third language acquisition at the initial stages: An event-related potential study probing for transfer

UserJason Rothman, David Miller and Eloi Puig-Mayenco (University of Reading / UiT the Arctic University of Norway).

HouseGR-06/7, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 08 February 2018, 16:30-18:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Role of primate amygdala neurons in economic decision-making

UserFabian Grabenhorst (U. of Cambridge, Dept of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience).

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

ClockWednesday 17 January 2018, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Imitation learning for structured prediction and automated fact checking

UserDr Andreas Vlachos, University of Sheffield.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 24 November 2017, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Internal seminar - new PhD students

UserNew NLIP PhDs.

HouseFW11, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 17 November 2017, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Whistled Speech and Language Discrimination

UserMary Ann Walter (Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus Campus) .

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

ClockWednesday 15 November 2017, 18:10-19:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Labelling Topics Using Neural Networks

UserNikolaos Aletras, Amazon Research Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 10 November 2017, 12:00-13:00

Second Language Education Group

Vocabulary: Principles and Practice

UserProfessor Norbert Schmitt, University of Nottingham.

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

ClockMonday 30 October 2017, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Grounded language learning in simulated worlds

UserFelix Hill, DeepMind.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 27 October 2017, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Neural Models for Information Retrieval

UserBhaskar Mitra, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 13 October 2017, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Text-to-text Generation Beyond Machine Translation

UserShashi Narayan, University of Edinburgh.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 06 October 2017, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Finite-State Transducers as a Theory of Dependency Structured Natural Language

UserAnssi Yli-Jyrä, University of Helsinki.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 22 September 2017, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Deep NLP in language tutoring

UserFrancis Bond, Associate Professor at the Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

HouseFW11, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 16 June 2017, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Predicting Rich Linguistic Structure with Neural Networks

UserJan Buys, University of Oxford.

HouseFW11, Computer Laboratory.

ClockTuesday 13 June 2017, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Functional Distributional Semantics

UserGuy Edward Toh Emerson (University of Cambridge).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 09 June 2017, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

NLP, the perfect social (media) science?

UserDirk Hovy, University of Copenhagen.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 07 June 2017, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Sentence-level Topic Models

UserKris Cao (University of Cambridge).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 02 June 2017, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

A cluster of Aromanian varieties in North-Western Greece

UserDr. Marios Mavrogiorgos, University of Cambridge.

HouseFaculty of English, Room SR24.

ClockWednesday 31 May 2017, 17:15-18:45

NLIP Seminar Series

Text Simplification: Where are we now, and where are we headed?

UserGustavo Henrique Paetzold, University of Sheffield.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 26 May 2017, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Learning Syntax with Deep Neural Networks

UserShalom Lappin (University of Gothenburg, King's College London and Queen Mary University of London).

HouseGR-06/7, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 25 May 2017, 16:30-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Neural Architectures for Sequence Labelling

UserMarek Rei, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 19 May 2017, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Norwegian Romani - the 'languageness' of a Para-Romani variety

Tea and biscuits from 16.45

UserJakob Wiedner, University of Oslo.

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-05.

ClockWednesday 10 May 2017, 17:15-19:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

VO-OV alternations and information structure in North Sami

Tea and biscuits from 17.45

UserKristine Bentzen, University of Tromsø.

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-04.

ClockWednesday 03 May 2017, 18:15-20:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Functional neuromarkers for psychiatry

UserDr Juri Kropotov Laboratory of Neurobiology of Action Programming at the Institute of the Human Brain .

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 12 April 2017, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Neural Variational Inference for NLP

UserYishu Miao, University of Oxford.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 10 March 2017, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

EACL potpourri

UserNLIP PhDs and postdocs.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 24 February 2017, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

The revival of Italo-Greek: language ideologies and folklorization

UserMaria Olimpia Squillaci (University of Cambridge) and Manuela Pellegrino (Brunel University).

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-05.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2017, 18:15-19:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Imitation learning for language generation from unaligned data

UserGerasimos Lampouras, University of Sheffield.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 10 February 2017, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

The hidden multilingualism of Italy: issues and challenges

UserDr. Marco Tamburelli, Prifysgol Bangor/Bangor University.

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-05.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2017, 18:15-19:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning Commonsense Event Schemas from Unlabeled Text

UserNate Chambers, US Naval Academy.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 20 January 2017, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Fox's son, they slept five, imitation of people: Kuikuro numerals and counting

This talk is held in conjunction with the Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc; http://camlingsoc.soc.srcf.net/)

UserBruna Franchetto, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

ClockMonday 05 December 2016, 17:15-19:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Fox's son, they slept five, imitation of people: Kuikuro numerals and counting

This talk is held in conjunction with the Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group (http://groups.ds.cam.ac.uk/celc/)

UserBruna Franchetto (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro).

HouseGR06/7 English Faculty.

ClockMonday 05 December 2016, 17:15-19:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Internal Seminar pt. 2

UserPhD students, NLIP group.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 02 December 2016, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

On sensing what is not there

UserAndrew Welchman, Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 01 December 2016, 15:30-17:00

French Linguistics Research Seminars

The Creole Language and its Relationship to Regional French in Louisiana

This talk is co-hosted by the Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

UserThomas A. Klingler, Tulane University.

HouseFaculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Room 8/9.

ClockThursday 24 November 2016, 17:15-19:00

Indo-European Seminar

Being non-binary: gender assignment in Old High German

Tea served from 4.15

UserSheila Watts.

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2016, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Social rank processing in depression

UserJason Stretton, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2016, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning to Detect Stance and Represent Emojis

UserIsabelle Augenstein, University College London.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 18 November 2016, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Recommending relevant citations using CoreSC and Argumentative Zoning

UserDaniel Duma, University of Edinburgh.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 11 November 2016, 12:00-13:00

Open Source for NLP

Open Source and NLP

A special one day workshop.

UserAnn Copestake (Cambridge), Aurelie Herbelot (Trento), Diana Maynard (Sheffield), Behrang QasemiZadeh (Düsseldorf), Nandaja Varma, Esther Seyffarth (Düsseldorf), Hrishikesh K.B. (Swathanthra Malayalam Computing).

HouseSeminar Room FW11, Computer Laboratory.

ClockThursday 10 November 2016, 09:00-17:00

Indo-European Seminar

Indo-European and Iranian layers of Armenian vocabulary: the case of month names

Tea served from 4.15

UserHrach Martirosyan (Vienna).

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2016, 16:30-17:30

Second Language Education Group

Lexical Patterns of Austerity in UK Broadsheet Text 2007-15

UserDr Mike Scott, Aston University and Lexical Analysis Software Ltd..

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

ClockMonday 07 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

Indo-European Seminar

Advances in Proto-Basque Reconstruction and The Proto-Indo-European-Euskarian Hypothesis

Tea served from 4.15

UserJuliette Blevins (Graduate Center, CUNY).

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 26 October 2016, 16:30-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Numerically Grounded Language Models

UserGeorge Spithourakis (UCL).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 21 October 2016, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The origins of speech and anti-rhythms

UserLaurence White (Plymouth University).

HouseGR06/7 English Faculty.

ClockThursday 20 October 2016, 16:30-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Internal Seminar pt. 1

UserNLIP Postdocs and PhDs.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 14 October 2016, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Text Readability Assessment for Second Language Learners

UserMenglin Xia (University of Cambridge).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 01 July 2016, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

The future of fMRI in cognitive neuroscience

UserProfessor Russell Poldrack, Department of Psychology, Stanford.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 09 June 2016, 15:30-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Incremental CCG parsing and its applications

UserBharat Ram Ambati, University of Edinburgh/Apple.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 27 May 2016, 12:00-13:00

Semitic Philology Lecture

Language Contact and the Genesis of Mishnaic Hebrew

UserProfessor Edward Cook, Catholic University, Washington DC.

HouseFaculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Sidgwick Site), Room 8-9.

ClockThursday 19 May 2016, 17:00-18:00

Chaucer Club

Motivated rejection of (climate) science: causes, tools and effects

UserProfessor Stephan Lewandowsky, School of Experimental Psychology, Bristol.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 19 May 2016, 15:30-16:30

Chaucer Club

Helping the police with their enquiries

UserProfessor Vicki Bruce, School of Psychology, Newcastle.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 12 May 2016, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Cognitive control in affective contexts

UserSusanne Schweizer MRC Cognition and Brian Science Unit.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 11 May 2016, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Is depression caused by a hyperactive habenula?

UserProfessor John Rosier, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 05 May 2016, 15:30-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

From passive to interactive (multimodal) language learning

UserAngeliki Lazaridou, University of Trento.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 15 April 2016, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Where Can I Buy a Boulder? Searching for Offline Retail Locations

UserSandro Bauer (University of Cambridge).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 08 April 2016, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Investigating effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation on hearing and auditory streaming

UserDr Lars Riecke, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 07 April 2016, 15:30-16:30

Chaucer Club

Investigating effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation on hearing and auditory streaming

UserDr Lars Riecke, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 07 April 2016, 15:30-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Texts Come from People - How Demographic Factors Influence NLP Models

UserDirk Hovy, University of Copenhagen.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 18 March 2016, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Tracing concepts through time

UserGabriel Recchia (University of Cambridge).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 11 March 2016, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

General-Purpose Representation Learning from Words to Sentences

***PLEASE NOTE CHANGED (DIFFERENT) TIME***

UserFelix Hill (University of Cambridge).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 04 March 2016, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

The brain on stress - Mechanisms underlying increases risk to develop psychopathologies

UserProfessor Carmen Sandi, Director of the Laboratory of Behavioural Genetics, Brain and Mind Institute, EPFL, Lausanne.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 03 March 2016, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Cantonese: the biggest endangered language?

UserCherry Lam (PhD candidate, DTAL, Cambridge) & Ricky Chan (PhD candidate, DTAL, Cambridge).

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

ClockWednesday 02 March 2016, 17:15-19:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Understanding generative learning in the individual brain

UserZoe Kourtzi (University of Cambridge).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 26 February 2016, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

The economic utility signal of dopamine neurons

UserDr Wolfram Schulz, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, BCNI, Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 25 February 2016, 15:30-16:30

Indo-European Seminar

A diachronic perspective on the temporality of the Greek infinitive

Tea served from 4.15

UserJerneja Kavčič (Ljubljana).

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2016, 16:30-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Data Science at The Guardian

UserFelix Sanchez-Garcia, The Guardian.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2016, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

What Happens Next? Event Prediction Using a Compositional Neural Network Model

UserMark Granroth-Wilding, Computer Laboratory.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 19 February 2016, 12:00-13:00

Indo-European Seminar

Can the Greek dialects be grouped? A response to Parker and Ringe

Tea served from 4.15

UserRupert Thompson and Matthew Scarborough (Cambridge).

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 17 February 2016, 16:30-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Modern Deep Learning through Bayesian Eyes

UserYarin Gal, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 12 February 2016, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Human neuroscience in the wild

UserDr Aldo Faisal, Department of Neurotechnology, Imperial.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 11 February 2016, 15:30-16:30

Indo-European Seminar

The syntax and semantics of -τος adjectives in Ancient Greek

Tea served from 4.15

UserRob Crellin (Copenhagen).

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 10 February 2016, 16:30-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Multilingual Image Description with Neural Sequence Models

UserEva Hasler, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 05 February 2016, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Size Matters: targetting non - conscious processes to reduce food and drink consumption

UserProf Theresa Marteau, Director of Behaviour and Health Research unit, University of Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 04 February 2016, 15:30-16:30

Chaucer Club

Learning and processing abstract concepts: The role of emotion and the role of language

UserProfessor Gabriella Vigliocco, Director, Language and Cognition Laboratory, UCL.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 28 January 2016, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Shawi, Quechua and Spanish: a Sea of Languages

UserLuis Miguel Rojas-Berscia, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics – Department for Language and Cognition.

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2016, 17:15-19:00

Chaucer Club

How does attentional control matter? Mechanisms and developmental dynamics

UserProfessor Gaia Scerif, Department of Educational Psychology, Oxford.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 21 January 2016, 15:30-16:30

Chaucer Club

Human brain networks from functional MRI

UserProfessor Ed Bullmore, Head of Dept Psychiatry, Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 14 January 2016, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

P Values and replication: the problem is not what you think

UserStephen Senn, Head of Competence Center for Methodology anbd Statistics ( CCMS), Luxembourg Institute for Health.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 16 December 2015, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The Science of E&D: Why equality and diversity benefits us all

UserRogier Kievit and Fionnuala Murphy, MRC Cogition and Brain Science Unit.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2015, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Lacking Integrity: HPSG as a Morphosyntactic Theory

UserGuy Edward Toh Emerson (University of Cambridge).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 27 November 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Eliminating A/A'-positions

UserCoppe van Urk, Queen Mary University of London.

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 26 November 2015, 16:30-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Born Global: Rethinking Language Policy for 21st Century Britain

UserBernardette Holmes MBE, Director of Speak To The Future; Bye-Fellow of Downing College.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS4.

ClockMonday 23 November 2015, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Understanding the function dimension of language endangerment with specific evidence from Runyakitara

UserFridah Katushemererwe, Department of Linguistics, English Language Studies and Communication Skills Makerere University.

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-04.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2015, 17:15-19:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Gained in translation

UserTom Manly, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2015, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

The integrative self

UserGlyn Humphreys, Psychology, Oxford.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 12 November 2015, 15:30-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

How much linguistics is needed for NLP?

UserEdward Grefenstette.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 06 November 2015, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Neural systems for navigation

UserHugo Spiers, Dept of Experimental Psychology, UCL.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 05 November 2015, 15:30-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Internal Seminar

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 30 October 2015, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Internal Seminar

UserNLIP Postdocs and PhDs.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 23 October 2015, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Understanding Word Embeddings

UserOmer Levy, Bar-Ilan University.

HouseFW11, Computer Laboratory.

ClockTuesday 13 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Unweaving The Lexical Rainbow: Grounding Linguistic Creativity in Perceptual Semantics

We only have LT2 for the hour, so please don't enter before 1pm and don't be late for the talk, as it will start promptly at 1:05 and we'll have to leave before 2pm.

UserTony Veale, University College Dublin.

HouseLT2, Computer Laboratory.

ClockThursday 08 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Game of Tropes: Exploring the Placebo Effect in Computational Creativity

UserTony Veale, University College Dublin.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 07 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Joint A* Syntactic and Semantic Parsing for CCG

UserMike Lewis, University of Washington.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 25 September 2015, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning Structural Kernels for Natural Language Processing

UserDaniel Beck, University of Sheffield.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 11 September 2015, 12:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Cross-lingual transfer of a semantic parser via parallel data

UserKilian Evang, University of Gronigen.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 07 August 2015, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Improving & Better Understanding Word Vector Representations

UserManaal Faruqui, Carnegie Mellon University.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 19 June 2015, 12:00-13:00

Indo-European Seminar

The family tree of Iranian and its problems

Tea served from 16.15

UserAgnes Korn .

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 17 June 2015, 16:30-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Crowdsourcing the annotation of rumours in social media

UserMaria Liakata, University of Warwick.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 12 June 2015, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Pitch perception: New approaches to classic questions

UserAndrew Oxenham (Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 11 June 2015, 15:30-16:30

Chaucer Club

Fast transient brain states

UserMark Woolrich (Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, University of Oxford) .

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 04 June 2015, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Laterals in Estonian Swedish

UserProfessor Francis Nolan, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics.

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-04.

ClockWednesday 27 May 2015, 17:15-19:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Open System Categorical Quantum Semantics in Natural Language Processing

UserDimitri Kartsaklis, Queen Mary University of London.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 22 May 2015, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Temporal dynamics of post-retrieval amnesia for learned fear

TALK CANCELLED

UserMerel Kindt (Department of Psychology, Amsterdam Brain and Cognition Center, University of Amsterdam).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 21 May 2015, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The Cambridge Cognitive Neuroscience Research Panel

Note - This talk will run from 12:30pm – 2:00pm

UserSharon Erzinclioglu and guests.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 20 May 2015, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Model Theory and the Semantics of Natural Languages

UserStanley Peters, Stanford University.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 15 May 2015, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

JASP: Bayesian hypothesis testing without tears

UserEric-Jan Wagenmakers (Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 14 May 2015, 15:30-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Disfluency detection in spoken learner English

UserAndrew Caines, DTAL, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 01 May 2015, 12:30-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Modelling implicit language learning with distributional semantics

UserDimitris Alikaniotis, DTAL, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 01 May 2015, 12:00-12:30

Chaucer Club

Adaptive computations for flexible cognition in the human brain

UserZoe Kourtzi (Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 30 April 2015, 15:30-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Statistical modelling of metaphor

UserEkatarina Shutova, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 24 April 2015, 12:00-13:00

French Linguistics Research Seminars

The use of French in Canada

UserProf. Sylvie Frigon (Ottawa).

HouseLubbock Room, Peterhouse.

ClockThursday 23 April 2015, 18:00-19:15

NLIP Seminar Series

The Geometry of Machine Translation

UserRory Waite, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 17 April 2015, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Online and offline human brain mapping with intracranial EEG

UserJean-Philippe Lachaux (French National Health Research Institute (INSERM), Lyon) .

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 12 March 2015, 15:30-16:30

Indo-European Seminar

"A phylogenetic classification of Bantu languages and its implications for ancient migration"

Tea served from 16.15

UserDr Rebecca Grollemund (Reading).

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2015, 16:30-17:30

Chaucer Club

Challenges and pitfalls in the application of transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS)

UserAndrea Antal (Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Göttingen University Medical School, Germany) .

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 05 March 2015, 15:30-16:30

Indo-European Seminar

On phylogenetic classification

Tea served from 16.15

UserDr Annemarie Verkerk (Reading).

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2015, 16:30-17:30

Chaucer Club

Age-related and individual differences in the time-course and information content of early face brain activity

UserGuillaume Rousselet (Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow) .

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 26 February 2015, 15:30-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Argument Mining from Text for Teaching and Assessing Writing

UserDiane Litman, University of Pittsburgh.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 20 February 2015, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Circuit mechanisms of hippocampus-dependent memory

UserOle Paulsen (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge) .

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 19 February 2015, 15:30-16:30

Second Language Education Group

Language development, social integration and achievement of recently-arrived EAL children in schools in the East of England

UserEducational Achievement, Language Education and Disadvantage (EALead) research team at the University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS4.

ClockMonday 16 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Neural mechanisms of spatial and episodic memory

UserNeil Burgess (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience & Department of Anatomy) .

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 12 February 2015, 15:30-16:30

Ibero-Romance Linguistics Seminars

Spanish parasynthetic verbs with prefix des-: A lexical semantic approach

UserElisabeth Gibert-Sotelo, Universitat de Girona-University of Cambridge.

HouseRoom DD 48, Cripps Building, Queens' College.

ClockWednesday 11 February 2015, 17:15-18:30

Indo-European Seminar

From 'RUN' to 'HELP': Anatolian, Core Indo-European and the chronology of a semantic shift

Tea served from 16.15

UserProf. J. L. García Ramón (Cologne).

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 11 February 2015, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Disentangling focus constructions in Luganda

UserJenneke van der Wal, University of Cambridge.

HouseLecture Block, Room 5, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 05 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Variability in visual processing between and within individuals

UserSam Schwarzkopf (Experimental Psychology & ICN, UCL) .

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 05 February 2015, 15:30-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Towards quantum algorithms for natural language processing

UserWill Zeng, University of Oxford.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 30 January 2015, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Frontiers in Named Entity Recognition and Linking

User Leon Derczynski and Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 23 January 2015, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Opportunities for Cognitive Neuroimaging at 7T

UserDavid Norris (Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 15 January 2015, 15:30-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

An embodied model of clause syntax

UserAlistair Knott, Dept of Computer Science, University of Otago, New Zealand.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 08 December 2014, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Imagined pleasures: The cognitive psychology of desire

UserJackie Andrade (Plymouth University, School of Psychology).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 04 December 2014, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Catalan: past, present and future

UserDr Víctor Acedo Matellán, University of Cambridge, Queens' College.

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

ClockWednesday 03 December 2014, 17:15-19:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Composed, Distributed Reflections on Semantics and Statistical Machine Translation

UserTim Baldwin, The University of Melbourne.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 28 November 2014, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

A Polya Urn Document Language Model for Information Retrieval

UserRonan Cummins, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 21 November 2014, 12:00-13:00

Ibero-Romance Linguistics Seminars

Bare nouns in Greek: the view from Spanish and Catalan

UserDr Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga (University of Cambridge & QMUL).

House DD47, Q .

ClockWednesday 19 November 2014, 17:30-18:30

Indo-European Seminar

Scribes, 'scribes' and language contact in Greco-Roman Egypt

Tea served from 16.15

UserMartti Leiwo (Helsinki).

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 19 November 2014, 16:30-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Exploratory Search and Trend Detection

UserGerhard Heyer, Universität Leipzig.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 14 November 2014, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

The vocal brain: cerebral processing of voice information

UserPascal Belin (Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone), Aix-Marseilles Université.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 13 November 2014, 15:30-16:30

Indo-European Seminar

Types of Greek interference in Latin medical translations

Tea served from 16.15

UserDavid Langslow (Manchester).

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 12 November 2014, 16:30-17:30

Centre for Commonwealth Education (CCE)

MASTERCLASS: Case study research in applied linguistics: What can case studies of L2 learners tell us?

Places are limited. If you would like to attend, please email rmk33@cam.ac.uk.

UserPatricia A. Duff, University of British Columbia.

HouseRoom GS4 Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

ClockWednesday 12 November 2014, 15:00-17:30

Centre for Commonwealth Education (CCE)

Multilingual socialization: Negotiating multiple languages, identities, ideologies, and practices

All welcome. If you would like to attend, please email rmk33@cam.ac.uk

UserPatricia A. Duff, University of British Columbia.

HouseRoom GS4 Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

ClockMonday 10 November 2014, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

The neural mechanisms of top-down control during visual working memory

UserEva Feredoes (School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 06 November 2014, 15:30-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

The case for a Computational Neurolinguistics

UserBrian Murphy, Queen's University Belfast.

HouseLT1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

ClockTuesday 04 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Internal Seminar 2

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 31 October 2014, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Developmental aspects of understanding speech in noisy backgrounds

UserStuart Rosen (Speech, Hearing & Phonetic Sciences, UCL).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 30 October 2014, 15:30-16:30

Indo-European Seminar

Monolingual bilinguals? Exploring Greek-Latin code switching with Fronto and friends

Tea served from 16.15

UserAlex Mullen (Oxford).

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2014, 16:30-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

First Step toward Neural Machine Translation

UserKyunghyun Cho, University of Montreal.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockThursday 23 October 2014, 12:00-13:00

Indo-European Seminar

Greek-Turkish language contacts in the Ottoman Empire: ways of verbal integration

Tea served from 16.15

UserMark Janse (Gent/Oxford).

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 22 October 2014, 16:30-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Creative Coding in Education

UserSam Aaron (University of Cambridge).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 17 October 2014, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Internal Seminar 1

UserNLIP Speakers.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 10 October 2014, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Development, plasticity, and structure underlying auditory language understanding

UserFred Dick (Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 09 October 2014, 15:30-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Unsupervised learning of rhetorical structure with un-topic models

UserDiarmuid Ó Séaghdha, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 15 August 2014, 12:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Helping 10% of the people to read and write better

UserLuz Rello, University Pompeu Fabra.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 13 June 2014, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Talk cancelled - please accept our apologies

Usertbc (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) .

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 11 June 2014, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Multilingual Models for Distributed Semantics

UserKarl Moritz Hermann, Oxford University.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 06 June 2014, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Shift-Reduce CCG Parsing with a Dependency Model

UserWenduan Xu, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockThursday 05 June 2014, 13:00-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Looking for hyponyms in vector space

UserMarek Rei, SwiftKey .

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockThursday 05 June 2014, 12:30-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Grammatical error correction using hybrid systems and type filtering

UserMariano Felice, Computer Laboratory, Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockThursday 05 June 2014, 12:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Robust multilingual syntactic parsing

UserRyan McDonald, Google.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 30 May 2014, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Identifying Deixis to Communicative Artifacts in Text

UserShomir Wilson, University of Edinburgh and Carnegie Mellon University.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 09 May 2014, 12:00-13:00

Semitic Philology Lecture

SAMARITAN MANUSCRIPT CULTURE AND THE ORAL TRANSMISSION OF THE SAMARITAN TORAH

All are welcome. The event will be followed by a reception.

UserProfessor Stefan Schorch, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.

HouseFaculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Sidgwick Site), Room 8-9.

ClockThursday 08 May 2014, 17:00-18:00

Chaucer Club

Life as we know it

UserKarl Friston (Institute of Neurology, University College London).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 08 May 2014, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

The Dialects of Campania. A Perspective of Linguistic Echology

UserRosanna Sornicola, Giovanni Abete, Margherita Di Salvo, Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II.

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-05.

ClockWednesday 07 May 2014, 17:15-19:00

French Linguistics Research Seminars

The French of Canada

UserSylvie Frigon (Ottawa).

HouseUpper Hall, Peterhouse.

ClockThursday 01 May 2014, 18:00-19:15

Chaucer Club

Motor cortex and perception - from speech to laughter

UserSophie Scott (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) .

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 01 May 2014, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

The decipherment of some recently found ostraca from Post-Roman North Africa

UserDr Sabine Ziegler, Saxonian Academy of Sciences at Leipzig / Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena.

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

ClockWednesday 30 April 2014, 17:15-19:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Towards empiricist models of language acquisition

UserAlexander Clark (King's College London).

HouseFaculty of Law, Room LG19.

ClockThursday 24 April 2014, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Adjective modification in compositional distributional semantics

UserEva Maria Vecchi, Computer Lab, Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 11 April 2014, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Using Semantics to help learn Phonetic Categories

UserStella Frank, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 04 April 2014, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Exploiting Large Corpora for Parsing

UserDominick Ng, University of Sydney.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 21 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Dynamic evolution of injury after traumatic brain injury

UserVirginia Newcombe (School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2014, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

The semantics of poetry: a distributional reading

This talk is also a part of the Language Sciences Interdisciplinary Programme.

UserAurelie Herbelot.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 07 March 2014, 12:00-13:00

Ibero-Romance Linguistics Seminars

Spanish and Catalan Linguistics

UserProf. Montserrat Batllori (Girona) Prof. Avelina Suñer (Girona) Prof. Álvaro Octavio de Toledo y Huerta (Muenchen).

HouseBowett Room, Queens’ College, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 06 March 2014, 14:00-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Constructing topical hierarchies for Expertise Mining

UserGeorgeta Bordea, DERI, NUI Galway.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 28 February 2014, 12:00-13:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Descriptive and normative models of working memory limitations

UserRonald van den Berg (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 26 February 2014, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

A Quest Towards Understanding the Challenges of Spoken Content Retrieval

UserGareth Jones, Dublin City University.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 21 February 2014, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Towards a model of morphological processing grounded in principles of discriminative learning

UserHarald Baayen, Eberhard Karls University, Tuebing and University of Alberta.

HouseGR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 06 February 2014, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

How do antidepressants work?

UserCatherine Harmer (University of Oxford) .

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 06 February 2014, 15:30-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Categorical compositional distributional semantics: state-of-the-art!

UserMehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Queen Mary University of London.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 31 January 2014, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Spectral Learning and Decoding for Natural Language Parsing

UserShay Cohen, University of Edinburgh.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 24 January 2014, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Which take which?

UserRichard Holton, University of Cambridge.

HouseGR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 23 January 2014, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

The problem of finding sources for the study of Norn, the Scandinavian language of Caithness and the Northern Isles.

UserDr Ragnhild Ljosland, Centre for Nordic Studies, University of the Highlands and Islands.

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-04.

ClockFriday 17 January 2014, 17:15-19:00

NLIP Seminar Series

GPstruct: Bayesian non-parametric structured prediction model

UserNovi Quadrianto, Machine Learning, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 17 January 2014, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Parsing Jazz: Harmonic Analysis of Music Using Combinatory Categorial Grammar

UserMark Granroth-Wilding, Computer Laboratory.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 06 December 2013, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

A Standard Document Score for Information Retrieval

UserRonan Cummins, University of Greenwich.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 29 November 2013, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Language Learning and the brain

UserMatt Davies, University of Cambridge.

HouseGR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 28 November 2013, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Using the internet for psychological research and clinical trials

UserProfessor Gerhard Andersson (Linköping University).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 28 November 2013, 15:30-16:30

Chaucer Club

Two cortical systems for memory-guided behaviour

UserProfessor Charan Ranganath (Center for Neuroscience and Department of Psychology, University of California at Davis).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 21 November 2013, 15:30-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Three Stories on Aggregated Search

UserMaarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam.

HouseSW 01, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

Second Language Education Group

Literacy Instruction and the Bilingual Learner

UserProfessor Catherine Wallace, Institute of Education, University of London .

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS5.

ClockMonday 18 November 2013, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning to Generate Natural Source Code

UserDaniel Tarlow, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 15 November 2013, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Traditional and Contemporary Torres Strait Languages and Dialects

UserTanisha Pabai, Stephen Yamashita, Zach Bani, Amelia Mari and Valent Kirk.

HouseFaculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Room 7.

ClockWednesday 13 November 2013, 17:15-19:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Data Management, Integration and Retrieval in Life Sciences Using Semantic Web Technology

UserSarinder Kaur Kashmir-Singh, University of Malaya.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 08 November 2013, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Waiting and resting brain states in Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

UserProfessor Edmund Sonuga-Barke (University of Southampton) .

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 07 November 2013, 15:30-16:30

Indo-European Seminar

An LFG analysis of the Latin reflexive

Tea served from 16.15

UserMarius Johndahl.

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2013, 16:30-17:30

Ibero-Romance Linguistics Seminars

Cleft sentences in the history of French and English: a case of pragmatic borrowing?

UserProf. Carola Trips (Mannheim) & Prof. Achim Stein (Stuttgart) .

HouseBowett Room, Queens’ College, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 31 October 2013, 15:45-16:45

Chaucer Club

Chickens and eggs: Separating cause and effect in drug addiction

CANCELLED, please accept our apologies, we will reschedule next term

UserDr Karen Ersche, University of Cambridge .

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 31 October 2013, 15:30-16:30

Indo-European Seminar

'Formal syntax and language phylogeny

Tea served from 16.15

UserPino Longobardi.

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2013, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

PTSD in children and adolescents: How cognitive mechanisms shape early responses to trauma

CANCELLED, please accept our apologies

UserRichard Meiser-Stedman (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2013, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Neonatal hypoxia, hippocampal damage and episodic memory impairment: A causal sequence?

UserProfessor Faraneh Vargha-Khadem (Institute of Child Health, London).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 24 October 2013, 15:30-16:30

Indo-European Seminar

The ab urbe condita construction in Latin - an LFG account

Tea served from 16.15

UserDag Haug.

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 23 October 2013, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Training amygdala regulation using real-time fMRI neurofeedback

UserAnnette Bruhel (BCNI, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 23 October 2013, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The onset of borrowing: Somali and English

UserJeanette Sakel, University of the West of England.

HouseGR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 17 October 2013, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Don't believe everything you read in the papers...

UserProfessor Marcus Munafo, University of Bristol.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 17 October 2013, 15:30-16:30

Chaucer Club

Challenging the use of adult neuropsychological models for explaining neurodevelopmental disorders: Developed versus developing brains

UserProfessor Annette Karmiloff-Smith (Centre for Brain & Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London) .

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 10 October 2013, 15:30-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Recursive Deep Learning for Modeling Semantic Compositionality

UserRichard Socher - Stanford University.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 31 July 2013, 14:00-15:00

Ibero-Romance Linguistics Seminars

The diachrony of the Romanian particle "să"

UserProf. Virginia Hill (University of New Brunswick in Saint John).

HouseBowett Room, Queens’ College, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 26 June 2013, 16:00-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Developing and testing a self-assessment and tutoring system

UserHelen Yannakoudakis, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW11, Computer Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 05 June 2013, 12:00-12:30

Chaucer Club

MRI biomarkers for neurodegenerative brain diseases

UserDr Julio Acosta-Cabronero (University of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 30 May 2013, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserTaylor Schmitz (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 29 May 2013, 12:30-13:30

Semitic Philology Lecture

EDWARD ULLENDORFF AND THE STUDY OF SEMITIC LANGUAGES

The event will be followed by a reception.

UserProfessor Simon Hopkins, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

HouseFaculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Sidgwick Site), Room 8-9.

ClockWednesday 22 May 2013, 17:00-18:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Using Bayes to get the most out of null results

UserZoltan Dienes (Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 15 May 2013, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

What can brain imaging tells us about psychology?

UserProfessor Dick Passingham (University of Oxford).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 09 May 2013, 15:30-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

How to Give a Technical Presentation in Computer Science

UserStephen Clark, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 22 March 2013, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Allochthonous languages, Brazilian Zeeuws, and Dummy Auxiliaries

UserAndrew Nevins (co-authored with Gertjan Postma and Elizana Schaffel-Bremenkamp).

HouseFaculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Room 8/9.

ClockWednesday 20 March 2013, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Unsupervised Domain Tuning to Improve Word Sense Disambiguation

UserJudita Preiss, University of Sheffield.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 15 March 2013, 12:00-13:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Tinnitus and cochlear implants

UserPhil Gomersall (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 13 March 2013, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Representational geometry modelling

UserAlex Walter (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 13 March 2013, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Adaptive constructive processes and the future of memory

UserProfessor Daniel Schacter (Harvard University, USA).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 07 March 2013, 15:30-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Two Approaches to Grammar Induction: From Plain Text to Semantic Supervision

UserOmri Abend, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem .

HouseFW11, Computer Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2013, 12:00-13:00

Second Language Education Group

Class in multilingualism research

UserProfessor David Block, ICREA-Universitat de Lleida.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room GS1.

ClockTuesday 05 March 2013, 17:30-19:00

Indo-European Seminar

Greek in Egypt, a heavyweight minority language

Tea served from 16.15

UserMarja Vierros (Helsinki/New York University).

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Distributional Semantics and Kernels

UserTamara Polajnar, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW11, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 22 February 2013, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Large-scale high-density electrocorticography reveals distinct synchronization networks and their cognitive functions

UserProfessor Pascal Fries (Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 21 February 2013, 15:30-16:30

Indo-European Seminar

Latin as a minority language in late Roman Britain

Tea served from 16.15

UserPaul Russell (ASNAC, Cambridge).

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Decision-making with and without rules

UserJiaxiang Zhang (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2013, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Linguistic Indicators for Estimating the Quality of Machine Translations

UserMariano Felice, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 15 February 2013, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Executive control and decision making in the human prefrontal cortex

UserProfessor Étienne Koechlin (Hopital de la Salpetriere, Paris).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 14 February 2013, 15:30-16:30

Indo-European Seminar

How many languages were spoken in the ancient world?

Tea served from 16.15

UserJames Clackson, Cambridge.

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

Chaucer Club

Studying action selection in frontoparietal motor networks with transcranial magnetic stimulation

UserProfessor Hartwig Siebner (Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 31 January 2013, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The consequences of intentional forgetting

UserJonathan Fawcett (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2013, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Null objects and markedness in L1 acquisition

UserIanthi Tsimpli (Aristotle University Thessaloniki/University of Reading).

HouseBowett Room, Queens' College.

ClockThursday 24 January 2013, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Volition and Agency

Joint Chaucer Club/Zangwill Club lecture

UserProfessor Patrick Haggard (University College London).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 17 January 2013, 15:30-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Machine translation from the user's perspective: what is it good for?

UserLucia Specia, University of Sheffield.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 30 November 2012, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Representation of motor skills in cortical networks

UserDr Jörn Diedrichsen (University College London).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 29 November 2012, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Recent research updates

UserCBSU Programme-leaders (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2012, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The Domain of Content

UserHagit Borer (Queen Mary, University of London).

HouseErasmus Room, Old Court, Queens' College.

ClockThursday 22 November 2012, 17:00-18:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The role of awareness and attention in eye-blink conditioning

Two short talks today

UserMoos Peeters (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Inferior temporal categoricality not accounted for by visual features

Two short talks today

UserSeyed Kaligh-Razavi (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Predict, Price and Cut: Column and Row Generation for Structured Prediction

User Sebastian Riedel, University College London.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 16 November 2012, 12:00-13:00

Second Language Education Group

Styling in a Language Learned Later in Life

All Welcome!

UserProfessor Ben Rampton, Professor of Applied and Socio-linguistics, King’s College London.

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

ClockWednesday 14 November 2012, 17:30-18:30

Chaucer Club

Neural mechanisms of foraging and decision making

UserProfessor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 08 November 2012, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Discrete bilectalism, multilingualism, and (a)typical language development

UserKleanthes K. Grohmann and Maria Kambanaros (University of Cyprus and Cyprus Acquisition Team).

HouseErasmus Room, Old Court, Queens' College.

ClockThursday 01 November 2012, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

A fast and simple algorithm for training neural probabilistic language models

UserAndriy Mnih, University College London.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 26 October 2012, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Derogatives: Meaning or Metadata?

The Erasmus Room is on the 1st Floor, and is marked no. 18 on the following map: http://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/mi-content/default.asp?PAGE_ID=1860

UserGeoffrey Nunberg (UC Berkeley).

HouseErasmus Room, Old Court, Queens' College.

ClockThursday 25 October 2012, 17:00-18:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Face space in the primate visual system

Two short talks today

UserJonathan O’Keeffe (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2012, 12:30-13:30

Second Language Education Group

Beyond multilingualism: Heteroglossia and social diversity

All welcome!

UserProfessor Adrian Blackledge, MOSAIC Centre for Research on Multilingualism, University of Birmingham.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS5.

ClockMonday 22 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Handling obsolete information in classification: is there a one-size-fits-all strategy?

UserChristoforos Anagnostopoulos, Imperial College London.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 19 October 2012, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Mechanisms underlying generalisation in word learning

UserProfessor Kathy Rastle (Royal Holloway, University of London).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 18 October 2012, 15:30-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

A New Twist on Methodologies for ESL Grammatical Error Detection

UserJoel Tetreault, Educational Testing Service.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 12 October 2012, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Neurocognitive universals in types of morphological process?

The Bowett Room is at no.7 on the following map: http://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/mi-content/default.asp?PAGE_ID=1860

UserWilliam Marslen-Wilson (University of Cambridge).

HouseBowett Room, Queens' College.

ClockThursday 11 October 2012, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Person identification and speech recognition in human communication

UserDr Katharina von Kriegstein (Max Plank Institute, Leipzig, Germany).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 11 October 2012, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Machine learning for auditory neuroscience

UserRichard Turner (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2012, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

New methods for noninvasive brain imaging and stimulation

UserProfessor Risto Ilmoniemi (Aalto University, Finland).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 04 October 2012, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Language Endangerment: Methodologies and New Challenges

Registration fee: £30 (payable at CRASSH) (cash only please). The fee includes lunch and a wine reception

UserPlenaries by Nicholas Ostler (Foundation for Endangered Languages) and Tjeerd de Graaf (Frisian Academy).

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockFriday 06 July 2012, 08:45-17:45

NLIP Seminar Series

Data Mining and Information Extraction for CiteSeerX and Friends

UserDr. C. Lee Giles, Pennsylvania State University.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 29 June 2012, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Fuse Project and Citation Analysis

UserDain Kaplan - University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 22 June 2012, 12:30-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning Syntactic Verb Frames Using Graphical Models

UserTom Lippincott, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 22 June 2012, 12:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Following Wisdom in Machine Learning

UserNovi Quadrianto, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 15 June 2012, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Look on the bright side: Reducing anxiety via the direct modification of cognitive bias

UserDr Laura Hoppitt (School of Social Work and Psychology, University of East Anglia).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 14 June 2012, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The neural basis of speech intelligibility

Postponed from 13th to 20th June, please accept our apologies for any inconvenience

UserSam Evans (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 13 June 2012, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Does the motor system have a functional role in action perception?

UserDr James Kilner (Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, Institute of Neurology).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 07 June 2012, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

An overview of Bayesian filtering and its applications to neuronal data

Please note - this is a change from our original schedule

UserHamid Mohseni (post-doc at Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 06 June 2012, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Semi-supervised learning for automatic conceptual property extraction

UserColin Kelly, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 01 June 2012, 12:30-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Modelling selectional preferences in a lexical hierarchy

UserDiarmuid Ó Séaghdha, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 01 June 2012, 12:00-12:30

Chaucer Club

Distributed neural circuits, not circumscribed centers, mediate both face and word recognition

Talk Cancelled - Please accept our apologies

UserProfessor Marlene Behrmann (Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University and Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockMonday 28 May 2012, 15:30-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Modeling coherence in ESOL learner texts

UserHelen Yannakoudakis, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 25 May 2012, 12:30-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Context-Enhanced Citation Sentiment Detection

UserAwais Athar, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 25 May 2012, 12:00-12:30

Indo-European Seminar

LATIN CLITICS AND LATIN WORD ORDER

Please note - timings still unknown

UserDr Giuseppe Pezzini (Oxford); Prof. Peter Kruschwitz (Reading).

HouseRoom to be announced Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 15:00-19:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Repair and adherence in patient-clinician dialogues

UserMatthew Purver -- Queen Mary, University of London.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 18 May 2012, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Multimodal neuroimaging of the human visual system: Linking cortical oscillatory dynamics to haemodynamic responses, neurotransmitters and behaviour

UserProfessor Krish Singh (Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 17 May 2012, 15:30-16:30

Chaucer Club

Conduct problems and callous-unemotional traits: Using multiple methodologies to find out more

UserProfessor Essi Viding (Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL, London).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 10 May 2012, 15:30-16:30

Indo-European Seminar

INDO-IRANIAN REFLEXES OF INDO-EUROPEAN STATIVES

Tea served from 16.15

UserDr Ilya Yakubovitch, Oxford.

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 09 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Beyond Shallow Semantics

UserMartha Palmer, University of Colorado.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 04 May 2012, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Title to be confirmed

UserAnn Copestake (University of Cambridge).

HouseLatimer Room, E Staircase, Clare College Old Court.

ClockThursday 03 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Placing the wandering mind in context: Dispelling three myths about the daydreaming state

UserJonathon Smallwood (Department of Social Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive Brain Sciences, Germany).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 03 May 2012, 15:30-16:30

Chaucer Club

How memory guides perception

UserProfessor Kia Nobre (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 26 April 2012, 15:30-16:30

Chaucer Club

Education 2.0: How genetics informs us about cognitive development, learning, and achievement

UserProfessor Timothy Bates (School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 19 April 2012, 15:30-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Helping computers talk from experience

UserBlaise Thomson, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 23 March 2012, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Entity-based Models for Discourse Structure

UserMicha Elsner, University of Edinburgh.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 16 March 2012, 14:00-15:00

Semantics and Pragmatics Research Group

Reading Group

UserDiscussion of F. Moltmann 2010 'Generalizing detached self-reference and the semantics of generic *one*'.

HouseRoom 109, Kennedy Building, Newnham College.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Neurocognitive plasticity in the aging brain

CANCELLED - please accept our apologies

UserProfessor Lorraine Tyler (Centre for Speech, Language and the Brain, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 08 March 2012, 15:30-16:30

World Oral Literature Project

The Encyclopaedia of Literature in African Languages

UserUrsula Baumgardt and Marie Lorin (National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations (INALCO) and Mixed Research Unit (UMR) CNRS, Language, Languages and Cultures of Black Africa (LLACAN)).

HouseMcDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 05 March 2012, 17:00-18:00

Chaucer Club

Imagining other people

UserDr Demis Hassabis (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 01 March 2012, 15:30-16:30

Indo-European Seminar

"Progress in Mycenaean Studies"

Tea served from 16.15

UserProf. John Bennet, Sheffield.

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 29 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

Semantics and Pragmatics Research Group

Reading Group

UserDiscussion of I. Noveck et al. 2011 'A deflationary account of invited inferences'.

HouseRoom 109, Kennedy Building, Newnham College.

ClockWednesday 29 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Automatically Creating Reading Lists with Topical PageRank

UserJames Jardine, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 24 February 2012, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Components of working memory in task control

UserProfessor Graham Hitch (Department of Psychology, University of York).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 23 February 2012, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Title to be confirmed

UserBonnie Schwartz (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

HouseLatimer Room, E Staircase, Clare College Old Court.

ClockThursday 16 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

Indo-European Seminar

"Progress in Mycenaean Studies"

Tea served from 16.15

UserDr Helena Tomas, University of Zagreb.

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

Chaucer Club

Cognitive reserve and Alzheimer’s disease: Where society and biology meet

Note - this is a Joint Chaucer/Zangwill Club talk and will be held at Department of Experimental Psychology

UserProfessor Ian Robertson (School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin).

HouseDept of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 10 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Neurophysiology of speech act processing

UserNatalia Egorova (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2012, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Brain function for communication: Cross-species comparisons

UserDr Christopher Petkov (Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University Medical School).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 02 February 2012, 15:30-16:30

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

NLP Reading Group: Cross-Cutting Models of Lexical Semantics

UserDiarmuid Ó Séaghdha (University of Cambridge).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockThursday 02 February 2012, 12:00-13:00

Indo-European Seminar

"Progress in Mycenaean Studies"

Tea served from 16.15

UserDr Jörg Weilhartner, Austrian Academy of Sciences.

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 01 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Bayesian Smoothing for Language Models

UserYee Whye Teh, University College London.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 27 January 2012, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Developmental dyslexia: A temporal sampling framework

UserProfessor Usha Goswami (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 26 January 2012, 15:30-16:30

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

NLIP reading group: Bayesian Smoothing for Language Models

UserAndreas Vlachos (University of Cambridge).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockThursday 26 January 2012, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Computational phenotyping of social gestures using economic games

UserProfessor P. Read Montague (Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and Dept of Physics, Virginia Tech & Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College, London).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 19 January 2012, 15:30-16:30

Chaucer Club

Information gathering and impulsivity

UserProfessor Bruno Averbeck (Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 12 January 2012, 15:30-16:30

Chaucer Club

Cognitive style in Autism: what does 'weak central coherence' explain?

UserProfessor Francesca Happe (Institute of Psychiatry, London).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 08 December 2011, 15:30-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Probabilistic models of similarity and plausibility in context

UserDiarmuid Ó Séaghdha, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 02 December 2011, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Distributed cortical circuits, optimized over development, mediate visual cognition

CANCELLED, to be rearranged for the new year

UserProfessor Marlene Behrmann (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 01 December 2011, 15:30-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

What is meaning? - Formalising the Distributional Hypothesis

UserDaoud Clarke, University of Hertfordshire.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 25 November 2011, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Executive functions: fractures, fractionation, and repair

UserProfessor Sue Gathercole (MRC Cognition and Braiin Sciences Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 24 November 2011, 15:30-16:30

Indo-European Seminar

Official prescriptive texts in Republican Italy : a diaphasic koiné ?

Tea served from 4.15

UserEmmanuel Dupraz (Rouen).

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2011, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Does working memory training work?

UserJoni Holmes (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2011, 12:30-13:30

Historical Linguistics Research Cluster

The pro cycle

UserJan Terje Faarlund, University of Oslo.

HouseGR-03, English Faculty Building, West Road.

ClockMonday 21 November 2011, 16:00-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Stream-based Statistical Machine Translation

UserAbby Levenberg, University of Oxford.

HouseSS03, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 18 November 2011, 12:00-13:00

Information Structure

"Topic enclitics in Yucatec Maya: p-phrasing and information structure."

UserProf. Stavros Skopeteas, University of Bielefeld.

HouseOld Hall.

ClockThursday 17 November 2011, 17:30-18:30

Indo-European Seminar

South Picene and Sabine

Tea served from 4.15

UserVincent Martzloff (Paris).

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2011, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Resumption and the Design of Grammar

UserAsh Asudeh (University of Oxford & Carleton University).

HouseLatimer Room, E Staircase, Clare College Old Court.

ClockThursday 27 October 2011, 17:00-18:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Using frequency-tagged stimuli and EEG to measure selective attention

UserJason Mattingley (University of Queensland, School of Psychology, and MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 19 October 2011, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Biomedical Natural Language Figure Processing

UserHong Yu, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

HouseFW11, Computer Laboratory.

ClockTuesday 18 October 2011, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Search-based Structured Prediction applied to Biomedical Event Extraction

UserAndreas Vlachos, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 14 October 2011, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The Syntax of Meteorology

UserJohn Collins (University of East Anglia).

HouseBarbara White Room, Newnham College.

ClockThursday 13 October 2011, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Identifying poorly functioning cochlear implant channels

UserProfessor Julie Bierer (University of Washington).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 13 October 2011, 15:30-16:30

Indo-European Seminar

Listening not maybe to Virgil, but to the peoples of Italy

Tea served from 4.15

UserMichael Crawford, London.

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 12 October 2011, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Heart and brain

UserFrancesca Cormack (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 12 October 2011, 12:30-13:30

Speech Seminars

Learning Hierarchical Translation Structure with Linguistic Annotations

Sandwiches will be provided.

UserMarkos Mylonakis, University of Amsterdam.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Room LR10.

ClockTuesday 11 October 2011, 13:00-14:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Better Together: Large Monolingual, Bilingual and Multimodal Corpora in NLP

UserShane Bergsma - Johns Hopkins University.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 10 October 2011, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Forgetting fear - the neural mechanism underlying fear memories

UserProfessor Daniella Schiller (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 06 October 2011, 15:30-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning hard chart constraints for efficient context-free parsing

UserBrian Roark - Oregon Health and Science University.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockThursday 06 October 2011, 12:00-13:00

Speech Seminars

Applications of Lexicographic Semirings in Speech and Language Processing

Sandwiches will be provided.

UserBrian Roark, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Room LR10.

ClockMonday 03 October 2011, 13:00-14:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Graph-Based Methods for Large-Scale Multilingual Knowledge Integration

UserGerard de Melo, Max Planck Institute for Informatics.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 22 July 2011, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Improving cognition

UserJohn Jonides (Dept of Psychology, University of Michigan).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 16 June 2011, 15:30-16:30

Speech Seminars

Lagrangian relaxation for inference in natural language processing

There will be sandwiches.

UserMichael Collins, Columbia University.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

ClockMonday 13 June 2011, 13:00-14:30

NLIP Seminar Series

A New Dataset and Method for Automatically Grading ESOL Texts

UserHelen Yannakoudakis, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 10 June 2011, 12:00-12:30

Chaucer Club

esfMRI: Signal propagation and studies of connectivity

UserNikos Logothetis (Dept of Physiology, Max Planck Institute).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 09 June 2011, 15:30-16:30

Second Language Education Group

Research and practice in content and language integrated learning (CLIL)

UserProfessor Rick de Graaff, Utrect University, Faculty of Humanities & Centre for Teaching and Learning.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS4.

ClockTuesday 07 June 2011, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Language in 3D: semantic tensor space

UserTim Van de Croys - University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 03 June 2011, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Getting a grip on reality: A role for medial prefrontal cortex in source recollection

UserJon Simons (Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 19 May 2011, 15:30-16:30

Chaucer Club

Neurobiological landscapes for language evolution and variation

UserWilliam Marslen-Wilson (Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 12 May 2011, 15:30-16:30

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

NLIP reading group: Connecting the Dots Between News Articles

UserDiarmuid Ó Séaghdha (University of Cambridge).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockThursday 12 May 2011, 12:00-13:00

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Looking at Language Acquisition XII - Aspect markers in Brunei Malay

UserAznah Suhaimi, RCEAL, University of Cambridge.

HouseGR-03, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 10 May 2011, 16:40-17:20

RCEAL occasional seminars

Workshop on Language Acquisition

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockTuesday 10 May 2011, 14:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Memory and the Brain: Past, Present and Future

UserProfessor Morris Moscovitch from the University of Toronto.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 05 May 2011, 15:30-16:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Clitic (Mis)Placement in Early Grammars: Evidence from Cypriot Greek

UserTheoni Neokleous, RCEAL, University of Cambridge.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 03 May 2011, 16:00-17:30

Semantics and Pragmatics Research Group

Workshop: Underdetermination in Semantics and Utterance Processing

All are welcome

UserProfessor François Recanati (CNRS).

HouseGR05, English Faculty.

ClockThursday 28 April 2011, 13:30-17:00

Speech Seminars

Engineering Advances in Measuring and Using Speech Production Information

There will be sandwiches

User Shrikanth Narayanan, University of Southern California.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

ClockMonday 11 April 2011, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge Institute for Language Research events

Bilingual Language and Cognition: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Workshop sponsored by Cambridge Institute of Language Research, organised by Dr. Luna Filipovic (Linguistics) and Dr. Napoleon Katsos (RCEAL)

UserMultiple speakers (see www.cilr.cam.ac.uk for details).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockFriday 18 March 2011, 09:00-19:30

Chaucer Club

The role of experience in shaping category selectivity in human ventral visual cortex

UserKalanit Grill-Spector (Neuroscience Institute, Stanford University, USA).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 17 March 2011, 15:30-16:30

RCEAL occasional seminars

Workshop on Language Processing

UserSteven Frisson, University of Birmingham, and members of the Language Acquisition and Language Processing Research Cluster.

HouseGR-04, English Faculty Building.

ClockWednesday 16 March 2011, 12:00-17:00

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Robust language acquisition – It just Zipf’s right along

UserNick Ellis, English Language Institute, University of Michigan.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 15 March 2011, 16:00-17:30

RCEAL occasional seminars

Workshop on Language Acquisition

UserNick Ellis, University of Michigan, and members of the Language Acquisition and Language Processing Research Cluster.

HouseGR-05, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 14 March 2011, 14:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

A novel developmental model of episodic-like memory in laboratory rodents

UserRosamund Langston (Centre for Neuroscience, University of Dundee).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 10 March 2011, 15:30-16:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Linguistic complexity as optimal grammar length: An information-theoretic approach

UserFermín Moscoso del Prado Martín, Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage, Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique & Institut Rhône-Alpin des Systèmes Complexes, Lyon.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 08 March 2011, 16:00-17:30

Historical Linguistics Research Cluster

Communicative competence and eighteenth-century English norms of correctness

UserIngrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, University of Leiden and Clare Hall, Cambridge.

HouseGR-04, English Faculty Building, West Road.

ClockMonday 07 March 2011, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Surprisingly Efficient Parsing for a Wide-Coverage Lexicalised-Grammar Parser

UserStephen Clark and Yue Zhang - University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 04 March 2011, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Parsing the stream of behaviour

UserJeff Zacks (Washington University, St Louis, USA).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 03 March 2011, 15:30-16:30

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

The automated assessment of texts produced by learners of English

UserHelen Yannakoudakis (University of Cambridge).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockThursday 03 March 2011, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Categorical Compositionality for Distributional Semantics, Without Tears

UserEdward Grefenstette, University of Oxford.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 25 February 2011, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

fMRI brain activity patterns in real-time: From basic research to clinical applications

UserRainer Goebel (Department of Neurocognition, University of Maastricht), The Netherlands.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 24 February 2011, 15:30-16:30

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

An Introduction to Random Indexing

UserJimme Jardine (University of Cambridge).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockThursday 24 February 2011, 12:00-13:00

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Semantic implicit learning

UserAlbertyna Paciorek, RCEAL, University of Cambridge.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 22 February 2011, 16:00-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Automatic speech act identification in business emails

UserRachele de Felice - University of Nottingham.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 18 February 2011, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Phases and semantics

UserWolfram Hinzen (University of Durham).

HouseGR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 17 February 2011, 17:00-18:30

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

Something a little different...

UserStephen Clark (Computer Laboratory).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockThursday 17 February 2011, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

The role of early visual areas in high-level visual cognition

UserFrank Tong (Dept of Psychology, Vanderbilt Uiveristy, USA).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 10 February 2011, 15:30-16:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

On automatically analyzing learner language: Interpreting form and meaning in context

UserDetmar Meurers, Department of Linguistics, University of Tubingen.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 08 February 2011, 16:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

Timing attention in the human brain

UserKia Nobre (Dept Psychology, Oxford).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 03 February 2011, 15:30-16:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

From time to time: structuring temporality in advanced L2 discourse

UserNorbert Vanek, RCEAL, University of Cambridge.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 01 February 2011, 16:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

Which mental functions get their own private patch of cortex?

UserNancy Kanwisher (Dept of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT, USA).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 27 January 2011, 15:30-16:30

Second Language Education Group

Comparing language learning and proficiency across Europe

UserKaren Ashton, Project Manager, European Survey on Language Competences, Cambridge ESOL, Cambridge Assessment.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS4.

ClockMonday 24 January 2011, 17:00-18:30

Historical Linguistics Research Cluster

Converging methods in the study of language change

UserJoel Wallenberg (University of Iceland).

HouseGR-05, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 17 January 2011, 16:20-17:00

Historical Linguistics Research Cluster

Preterite/periphrasis interchange in Old English

UserMorgan Macleod (University of Cambridge).

HouseGR-05, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 17 January 2011, 14:40-15:20

Historical Linguistics Research Cluster

Testing reflexivity and logophoricity in Latin

UserMarius Jøhndal (University of Cambridge).

HouseGR-05, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 17 January 2011, 14:00-14:40

SyntaxLab

TBC

UserProf. Giuseppe Longobardi (Trieste).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockWednesday 01 December 2010, 18:00-19:30

Indo-European Seminar

Images and letters: the colourful world of painted Greek vase-inscriptions

Tea Served from 4.15

UserMr Georg Gerleigner.

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 01 December 2010, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Individual object representations in individual people

CANCELLED - REPLACED BY JUSTIN HULBERT. WILL BE SCHEDULED FOR NEXT TERM

UserIan Charest (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 01 December 2010, 12:30-13:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Residual optionality in L1 syntax: effects of delayed onset of acquisition

UserJuergen M. Meisel, University of Hamburg / University of Calgary.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 30 November 2010, 16:00-17:30

SyntaxLab

Queer quirky case raising and fickle grammatical functions in Icelandic and Faroese

UserDr Tania E. Strahan (University of Iceland).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockMonday 29 November 2010, 17:30-19:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Towards a Stochastic Model of Linguistic Competence

UserShalom Lappin - King's College, London.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 26 November 2010, 12:00-13:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Inducing amnesia through hippocampal modulation

CANCELLED - RESCHEDULED FOR WEDS 1ST DEC

UserJustin Hulbert (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 24 November 2010, 12:30-13:30

Second Language Education Group

Gender Construction and its Negotiation in the Course of Second Language Learning

All welcome!

UserHuajing Zhao, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS4.

ClockMonday 22 November 2010, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Two robust semi-supervised learning algorithms for natural language processing

UserAnders Søgaard, University of Copenhagen.

HouseFW11, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 19 November 2010, 12:00-13:00

Indo-European Seminar

The IE Influence on Modern Semitic Languages

Tea Served from 4.15

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 17 November 2010, 16:30-17:30

Semantics Lunch (Computer Laboratory)

A Language for Mathematics

UserMohan Ganesalingam (University of Cambridge).

HouseRoom FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

ClockMonday 15 November 2010, 12:45-14:00

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

Unsupervised Modeling of Twitter Conversations

UserDiarmuid Ó Séaghdha (University of Cambridge).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 15 November 2010, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Event Extraction from Biomedical Texts by Trimming Dependency Graphs

UserEkaterina Buyko - JULIE Lab, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 12 November 2010, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

'Why Eyes'

UserVicki Bruce (Newcastle University).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 11 November 2010, 15:30-16:30

SyntaxLab

Syntax Cluster Workshop I

UserProf. Hilda Koopman, Prof. Dominique Sportiche, Prof. Giuseppe Longobardi and Alastair Appleton.

HouseG-R05, English Faculty.

ClockThursday 11 November 2010, 14:00-19:00

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

Term Weighting Schemes for Latent Dirichlet Allocation

UserJames Jardine, Computer Laboratory, Cambridge.

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 08 November 2010, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

ACS project presentations

UserVarious NLP researchers, University of Cambridge.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockThursday 04 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

Indo-European Seminar

Writing in Late Bronze Age Cyprus

Tea Served from 4.15

UserDr Philippa Steele.

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 03 November 2010, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Institute for Language Research events

SEMANTICS AND ONTOLOGY

UserProfessor Max Cresswell, Victoria University of Wellington, Flemish Academic Centre for Science and the Arts (VLAC).

HouseGR4, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockMonday 01 November 2010, 17:00-18:30

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

Conditional Random Fields

UserThomas Lippincott (University of Cambridge).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 01 November 2010, 12:30-13:30

SyntaxLab

Short Course: Categories in Generative Grammar (Session 3: Mixed Projections)

UserDr Phoevos Panagiotidis (University of Cyprus).

HouseLecture Block, room 3.

ClockFriday 29 October 2010, 11:00-13:00

SyntaxLab

Locality and the movement derivation of conditional clauses: IrrealisP as WorldP?

UserProf. Liliane Haegeman (Ghent).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockThursday 28 October 2010, 18:00-19:30

Chaucer Club

Ideas about the role of cortical oscillations in speech perception and production

UserAnne-Lise Giraud (Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, Départment d'Etudes Cognitives, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 28 October 2010, 15:30-16:30

SyntaxLab

Short Course: Categories in Generative Grammar (Session 2: The category of functional categories)

UserDr Phoevos Panagiotidis (University of Cyprus).

HouseLecture Block, room 6.

ClockThursday 28 October 2010, 13:00-15:00

SyntaxLab

Short Course: Categories in Generative Grammar (Session 1)

UserDr Phoevos Panagiotidis (University of Cyprus).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockWednesday 27 October 2010, 18:00-19:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and pattern separation in the hippocampus

UserPedro Bekinschtein (Cognitive Systems Neuroscience Lab, Dept of Experimental Psychology).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 27 October 2010, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

BioCaster 2.0: Online text analysis for early alerting of disease outbreaks

UserNigel Collier - National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 27 October 2010, 12:00-13:00

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

The role of psychometrics in the assessment of speech and language difficulties

UserJohn Rust, University of Cambridge, Director - The Psychometrics Centre.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 26 October 2010, 16:00-17:30

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

Extracting social networks from literary fiction...

UserEkaterina Shutova (University of Cambridge).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 25 October 2010, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Patent Search: a challenging problem for IR and NL

UserJohn Tait - The Information Retrieval Facility, Vienna.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 22 October 2010, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Predicting pain and pain modulation from fMRI activity

UserTor Wager (Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado, USA).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 21 October 2010, 15:30-16:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Statistical pitfalls in corpus research

UserToni Rietveld, Radboud University Nijmegen.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockWednesday 20 October 2010, 16:00-17:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Prosody and Language-Speech Pathology

UserToni Rietveld, Radboud University Nijmegen.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 19 October 2010, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Institute for Language Research events

THE SEMANTIC MYTH OF TEXT AND CONTEXT

UserProfessor Stephen Neale, City University New York.

HouseGR5, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockMonday 18 October 2010, 17:00-18:30

Ibero-Romance Linguistics Seminars

El voseo en español: situacion actual y historia.

UserProf. Miguel Calderón Campos (Universidad de Granada).

HouseBo, Queens' College.

ClockMonday 18 October 2010, 10:00-11:00

Ibero-Romance Linguistics Seminars

El contacto del arabe con el iberorromance. Los arabismos en la historia del español.

UserProf. María Teresa García Godoy (Universidad de Granada).

HouseBo, Queens' College.

ClockMonday 18 October 2010, 09:00-10:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Open Problems for Literary Text Generation in the WASP System

UserPablo Gervas - Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 15 October 2010, 12:00-13:00

SyntaxLab

Demonstratives as the external argument of n

UserProf. Ian Roberts (Linguistics).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockWednesday 13 October 2010, 18:00-19:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Can you see what I'm thinking? Eye-tracking research on Theory of Mind

UserPaula Rubio-Fernandez, University College London / Princeton University.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 12 October 2010, 16:00-17:30

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

Report-back on ACL2010

UserMarek Rei & Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha (University of Cambridge).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 11 October 2010, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Time-resolved brain imaging and the neuroscience of language

UserRitta Salmelin (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 07 October 2010, 15:30-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

A Fast Decoder for Joint Word Segmentation and POS-Tagging using a Single Discriminative Model

UserYue Zhang and Stephen Clark, University of Cambridge.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 01 October 2010, 12:30-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Practical Linguistic Steganography using Contextual Synonym Substitution and Vertex Colour Coding

UserChing-Yun Chang and Stephen Clark, University of Cambridge.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 01 October 2010, 12:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Semantics, Text, and Biomedical Knowledge Discovery: Challenges and Opportunities

UserKarin Verspoor - University of Colorado Denver.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 06 September 2010, 12:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Evaluation of Dependency Parsers on Unbounded Dependencies

UserLaura Rimell - University of Cambridge.

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 28 July 2010, 12:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Models of Metaphor in NLP

UserEkaterina Shutova, University of Cambridge.

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockThursday 08 July 2010, 12:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Latent Variable Models of Selectional Preference

UserDiarmuid Ó Séaghdha, University of Cambridge.

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 28 June 2010, 12:30-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Natural mathematical language for the computer

UserArnold Neumaier, University of Vienna.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 25 June 2010, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Log-linear models with hidden features for label and link prediction

UserCharles Elkan, University of California, San Diego.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 21 June 2010, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Language processing in the musician brain

UserDr Mireille Besson (CNRS Mediterranean Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 17 June 2010, 15:30-16:30

SyntaxLab

Demonstratives and the structure of the DP: crosslinguistic remarks

UserDr Cristina Guardiano (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia/Linguistics).

HouseG-R05, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 15 June 2010, 14:00-15:30

Linguistics PhD seminars

Talk B - Reanalysis of the Latin gerundive

UserMarius L. Jøhndal (University of Cambridge).

HouseGR-04, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 14 June 2010, 17:00-18:00

Second Language Education Group

Identity Problems

UserProfessor David Block, Institute of Education, London.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS5.

ClockMonday 14 June 2010, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Flashbacks and flash-forwards: Imagery and emotion in psychopathology

UserDr Emily Holmes (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 10 June 2010, 15:30-16:30

SyntaxLab

Some remarks on the syntax of numerals

UserAnna Kibort (Linguistics).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 08 June 2010, 18:00-19:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Morphosyntactic and pragmatic abilities in different populations of language learners

UserProf. Maria Teresa Guasti, University of Milano-Bicocca.

HouseGR-05, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 08 June 2010, 14:00-15:30

SyntaxLab

Movement-triggering features, A-movement and Snowballing

UserAlastair Appleton (Linguistics).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockMonday 07 June 2010, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Evolution, sex/gender and sociolinguistics

UserProf. Deborah Cameron, Faculty of English, University of Oxford.

HouseGR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 27 May 2010, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Automatic Metaphor Interpretation as a Paraphrasing Task

UserEkaterina Shutova, University of Cambridge.

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockThursday 27 May 2010, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Linguistic Steganography using Automatically Generated Paraphrases

UserChing-Yun (Frannie) Chang, University of Cambridge.

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockThursday 27 May 2010, 12:00-12:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

The Discourse of Language Endangerment

UserProfessor Nikolai Vakhtin (European University of St. Petersburg).

HouseLeslie Stephen Room, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 20 May 2010, 18:00-19:00

Chaucer Club

Electrical neuroimaging for understanding decision making and developing patient machine interfaces

TALK CANCELLED - Apologies, we will try to reschedule later in the year

UserDr Sara Gonzalez Andino (Electrical Neuroimaging Group, Geneva University Hospital).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 20 May 2010, 15:30-16:30

SyntaxLab

A cartographic study of Brazilian Portuguese‘lá’

UserBruna Pereira (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais/Linguistics).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 18 May 2010, 18:00-19:30

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

Combinatory Categorial Grammar

UserStephen Clark (Computer Laboratory).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 17 May 2010, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Enhancing NLP with Knowledge: Ontology-Based Information Retrieval for Handwritten Text

UserMarcus Eichenberger-Liwicki, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 17 May 2010, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

When all the songs sound the same: Characterising congenital amusia

UserDr Lauren Stewart (Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 13 May 2010, 15:30-16:30

SyntaxLab

Humour in Sign Languages: the linguistic underpinnings

UserProf. Donna Jo Napoli (Swarthmore).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 11 May 2010, 16:00-17:30

Historical Linguistics Research Cluster

The history of English phrase-level syllabification

UserRicardo Bermúdez-Otero (University of Manchester).

HouseBowett Room, Queens’ College, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 10 May 2010, 16:00-16:45

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

A proposed research project on the Occitan language movement

Co-hosted with the Cambridge French Linguistics Research Seminar

UserDr Tim Jenkins (Cambridge).

HouseThe Small Parlour, Peterhouse.

ClockWednesday 05 May 2010, 19:00-20:00

Indo-European Seminar

Runic Germanic: A reading seminar

Repeats weekly at same time until end of term

UserTorsten Meissner.

HouseRoom 2.08, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 05 May 2010, 16:30-17:30

Linguistics PhD seminars

Talk B - Language-specific perspectives in reference to time

UserNorbert Vanek, University of Cambridge.

HouseGR-05, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 03 May 2010, 17:00-18:00

Chaucer Club

What can brain imaging tell us about developmental disorders of speech and language?

UserDr Kate Watkins (Centre for Functional Magnetic Imaging of the Brain, University of Oxford).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 29 April 2010, 15:30-16:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Learning semantic roles from child-directed data: insights from a probabilistic model of early language learning

UserAfra Alishahi, Department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics, Saarland University.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 27 April 2010, 16:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

Time-resolved brain imaging and the neuroscience of language

Cancelled due to travel disruption - Apologies and we hope to reschedule in the autumn!

UserProf Riitta Salmelin (Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 22 April 2010, 15:30-16:30

The Syntax/Semantics Interface

Distinguished Scholar Workshop

UserProfessor Peter Ludlow (Northwestern University).

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockMonday 12 April 2010, 10:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Latent TAG Derivations for Semantic Role Labeling

UserAnoop Sarkar, Simon Fraser University.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 12 March 2010, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Fronto-amygdala mechanisms underlying emotion regulation

UserProf Angela Roberts (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 11 March 2010, 15:30-16:30

SyntaxLab

Syntax and processing in early child Spanish resumption

UserTeresa Parodi (RCEAL).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 09 March 2010, 18:00-19:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Speech segmentation: On the processing of accents and boundaries

UserKai Alter, University of Newcastle, Institute of Neuroscience.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 09 March 2010, 16:00-17:30

SyntaxLab

On the different notions of "agreement" and "concord"

UserGiuliana Giusti (Venice).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockMonday 08 March 2010, 17:30-18:30

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

Unsupervised Morphological Segmentation with Log-Linear Models

UserDiarmuid Ó Séaghdha (University of Cambridge).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 08 March 2010, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Metaphor in language, thought, and communication

UserGerard Steen - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 05 March 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Keeping (eye)track(s) of multiple worlds

UserProf. Gerry Altmann, Department of Psychology, University of York.

HouseGR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 04 March 2010, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Morpho-phonological Processing in the Human Brain

TALK CANCELLED - Apologies for the short notice

UserProf Carsten Eulitz (Neurolinguistics Group, Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz, Germany).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 04 March 2010, 15:30-16:30

SyntaxLab

The cartography enterprise: some assumptions and consequences

UserFederico Damonte (Italian).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 02 March 2010, 18:00-19:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Time and causality in language comprehension

UserDr Silvia Gennari, University of York, Department of Psychology.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 02 March 2010, 16:00-17:30

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

Generalizing Dependency Features for Opinion Mining

UserAwais Athar (University of Cambridge).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 01 March 2010, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Human Cerebral Cortex: Cytoarchitectonics, Segregation of Function and Transmitter Receptors

Joint Chaucer Club and Zangwill Club - Note the FRIDAY date, time and venue

UserProf Karl Zilles (Vogt Institute of Brain Research, University of Dusseldorf, Germany).

HousePhysiology Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

ClockFriday 26 February 2010, 16:30-17:30

SyntaxLab

HOMO indefinite pronouns in Romance

UserRoberta D'Alessandro (Leiden).

HouseLittle Hall.

ClockThursday 25 February 2010, 10:00-11:00

SyntaxLab

Referring to yourself in self-talk

UserAnders Holmberg (Newcastle).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 23 February 2010, 16:30-18:00

SyntaxLab

Romance participle agreement

UserRoberta D'Alessandro (Leiden).

HouseLecture Block Room 4.

ClockTuesday 23 February 2010, 13:00-15:00

SyntaxLab

Eccentric agreement in Italo-Romance: looking into feature bundles

UserRoberta D'Alessandro (Leiden).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockMonday 22 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Linguistics PhD seminars

Talk A - Drift, Markedness and the Final-Over-Final Constraint

UserAlastair Appleton, Department of Linguistics.

HouseGR-05, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 22 February 2010, 17:00-18:00

Second Language Education Group

Negotiating varied proficiency levels in Lingua Franca English

UserDr Anne Ife, Department of English, Communication, Film and Media, Anglia Ruskin University.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS5.

ClockMonday 22 February 2010, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Subjectivity Recognition on Word Senses

UserKatja Markert - University of Leeds.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 19 February 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Eye get it! What eye-movements can tell us about language processing in autism spectrum disorder

UserDr Courtenay Norbury, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London.

HouseGR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 18 February 2010, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

FOXP2 as a molecular window into speech and language

UserDr Simon Fisher (Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 18 February 2010, 15:30-16:30

SyntaxLab

The middle voice and the passive voice in Hebrew

UserEdit Doron (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 16 February 2010, 18:00-19:30

Chaucer Club

Inferotemporal cortex and face recognition learning

UserProf Keith Kendrick (Babraham Institute, Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 11 February 2010, 15:30-16:30

SyntaxLab

In defence of parametric variation: the case of word-order variation

UserTheresa Biberauer (Linguistics).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 09 February 2010, 18:00-19:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

The first hours of second language acquisition: How do French native speakers perceive, comprehend and parse the Polish speech stream?

UserRebekah Rast, American University of Paris and UMR 7023 (CNRS & Université Paris 8).

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 09 February 2010, 16:00-17:30

Linguistics PhD seminars

Talk B - French language societies: purist or moderate?

UserOlivia Walsh, Linguistics Department.

HouseGR-05, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 08 February 2010, 17:00-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learnable representations for natural language

UserAlexander Clark - Royal Holloway University of London.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 05 February 2010, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

V1: Predicting the near future on the basis of the recent past

UserDr Lars Muckli (University of Glasgow, Department of Psychology).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 04 February 2010, 15:30-16:30

SyntaxLab

Determining ‘basic word order’ in New Testament Greek

UserAllison Kirk (Leiden).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 02 February 2010, 18:00-19:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Japanese two year olds use morphosyntax to learn verb meanings

UserDr Ayumi Matsuo, University of Sheffield, School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 02 February 2010, 16:00-17:30

Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars

Towards Tree-to-Tree Translation

UserDavid Chiang (University of Southern California).

HouseLR5, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockMonday 01 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

The Web as an Implicit Training Set: Application to Noun Compounds' Syntax and Semantics

UserPreslav Nakov - National University of Singapore.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 29 January 2010, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Fetal testosterone in mind

UserProf Simon Baron Cohen (Department of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 28 January 2010, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

EEG evidence for successful voluntary suppression of conscious recollection

UserZara Bergström (Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute and Department of Experimental Psychology).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2010, 12:30-13:30

SyntaxLab

A-movement and voice morphology

UserAnna Roussou (Patras).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 26 January 2010, 18:00-19:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Incidental learning of word order regularities: How abstract and how implicit?

UserDr John Williams, RCEAL, University of Cambridge.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 26 January 2010, 16:00-17:30

Linguistics PhD seminars

Talk B - Evidence for the non-verbal nature of the Old Irish Copula

UserElliott Lash, Department of Linguistics.

HouseGR-05, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 25 January 2010, 17:00-18:00

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

Dependency grammar and dependency parsing

UserLaura Rimell and Andreas Vlachos.

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 25 January 2010, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

A Bottom-up Approach to Sentence Ordering for Multi-document Summarization

UserDanushka Bollegala - University of Tokyo.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 22 January 2010, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Investigating the clinical features of casino-based gambling and its neurobiology

UserProf Robert Rogers (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 21 January 2010, 15:30-16:30

SyntaxLab

Macroparameters and minimalism

UserIan Roberts (Linguistics).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 19 January 2010, 18:00-19:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

The origin of new words in Khmer

UserDr John Haiman, Linguistics Programme, Macalester College, St Paul's, Minnesota.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 19 January 2010, 16:00-17:30

On the typology of indefinites: Neo-Aristotelian prolegomena

UserProfessor Johan van der Auwera (University of Antwerp).

HouseEnglish Faculty, room GR6-7.

ClockThursday 14 January 2010, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Institute for Language Research events

On the typology of indefinites: Neo-Aristotelian prolegomena

UserProfessor Johan van der Auwera, University of Antwerp.

HouseEnglish Faculty Lecture Room GR-06/07.

ClockThursday 14 January 2010, 17:00-18:00

Chaucer Club

Modeling of MEG and EEG: from Surface Mapping to Multimodal Imaging

Please note change of date & time for this talk only - Friday 11am-12noon

UserProf Matti S. Hämäläinen (Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockFriday 08 January 2010, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

Analysing and communicating uncertainty

PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM

UserProf David Spiegelhalter (MRC BioStatistics Unit and Statistical Laboratory, Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 17 December 2009, 15:30-16:30

Chaucer Club

Action and Language

PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM

UserProf Luciano Fadiga (Department of Human Physiology, University of Ferrara, Italy).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 10 December 2009, 15:30-16:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Cognition and spatial representations beyond language use

UserEfstathia Soroli and Maya Hickmann, Laboratoire Structures Formelles du Langage, CNRS and Universite de Paris 8.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 08 December 2009, 16:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

Decoding memories in the human hippocampus

PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM

UserProf Eleanor Maguire (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 03 December 2009, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Diffusion MRI and tractography

UserEleftherios Garyfallidis (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2009, 12:30-13:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

On-line processing of articles and clitics by Greek children with SLI

UserTheo Marinis, School of Psychology and Clinical Language, University of Reading.

HouseGR-05, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2009, 16:00-17:30

Linguistics PhD seminars

Talk A - 'Neutering' nominal inflection in Asia Minor Greek

UserPetros Karatsareas, Department of Linguistics.

HouseGR-04, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 30 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

TransType2: The Last Word

UserNikiforos Karamanis.

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 30 November 2009, 12:30-13:30

Indo-European Seminar

To be confirmed

Please note this talk will take place on a Friday, and the earlier time

UserProf. José Luis García Ramón (Cologne).

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockFriday 27 November 2009, 15:30-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Inducing Synchronous Grammars for Machine Translation

UserPhil Blunsom, University of Oxford.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 27 November 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Predication and specification in the syntax of cleft sentences

UserProf. Marcel den Dikken, The Graduate Center of The City University of New York.

HouseGR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 26 November 2009, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Navigating in a 3-d world

PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM

UserProf Kate Jeffery (Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, UCL).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 26 November 2009, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Neural mechanisms of social learning and cognitive imitation

UserChris Burke (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 25 November 2009, 12:30-13:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Discrete elements: The essence of language? Notes on the neural side of words and rules

UserFriedemann Pulvermuller, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 24 November 2009, 16:00-17:30

Sociolinguistics Seminar

Contact, simplification and complexification

All interested in any facet of sociolinguistics welcome.

UserPeter Trudgill.

HouseGR06, English Faculty.

ClockFriday 20 November 2009, 14:00-15:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Semiring Parsing without Parsing

UserAdam Lopez, University of Edinburgh.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 20 November 2009, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Change detection in auditory cortex: beyond the MMN paradigm

PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM

UserDr Maria Chait (Ear Institute, UCL).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 19 November 2009, 15:30-16:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

"Great anchor" or "grey tanker"? Speaker and listener variability in speech segmentation

UserLaurence White, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 17 November 2009, 16:00-17:30

Linguistics PhD seminars

Talk A - Perception of prosodic boundaries in Seoul Korean

UserHae-Sung Jeon, Department of Linguistics.

HouseGR-05, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 16 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

Automatic Humour Detection

UserEkaterina Shutova (University of Cambridge).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 16 November 2009, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Fine-grained sentiment analysis in text and multi-party conversation

UserTheresa Wilson, University of Edinburgh.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 13 November 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Towards Understanding the Brain Basis of Developmental Dyslexia: A Cross-Language Approach

UserProf. Usha Goswami, Centre for Neuroscience in Education, University of Cambridge.

HouseGR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 12 November 2009, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Characterizing categorical and continuous visual-object codes in man, monkey and computational models

PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM

UserDr Niko Kriegeskorte (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 12 November 2009, 15:30-16:30

SyntaxLab

Linearization and the Architecture of Grammar: a view from the Final-over-Final Constraint

UserTheresa Biberauer and Ian Roberts (Linguistics).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2009, 17:00-18:30

Indo-European Seminar

Sabrina in the Thorns: place names as evidence for language in sub-Roman Britain

UserDr David Parsons (Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic studies, Aberystwyth).

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2009, 16:30-17:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Constructions as the Basis of Syntactic Explanation

UserLaura Michaelis-Cummings, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 10 November 2009, 16:00-17:30

Sociolinguistics Seminar

Revitalisation of Sardinian: corpus and status planning

All interested in any facet of sociolinguistics welcome.

UserElena Pala.

HouseGR06, English Faculty.

ClockFriday 06 November 2009, 14:00-15:30

Chaucer Club

Brain mechanisms for ultra-rapid visual categorisation

PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM

UserProf Simon Thorpe (Brain and Cognition Research Center (CerCo), University of Toulouse, France).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 05 November 2009, 15:30-16:30

SyntaxLab

Signs all the way down: The case for construction-based syntax

UserLaura Michaelis-Cummings (University of Colorado).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2009, 17:00-18:30

Indo-European Seminar

Numerals and personal names in Ancient Italy

UserProf. Paolo Poccetti (Roma - Tor Vergata).

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2009, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Recognition of realistic auditory-visual objects: animal sounds are special

UserClara Suied (Centre for the Neural Basis of Hearing, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2009, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

The ways in which context and knowledge can assist speech comprehension, especially in challenging conditions

PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM

UserProf Ingrid Johnsrude (Department of Psychology, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 29 October 2009, 15:30-16:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

POSTPONED - Computation, Cognition and Language at RCEAL

UserJim Blevins, Paula Buttery, Jeroen Geertzen, Andrew Thwaites and Chris Veysey, RCEAL.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 27 October 2009, 16:00-17:30

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

Bayesian Word Sense Induction

UserAndreas Vlachos (University of Cambridge).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 26 October 2009, 12:30-13:30

Sociolinguistics Seminar

Why ELF won’t SIT: English as a Lingua Franca and Social Identity Theory

All interested in any facet of sociolinguistics welcome.

UserBettina Beinhoff (University of Cambridge).

HouseGR06, English Faculty.

ClockFriday 23 October 2009, 14:00-15:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Bayesian non-parametric models for parsing and translation

UserTrevor Cohn, University of Sheffield.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 23 October 2009, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Syntax in the human brain

PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM

UserProf Angela Friederici (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 22 October 2009, 15:30-16:30

SyntaxLab

No objections to backwards control?

UserElena Anagnostopoulou (Crete).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockThursday 22 October 2009, 12:00-13:30

Indo-European Seminar

The Syntax of Celtic Place Names

UserDr Oliver Padel (Cambridge and Lower Newton).

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2009, 16:30-17:30

Linguistics PhD seminars

Talk A - A two-dimensional, cross-linguistic study of speech rhythm

UserRuth Cumming, Department of Linguistics.

HouseGR-04, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 19 October 2009, 17:00-18:00

Linguistics PhD seminars

Talk B - Processing costs of non-strict versus strict comparison

UserChris Cummins (University of Cambridge).

HouseGR-04, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 19 October 2009, 17:00-18:00

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

Unsupervised Learning of Narrative Schemas and their Participants

UserDiarmuid Ó Séaghdha (University of Cambridge).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 19 October 2009, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Ontology Learning for Portuguese

UserHugo Gonçalo Oliveira, University of Coimbra, Portugal.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 16 October 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Against PP extraposition in nominals

UserProf. David Adger, Department of Linguistics, Queen Mary, University of London.

HouseG24, Law Faculty (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 15 October 2009, 19:00-20:30

Indo-European Seminar

Women's names in Greek and Latin

UserProf. Karin Stüber (Zurich).

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2009, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Hierarchical modularity in functional fMRI networks

UserDavid Meunier (Brain Mapping Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2009, 12:30-13:30

Sociolinguistics Seminar

Sociolinguistics Seminar

All interested in any facet of sociolinguistics welcome.

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseGR06, English Faculty.

ClockFriday 09 October 2009, 14:00-15:30

Chaucer Club

The contribution of structural imaging to the understanding of language networks

PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM

UserProf Cathy Price (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 08 October 2009, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Born Criminals? Social and ethical implications of research into biomarkers, development and criminality

Please note change of time for this talk only - 12pm-2pm. This talk is a joint event with Developmental Psychiatry (UoC) and the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group, with light refreshments available after the talk.

UserIlina Singh (LSE BIOS Centre).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 07 October 2009, 12:00-14:00

Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars

Bayesian Learning Approaches for Speech Recognition

UserProfessor Jen-Tzung Chien (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan).

HouseLR5, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockFriday 04 September 2009, 13:00-14:00

Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars

Factors Affecting ASR Model Self-Training

UserScott Novotney (HLTCOE and BBN Technologies).

HouseLR5, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockTuesday 01 September 2009, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Clitic Pregroups: in search for a uniform pattern of clitic movement in natural languages

UserMehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Oxford University Computing Laboratory.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockThursday 13 August 2009, 12:00-13:00

SyntaxLab

Relatives Clauses and the Diachronic Development of Irish Comparatives

This talk has been rescheduled.

UserElliott Lash (Linguistics).

HouseRoom 146, RFB.

ClockFriday 10 July 2009, 18:00-19:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Unbounded Dependency Recovery for Parser Evaluation

UserLaura Rimell, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 10 July 2009, 12:45-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

A Proposal on Evaluation Measures for RTE

UserRichard Bergmair, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 10 July 2009, 12:00-12:45

SyntaxLab

The English Indefinite Article 'One'

UserProf. Richie Kayne (NYU).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 23 June 2009, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Phonetic and phonological aspects of gemination in Lebanese Arabic

UserDr Ghada Khattab (School of Education Communication and Language Sciences, University of Newcastle).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 11 June 2009, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

The social brain

UserSarah-Jayne Blakemore (University College London).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 11 June 2009, 16:15-17:15

SyntaxLab

Quirky verbal morphology in Danish and German

UserAnne Kjeldahl (Aarhus/ Konstanz).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 09 June 2009, 18:00-19:30

SyntaxLab

The syntactic role of discourse-related functional projections

UserSilvio Cruschina (Oxford).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 02 June 2009, 18:00-19:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Semantic Knowledge of Living and Nonliving Things

UserCarrie Ankerstein, Department of English, Universitaet des Saarlandes; and Department of Human Communication Sciences, the University of Sheffield..

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 02 June 2009, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The pragmatic bases of musical meaning

UserDr Ian Cross and Ghofur Woodruff (Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 28 May 2009, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Cycling to Enrich and Enhance Dictionary Glosses

UserRoberto Navigli, University of Rome "La Sapienza".

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockThursday 28 May 2009, 12:00-13:00

RCEAL occasional seminars

Linguistic annotation and learner corpora

UserElisabeth Delais-Roussarie, CNRS - UMR 7110 / Laboratoire de linguistique formelle, Université Paris-Diderot.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockWednesday 27 May 2009, 16:00-17:30

SyntaxLab

FOFC and morphology

UserNeil Myler (Linguistics).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 26 May 2009, 18:00-19:30

Second Language Education Group

Equality before the law, irrespective of language and culture?

UserAnn Corsellis OBE.JP, Vice-President, Chartered Institute of Linguists.

HouseRoom GS5, New Faculty Building, Faculty of Education, 184, Hills Road.

ClockTuesday 26 May 2009, 17:00-18:00

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Theoretical Syntax and Practical Parsing

UserStephen Clark, University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 26 May 2009, 16:00-17:30

Linguistics PhD seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserErica Ross, Department of Linguistics.

HouseGR-05, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 25 May 2009, 17:00-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Processing Geographic Language

UserDr. Inderjeet Mani.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 22 May 2009, 12:00-13:00

Semitic Philology Lecture

Modern South Arabian

UserJanet Watson, University of Salford.

HouseFaculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Sidgwick Site), Room 8-9.

ClockThursday 21 May 2009, 17:00-18:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

DTI tractography of frontotemporal white matter pathways and language comprehension

CANCELLED - PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS TALK HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED

UserJohn Griffiths (CSLB, Department of Experimental Psychology).

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockWednesday 20 May 2009, 12:30-13:30

SyntaxLab

Smuggling and FOFC

UserProf. Ian Roberts (Linguistics).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 19 May 2009, 18:00-19:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

A subject-based approach to impersonal constructions

UserAnna Kibort, University of Surrey.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 19 May 2009, 16:00-17:30

Ibero-Romance Linguistics Seminars

Contact-induced change and bilingualism in Paraguay

Room changed

UserProf. Haralambos Symeonidis, University of Kentucky.

HouseLecture Block, room 3.

ClockMonday 18 May 2009, 17:00-18:00

Linguistics PhD seminars

The Surrey Morphology Group's Canonical Method

UserArturas Ratkus, Department of Linguistics.

HouseGR-05, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 18 May 2009, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Loan Word Typology

UserProf Bernard Comrie (Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 14 May 2009, 17:00-18:30

Linguistics PhD seminars

Tense- and Aspect-Forms and Their Referents

UserMorgan Macleod - Department of Linguistics.

HouseGR-05, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 11 May 2009, 17:00-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

BioNLP 2009 event detection task

UserAndreas Vlachos, Cambridge University.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 08 May 2009, 12:00-13:00

Ibero-Romance Linguistics Seminars

The evolution of clitics in the history of Spanish

UserDr Miriam Bouzouita, Universitat de les Illes Balears.

HouseG-R 03, English Faculty.

ClockWednesday 06 May 2009, 17:15-18:45

Linguistics PhD seminars

Modelling speech perception: mistakes and distrusts

UserMarco Piccolino-Boniforti (Department of Linguistics).

HouseGR-05, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 04 May 2009, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Dealing with disasters: the problem of polysemy

UserProf Jean Aitchison (Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 30 April 2009, 17:00-18:30

Linguistics PhD seminars

Fearful Symmetry: Allomorphy, Synchrony, Diachrony

This talk is part of the King's Occasional Lectures series

UserEmmon Bach, SOAS and University of Massachussetts, Amherst.

HouseSaltmarsh Room, King's College, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 27 April 2009, 18:00-19:00

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

Active Learning Literature Survey

UserAndreas Vlachos (Computer Laboratory).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 27 April 2009, 13:00-14:00

Indo-European Seminar

The Greek Alphabet on the Edges: Geographic and Cultic

Tea served from 4.15

UserRoger D Woodard, Buffalo New York.

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2009, 16:30-17:30

SyntaxLab

Cyclic change in the Welsh left periphery

UserDavid Willis (Linguistics).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 10 March 2009, 18:00-19:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Acquisition of the syntax-discourse interface in English and Russian speakers’ L2 Chinese wh-questions

UserEsuna Dugarova, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 10 March 2009, 16:00-17:30

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

The Puzzle of Ambiguity

UserMohan Ganesalingam (Computer Laboratory).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 09 March 2009, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Disambiguation of Biomedical Text

UserMark Stevenson - Sheffield University.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 06 March 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Eye tracking and syntactic processing in children with Williams Syndrome

UserDr Diane Nelson (Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, University of Leeds).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 05 March 2009, 17:00-18:30

SyntaxLab

The role of nominals in regulating the placement of CPs: disharmonic languages and the Final-over-Final Constraint

UserTheresa Biberauer (Linguistics/Stellenbosch) and Michelle Sheehan (Newcastle).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 03 March 2009, 18:00-19:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Vanishing Voices and the Politics of Language Policy: Reflections on long-term fieldwork in the Himalayas

UserMark Turin, University of Cambridge, Department of Social Anthropology.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 03 March 2009, 16:00-17:30

Linguistics PhD seminars

The viva

UserProf Ian Roberts, Department of Linguistics.

HouseGR-03, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 02 March 2009, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Institute for Language Research events

Learning Semantic Representation from Experience and Language

For queries about CILR and this talk please contact Dr. Luna Filipovic

UserProfessor Gabriella Vigliocco and Dr. Mark Andrews.

HouseEnglish Faculty Lecture Room GR-06/07.

ClockMonday 02 March 2009, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

What are illusions and why do we see them?

UserBeau Lotto (University College London).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 26 February 2009, 16:15-17:15

French Linguistics Research Seminars

Ethics and grammar: some problems in the analysis of French clitics

UserMr J.C. Smith (St Catherine's College, Oxford).

HouseHenry Cavendish Room, Peterhouse.

ClockTuesday 24 February 2009, 20:45-22:00

SyntaxLab

U20, verbal clusters, and fractals

UserKlaus Abels (UCL).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 24 February 2009, 18:00-19:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Categories and gradience in intonation

UserBrechtje Post, RCEAL.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 24 February 2009, 16:00-17:30

Linguistics PhD seminars

Cross-linguistic subjectivity: the subject position reconsidered.

UserAlastair Appleton, Department of Linguistics.

HouseGR-03, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 23 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Dialogue Act Prediction Using Stochastic Context-Free Grammar Induction

UserJeroen Geertzen, University of Cambridge.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 20 February 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Constructions, functional heads and unbounded dependencies

UserProf Bob Borsley (Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 19 February 2009, 17:00-18:30

Indo-European Seminar

Absolute on the rocks?: Participial concord in Roman Egypt

Tea served from 4.15

UserPatrick James, Cambridge.

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 18 February 2009, 16:30-17:30

SyntaxLab

On the structure of compound tenses

UserSonia Cyrino (Linguistics and Campinas).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 17 February 2009, 18:00-19:30

Linguistics PhD seminars

Job interviews

UserProf Ian Roberts, Department of Linguistics.

HouseGR-03, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 16 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

Unsupervised Models for Coreference Resolution

UserAndreas Vlachos (University of Cambridge).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 16 February 2009, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Signatures of conscious access: Ignition, oscillation, synchrony, causality

Joint lecture with Zangwill Club

UserStanislas Dehaene (INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, Paris).

HousePhysiology Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

ClockFriday 13 February 2009, 16:15-17:15

SyntaxLab

Reviving the transformationalist approach to dative alternations within minimalism

UserDimitrios Micheliodakis (Linguistics).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 10 February 2009, 18:00-19:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Performance-grammar correspondences and the typology of complex sentences

UserKarsten Schmidtke, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany and RCEAL.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 10 February 2009, 16:00-17:30

Linguistics PhD seminars

Open session

UserProf Ian Roberts, Department of Linguistics.

HouseGR-03, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 09 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

ASKNet: Creating and Evaluating Large Scale Integrated Semantic Networks

UserBrian Harrington, University of Oxford.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 06 February 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Quantifying dialect similarity by comparison of the lexical distribution of phonemes

UserDr. Warren Maguire (School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 05 February 2009, 17:00-18:30

Indo-European Seminar

Between tradition and linguistic reality: the riddle of Macedonian

Tea served from 4.15

UserWojciech Sowa, Krakow.

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 04 February 2009, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Memory rehabilitation using SenseCam

UserGeorgina Browne (Neuropsychology Department, Addenbrooke's).

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockWednesday 04 February 2009, 12:30-13:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Gesture, language and thought

UserSotaro Kita, University of Birmingham, UK.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 03 February 2009, 16:00-17:30

Linguistics PhD seminars

Giving conference talks

UserProf Ian Roberts, Department of Linguistics.

HouseGR-03, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 02 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Almost-unsupervised multilingual sentiment analysis

UserJohn Carroll - University of Sussex.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 30 January 2009, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

An a priori model of biased perceptual choice

UserChristopher Summerfield (University of Oxford).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 29 January 2009, 16:15-17:15

French Linguistics Research Seminars

Spoken French Corpora

UserDr. Kate Beeching (University of the West of England).

HouseHenry Cavendish Room, Peterhouse.

ClockTuesday 27 January 2009, 20:45-22:00

SyntaxLab

Scandinavian Object Shift, Remnant VP-topicalisation, and Optimality Theory

UserSten Vikner (Aarhus) and Eva Engels (Oslo).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 27 January 2009, 18:00-19:30

Linguistics PhD seminars

Word Order in the NP in Earliest Germanic

UserArturas Ratkus, Department of Linguistics.

HouseGR-03, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 26 January 2009, 17:00-18:00

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

On the nature of syntactic variation

UserLu Gram (Computer Laboratory).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 26 January 2009, 12:30-13:30

Indo-European Seminar

Gallia Graeca: mapping the linguistic landscape of Southern Gaul

Tea served from 4.15

UserAlex Mullen, Cambridge.

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 21 January 2009, 16:30-17:30

SyntaxLab

"So" and "such" and the structure of DP in Germanic

UserJohanna Wood and Sten Vikner (Aarhus).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 20 January 2009, 18:00-19:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Aspects of prosody and language in autism

UserSue Peppe, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 20 January 2009, 16:00-17:30

Linguistics PhD seminars

Organising your thesis

UserProf Ian Roberts, Department of Linguistics.

HouseGR-03, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 19 January 2009, 17:00-18:00

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

A Structured Vector Space Model for Word Meaning in Context

UserDiarmuid Ó Séaghdha (Computer Laboratory).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 19 January 2009, 12:30-13:30

SyntaxLab

On Negation, Syntax, and the Brain

UserKen Ramshøj Christensen (Aarhus).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 13 January 2009, 11:00-12:30

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

Frustratingly easy domain adaptation

UserLin Sun (Computer Laboratory).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 12 January 2009, 12:30-13:30

SyntaxLab

The collocation of European Portuguese pronouns in climbing contexts: a diachronic study

UserAroldo Andrade (Universidade Estadual de Campinas/Linguistics).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockWednesday 03 December 2008, 17:00-18:30

Syntax Reading Group

Chomsky, N. (1986). Barriers. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2-42.

UserIan Roberts and Theresa Biberauer (Linguistics).

HouseG-R03, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 02 December 2008, 18:00-19:30

Linguistics PhD seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserTom Rainsford, Department of Linguistics.

HouseSR-24, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 01 December 2008, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Variation in British Sign Language

UserDr Rachel Sutton-Spence, Centre for Deaf Studies, University of Bristol.

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 27 November 2008, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Reward and choice

UserRay Dolan (University College London).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 27 November 2008, 16:15-17:15

SyntaxLab

Fronting and exceptional verb/adverb placement in embedded clauses in Icelandic and related languages

UserÁsgrímur Angantýsson (University of Iceland).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2008, 17:00-18:30

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

The Fourth PASCAL Recognizing Textual Entailment Challenge

UserRichard Bergmair (Computer Laboratory).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Syntax Reading Group

Chomsky, N. (1981). Lectures on Government and Binding. Dordrecht: Foris, 17-127.

UserIan Roberts and Theresa Biberauer (Linguistics).

HouseG-R03, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 25 November 2008, 18:00-19:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Interference effects in the production of wh-questions in early Italian

UserTeresa Guasti, Universita di Milano Bicocca.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 25 November 2008, 16:00-17:30

Linguistics PhD seminars

Supervising undergraduates

UserProf Ian Roberts, Department of Linguistics.

HouseSR-24, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 24 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning to Adapt in Dialogue Systems: Data-driven Models for Personality Recognition and Generation

UserFrancois Mairesse, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 21 November 2008, 12:15-13:00

SyntaxLab

The development of negation in Middle Low German

UserDr Anne Breitbarth (Linguistics).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockWednesday 19 November 2008, 17:00-18:30

Indo-European Seminar

Grammatical vs. concrete use of cases in ancient Indo-European languages

Tea served from 4.15

UserProf Heinrich Hettrich, Würzburg.

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 19 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

Instance-based Evaluation of Entailment Rule Acquisition

UserAurelie Herbelot (Computer Laboratory).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 19 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Syntax Reading Group

Chomsky, N. and H. Lasnik (1977). On Filters and Control. Linguistic Inquiry 8: 425-504.

UserIan Roberts and Theresa Biberauer (Linguistics).

HouseG-R03, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 18 November 2008, 18:00-19:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Production and processing of tense morphology in English successive bilingual children

UserVicky Chondrogianni, School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 18 November 2008, 16:00-17:30

Linguistics PhD seminars

Specificational Sentences in 7th Century Irish

UserElliott Lash, Department of Linguistics.

HouseSR-24, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 17 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Adapting a WSJ-trained Lexicalized-Grammar Parser to New Domains

UserLaura Rimell, Oxford University.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 14 November 2008, 12:00-13:00

Indo-European Seminar

Cycles of negation

Tea served from 4.15

UserDr David Willis, Cambridge.

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 12 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Fundamental Frequency and the Production of Intonation in SSBE

UserMeg Zellers, RCEAL, University of Cambridge.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 11 November 2008, 16:00-17:30

Linguistics PhD seminars

Interacting with your supervisor

UserProf Ian Roberts, Department of Linguistics.

HouseSR-24, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 10 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

Chaucer Club

Neural mechanisms of sequence learning

UserBruno Averbeck (University College London).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 06 November 2008, 16:15-17:15

SyntaxLab

Music syntax: features and issues

UserMartin Rohrmeier (Music).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockWednesday 05 November 2008, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Infinite Hidden Markov Models and Applications in NLP

UserJurgen van Gael, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 31 October 2008, 12:15-13:00

DEIFYING Zionism and DEFYING Religion: DEFINING Ideological Secularization of HEBREW Terms within the ISRAELI Language

ALL WELCOME

UserAssoc Prof Ghil'ad Zuckermann, The University of Queensland, Australia.

HouseRoom 9, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockThursday 30 October 2008, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Understanding the minds of others: A psycholinguistic approach to Theory of Mind

UserDr Heather Ferguson, Department of Linguistics, University College London.

HouseLG17, Law Faculty, 10 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 30 October 2008, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Causal functional interactions between cortical areas

UserWim Vanduffel (Catholic University of Leuven).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 30 October 2008, 16:15-17:15

SyntaxLab

Can disharmonic word-order patterns be explained diachronically?

UserDr Glenda Newton (Linguistics).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2008, 17:00-18:30

Linguistics PhD seminars

The loss of grammatical gender in Cappadocian Greek

UserPetros Karatsareas, Department of Linguistics.

HouseSR-24, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 27 October 2008, 17:00-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Statistical anaphora resolution in biomedical texts

UserCaroline Gasperin, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 24 October 2008, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Remapping attention

UserPatrick Cavanagh (Université Paris Descartes).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 23 October 2008, 16:15-17:15

SyntaxLab

Processing efficiency and Russian word order

UserJohannes Kizach (University of Aarhus).

HouseG-R03, English Faculty.

ClockWednesday 22 October 2008, 17:00-18:30

Indo-European Seminar

'So, well then, I therefore argue.....'. Text structuring devices in Ancient Greek

Tea served from 4.15

UserProf. Gerry Wakker, University of Groningen.

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 22 October 2008, 16:30-17:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

The Typology of Noun Phrase Structure from a Processing Perspective

UserProf. John Hawkins, RCEAL, University of Cambridge and University of California, Davis.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 21 October 2008, 16:00-17:30

Linguistics PhD seminars

Choosing and delimiting a research topic

UserProf Ian Roberts, Department of Linguistics.

HouseSR-24, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 20 October 2008, 17:00-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

CANCELLED- NLIP SEMINAR 17th OCTOBER

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 17 October 2008, 12:00-13:00

Indo-European Seminar

Greek relative clauses: Homer and his speakers

Tea served from 4.15

UserDr Philomen Probert, Wolfson College, Oxford.

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 15 October 2008, 16:30-17:30

Linguistics PhD seminars

Why do a PhD?

UserProf Ian Roberts, Department of Linguistics.

HouseSR-24, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 13 October 2008, 17:15-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Fuzzy Logic: Fading Hype or Technology of the Future?

UserDr. Ulrich Bodenhofer, Johannes Kepler University, Austria.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 20 June 2008, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Spatial Representations in Numerical Cognition

UserMartin Fischer (School of Psychology, University of Dundee).

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockThursday 12 June 2008, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Language as a Window Into Human Nature

OPEN TO ALL: guest sign-in at the door

UserProfessor Steven Pinker, Dept of Psychology Harvard.

HouseThe Cambridge Union.

ClockTuesday 10 June 2008, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Multiword Expressions: Evaluation of Extraction Methods and their Impact on Grammar Engineering

UserValia Kordoni (LT-Lab DFKI GmbH and Dept. of Computational Linguistics, Saarland University, Germany).

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 06 June 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

How to learn and use a language

UserProf Richard Hudson (Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, UCL).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 05 June 2008, 17:00-18:30

SyntaxLab

Brazilian Portuguese and Romance syntactic complex predicates

UserSonia Cyrino (Linguistics/Visiting Scholar from Universidade Estadual de Campinas).

HouseG-R03, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 03 June 2008, 18:00-19:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Minimal pragmatic content

NOTE CHANGE OF DATE.

UserEleni Kriempardis (RCEAL).

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 03 June 2008, 16:00-17:30

SyntaxLab

Interfaces of volitionality

UserEva-Maria Remberger (Italian/Visiting Scholar from Konstanz University).

HouseG-R03, English Faculty.

ClockMonday 02 June 2008, 18:00-19:30

Linguistics PhD seminars

Supervision training

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseGR-07, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 02 June 2008, 17:00-18:00

SyntaxLab

Copy deletion, extraposition and the Final-Over-Final Constraint

UserMichelle Sheehan (Newcastle).

HouseG-R03, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 27 May 2008, 18:00-19:30

Linguistics PhD seminars

Supervision training

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseGR-07, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 26 May 2008, 17:00-18:00

Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain: Cambridge Branch

From biographical research to the concept of the Pedagogical Self: looking at educational theories from a self-psychological perspective

ALL WELCOME Please contact Patricia (pt302@cam.ac.uk) to book a place

UserProfessor Volker Kraft, Neubrandenburg, Kiel and St Edmund’s College.

HouseGS5 Faculty of Education, New Faculty Building, 184 Hills Road.

ClockThursday 22 May 2008, 17:30-19:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Contributions of phonetic detail to understanding speech processing

UserProf Sarah Hawkins (Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 22 May 2008, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Does Sudoku Require Semantic Memory?

A late amendment due to the cancellation of the previous speaker

UserKaralyn Patterson, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockThursday 22 May 2008, 16:15-17:15

SyntaxLab

Macroparameters, markedness and typological drift

UserIan Roberts (Linguistics).

HouseG-R03, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 20 May 2008, 18:00-19:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Aspects of prosody and language in autism

UserSue Peppé (Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh).

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 20 May 2008, 16:00-17:30

Zangwill Club

Morphological decomposition based on the analysis of orthography

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Kathy Rastle, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 16 May 2008, 16:30-18:00

French Linguistics Research Seminars

"Politique et exercice de la langue sous les premiers Bourbons: les conflits de pouvoir et la question de la norme dans la première moitié du XVIIe siècle".

1. Please note change of time and venue 2. This will be a joint session with the Early Modern French Seminar

UserPhilippe Caron (Université de Poitiers and Churchill College).

HouseLecturers' Common Room, Raised Faculty Building, Sidgwick Site.

ClockFriday 16 May 2008, 13:00-14:45

NLIP Seminar Series

A maximum entropy approach to preposition and determiner selection

UserRachele De Felice, University of Oxford.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 16 May 2008, 12:00-13:00

Ibero-Romance Linguistics Seminars

Ellipsis in Brazilian Portuguese and South American Spanish

UserProf. Sonia Cyrino, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp).

HouseOld Hall, Queens' College (tbc).

ClockThursday 15 May 2008, 17:30-18:30

Chaucer Club

Human evolution and the environment of evolutionary adaptedness.

UserRobert Foley (Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockThursday 15 May 2008, 16:15-17:15

Indo-European Seminar

The position of Bactrian amongst the Iranian languages

Tea served from 4.15

UserFrançois de Blois (SOAS).

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 14 May 2008, 16:30-17:30

Semitic Philology Lecture

Language Situations in Syria-Palestine between 1500 and 500 B.C.: The Emergence of Northwest Semitic

Followed by a reception. All welcome.

UserProfessor Holger Gzella, University of Leiden.

HouseRuncie Room, Faculty of Divinity, West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockTuesday 13 May 2008, 17:00-18:00

Linguistics PhD seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseGR-07, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 12 May 2008, 17:15-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Error-Aware Probabilistic Parsing

UserJennifer Foster, Dublin City University.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 09 May 2008, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

A Neural Mechanism of Decision Making, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bound.

UserMichael Shadlen (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington Medical School, Seattle).

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockThursday 08 May 2008, 16:15-17:15

Indo-European Seminar

Deciphering Bactrian: from script to syntax

Tea served from 4.15

UserNicholas Sims-Williams.

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 07 May 2008, 16:30-17:30

SyntaxLab

On NPI-licensing in the subjunctive-like da-clauses in Serbian

UserNatasa Milicevic (Tilburg).

HouseG-R03, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 06 May 2008, 18:00-19:30

SyntaxLab

Jespersen off course? Afrikaans negation - facts and implications

UserTheresa Biberauer (Linguistics).

HouseG-R03, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 29 April 2008, 18:00-19:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Features disambiguation in the comprehension and production of children's complex structure

CANCELLED

UserMaria Teresa Guasti (Università di Milano Bicocca).

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 22 April 2008, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Institute for Language Research events

CILR workshop: Forensic Linguistics

See http://www.cilr.cam.ac.uk/events/cilr/forensic.html for further details.

UserJim Fitzgerald (ex-FBI), Francis Nolan, Katrin Müller-Johnson, Luna Filipovic.

HouseEnglish Faculty Lecture Room GR-06/07.

ClockTuesday 15 April 2008, 10:00-18:00

Conference "Continuity and Change in Grammar"

Word order change in Central Coast Salish

User Patricia Shaw, Jill Campbell & Larry Grant (University of British Columbia, Vancouver).

HouseGR-05, English Faculty Building, West Road.

ClockThursday 20 March 2008, 10:00-10:40

Conference "Continuity and Change in Grammar"

SVO forever: The case of Chinese

UserRedouane Djamouri, Waltraud Paul (CNRS-EHESS, CRLAO, Paris) & John Whitman (Cornell).

HouseGR-05, English Faculty Building, West Road.

ClockWednesday 19 March 2008, 16:45-17:25

Conference "Continuity and Change in Grammar"

Contact induced conservativism in the Spanish of Catalan bilinguals in Majorca

User Andrés Enrique-Arias (Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma).

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockWednesday 19 March 2008, 15:35-16:15

Conference "Continuity and Change in Grammar"

Has anything changed at all?

UserKatrin Axel (Saarbrücken) & Helmut Weiß (Frankfurt/Main).

HouseGR-05, English Faculty Building, West Road.

ClockWednesday 19 March 2008, 11:10-11:50

Conference "Continuity and Change in Grammar"

On impossible changes and borrowings: the Final-Over-Final-Constraint

UserTheresa Biberauer (Cambridge), Anders Holmberg (Durham) & Ian Roberts (Cambridge).

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockWednesday 19 March 2008, 10:00-10:40

Conference "Continuity and Change in Grammar"

The impact of failed changes

User Gertjan Postma (Meertens Institute Amsterdam).

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockWednesday 19 March 2008, 09:20-10:00

Conference "Continuity and Change in Grammar"

Verb movement and negation in Scandinavian

User Caroline Heycock, Antonella Sorace & Zakaris Hansen (Edinburgh).

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 18 March 2008, 16:10-16:50

Conference "Continuity and Change in Grammar"

Not continuity but change: Stable stage II in Jespersen's Cycle

User Anne Breitbarth (Cambridge) & Liliane Haegeman (Lille III).

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 18 March 2008, 15:30-16:10

Pragmatics reading group

Discussion of Jaszczolt (2005)

This is the new date of the meeting announced earlier, which had to be rescheduled.

User-.

HouseNewnham College, Kennedy Building, Room 109.

ClockMonday 17 March 2008, 14:00-15:30

Chaucer Club

Insight, Attention and Error

UserIan Robertson (Trinity College, Dublin).

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockThursday 13 March 2008, 16:15-17:15

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

fMRI and multivariate analyses of neuroimaging in healthy participants

This is one of two shorter talks being given by PhD students today

UserAlexandra Woolgar.

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2008, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Stems and affixes in Polish non-fluent aphasia

This is one of two shorter talks being given by PhD students today

UserOla Jelowicka (MRC-CBU).

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2008, 12:30-13:30

SyntaxLab

Reflexive predicates in Brazilian Portuguese

UserDorothy Brito.

HouseG-R03, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 11 March 2008, 18:00-19:30

Linguistics PhD seminars

Practice presentations for BAAP meeting

UserVarious speakers, Department of Linguistics.

HouseGR-04, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 11 March 2008, 17:15-18:00

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Accent and identity in `English as a lingua franca'-communication

UserBettina Beinhoff, University of Cambridge, RCEAL PhD student..

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 11 March 2008, 16:00-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Computer-generated Cryptic Crossword Clues: exploring creative NLG

UserDavid Hardcastle, The Open University.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 07 March 2008, 12:00-13:00

Indo-European Seminar

Some interesting manifestations of the subgrouping dilemma in Armenian

Tea served from 4.15

UserBert Vaux (Cambridge).

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 05 March 2008, 16:30-17:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

The earliest stages of second language acquisition and the adult capacity for learning

UserMarianne Gullberg, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 04 March 2008, 16:00-17:30

Linguistics PhD seminars

Practice presentations for BAAP meeting

UserVarious speakers, Department of Linguistics.

HouseGR-04, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 03 March 2008, 17:15-18:00

RCEAL occasional seminars

Directive speech acts in the history of English

UserProfessor Thomas Kohnen (Englisches Seminar, Universität zu Köln).

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockFriday 29 February 2008, 16:00-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Applications of Discourse Structure for Spoken Dialogue Systems

UserDiane Litmann, University of Edinburgh.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 29 February 2008, 12:00-13:00

Lexical Richness in Speech

UserProf William Kretzschmar, University of Georgia (USA).

HouseEnglish Faculty.

ClockFriday 29 February 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Referential intentions and minimal semantics

UserProf Emma Borg (Department of Philosophy, University of Reading).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 28 February 2008, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Learning predictions and actions in the basal ganglia

UserBen Seymour (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL & Dept of Neurology, Addenbrooke's Hospital).

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockThursday 28 February 2008, 16:15-17:15

SyntaxLab

Diachrony and Deficiency

UserIan Roberts (Linguistics).

HouseG-R03, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 26 February 2008, 18:00-19:30

Indo-European Seminar

Aspect in Armenian

Tea served from 4.15

UserDaniel Kölligan (Oxford).

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2008, 16:30-17:30

SyntaxLab

Rich agreement and grammatical resumption

UserDora Alexopoulou (Lille III).

HouseG-R03, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 19 February 2008, 18:00-19:30

Linguistics PhD seminars

Mock interview

UserTom Rainsford, Department of Linguistics.

HouseGR-04, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 18 February 2008, 17:15-18:00

Second Language Education Group

Researching the impact of recent foreign language policy initiatives on provision and practice in schools in England

User Michael Evans, Linda Fisher, Caroline Filmer-Sankey, Ruth Levine, Faculty of Education, Cambridge University.

HouseGS4, New Faculty Building, Faculty of Education, 184, Hills Road.

ClockMonday 18 February 2008, 17:00-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Monte Carlo Semantics: Robust Inference and Logical Pattern Processing Based on

UserRichard Bergmair, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 15 February 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The role of statistical learning in early generative L2 grammars

UserProf Roger Hawkins (Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Essex).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 14 February 2008, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Why Greek vowels aren't boring

UserProfessor Peter Trudgill (University of East Anglia).

HouseRoom 1.02, Classics, Faculty of.

ClockThursday 14 February 2008, 17:00-18:30

SyntaxLab

The syntactic nature of wh-questions in Russian, English and Chinese

UserEsuna Dugarova (Oriental Studies).

HouseG-R03, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 12 February 2008, 18:00-19:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Noun noun constructions in English

UserMelanie Bell, RCEAL.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 12 February 2008, 16:00-17:30

Linguistics PhD seminars

Career opportunities for PhD students

UserDepartment staff, Department of Linguistics.

HouseGR-04, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 11 February 2008, 17:15-18:00

Indo-European Seminar

The chronology of Classical Armenian. Early linguistic splits.

Tea served from 4.15

UserJos Weitenberg (Leiden).

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2008, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Does Spatial attention modulate Mirror Neuron activation?

This is one of two shorter talks being given by PhD students today

UserKarolina Moutsopoulou.

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2008, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Cortical responses to object number during perception and visual short-term memory

This is one of two shorter talks being given by PhD students today

UserDanny Mitchell (MRC-CBU).

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2008, 12:30-13:30

French Linguistics Research Seminars

The Rhythm of Old French Verse

UserThomas Rainsford (Cambridge).

HouseHenry Cavendish Room, Peterhouse.

ClockTuesday 05 February 2008, 19:30-21:00

Pragmatics reading group

Pragmatics reading group

Please follow the link for details of the readings.

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseNewnham College, Kennedy Building, Room 109.

ClockMonday 04 February 2008, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning to Classify Noun-Noun Semantic Relations

UserDiarmuid O'Seaghdha, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 01 February 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Tone contrast maintenance driving phonological change in intonation grammars

UserProf Carlos Gussenhoven (Department of Linguistics, Radboud University Nijmegen).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 31 January 2008, 17:00-18:30

SyntaxLab

The limits of resumption in Welsh wh-dependencies

UserDavid Willis (Linguistics).

HouseG-R03, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 29 January 2008, 18:00-19:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

What can developmental language impairment tell us about genetic bases of syntax?

UserDorothy Bishop, University of Oxford, Department of Experimental Psychology..

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 29 January 2008, 16:00-17:30

Linguistics PhD seminars

Presentation of Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics

UserElliot Lash, Department of Linguistics.

HouseGR-04, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 28 January 2008, 17:15-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Annotating Genericity: How Do Humans Decide?- A Case Study in Ontology Extraction

UserAurelie Herbelot, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 25 January 2008, 12:00-13:00

Indo-European Seminar

The Augment in Classical Armenian

Tea served from 4.15

UserCharles de Lamberterie (University of Paris IV, Sorbonne).

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2008, 16:30-17:30

SyntaxLab

A ‘third factor’-imposed typology of (dis)harmonic languages?

UserTheresa Biberauer (Linguistics).

HouseG-R03, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 22 January 2008, 18:00-19:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Neural foundations of spoken language: word learning and ambiguity resolution

UserMatt Davis, University of Cambridge, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit..

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 22 January 2008, 16:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

Plasticity of the cerebral cortex: when, how, why?

This talk is a joint Zangwill/Chaucer Seminar on FRIDAY at 4.30pm in the Dept of Experimental Psychology

UserColin Blakemore (University of Oxford).

HouseDept of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 18 January 2008, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

'A fair knowledge of their tongue': Re-evaluating Missionary Linguistics

change of time

UserDr Marcus Tomalin (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 17 January 2008, 17:00-18:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Prediction error, causal learning and the delusional state

UserPaul Fletcher (University of Cambridge Dept of Psychiatry, Brain Mapping Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockWednesday 16 January 2008, 12:30-13:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Voice quality and forensic speaker identification

UserProfessor Francis Nolan, Department of Linguistics.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 15 January 2008, 16:00-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Cognition and reward in Parkinsons Disease

New date - postponed from 28 Nov

UserJames Rowe (MRC-CBU and Addenbrooke's Hospital).

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockWednesday 05 December 2007, 12:30-13:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

On some segmental and prosodic intricacies of `foreign accent'

UserProfessor Conxita Lleó. University of Hamburg..

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 04 December 2007, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

When and where does language change? Syntax, phonology, acquisition and diachrony

*back to usual venue*

UserDr Patrick Honeybone (Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 29 November 2007, 17:30-19:00

Indo-European Seminar

The Gaulish Inscription of Rom (Deux-Sèvres)

Tea served from 4.15

UserAlderik Blom (Cambridge).

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2007, 16:30-17:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

An efficiency theory of complexity and related phenomena

UserProfessor John Hawkins, University of Cambridge, RCEAL and University of California, Davis..

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 27 November 2007, 16:00-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

A Rebel Alliance in Babel's Aftermath: Combining rules and probabilities in machine translation

UserDan Flickinger, CSLI Stanford University and Cambridge Computer Laboratory.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 23 November 2007, 12:00-13:00

Indo-European Seminar

Aspects of Definiteness in Ancient Greek

Tea served from 4.15

UserMaria Napoli (Pisa).

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2007, 16:30-17:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Optimal Ambiguity Resolution

UserProfessor Ted Briscoe. University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory..

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 20 November 2007, 16:00-17:30

Linguistics PhD seminars

Metamessages of denial

UserAlyson Pitts, Department of Linguistics.

HouseGR-05, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 19 November 2007, 17:15-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Kernels for graph comparison

UserKarsten Borgwardt, University of Cambridge.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 16 November 2007, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Inflectional Economy

*NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE*

UserDr James Blevins (RCEAL, University of Cambridge).

HouseLG17, Law Faculty, 10 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 15 November 2007, 17:30-19:00

Indo-European Seminar

Animacy, definiteness and case in Asia Minor Greek

Tea served from 4.15

UserMark Janse (Ghent/ All Souls’ Oxford).

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2007, 16:30-17:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

How English Native Speakers Learn to Express Caused Motion in French

UserDr Henriёtte Hendriks, RCEAL University of Cambridge.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 13 November 2007, 16:00-17:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

A Computational Model of Infant Speech Development

UserDr Ian Howard. University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 06 November 2007, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Historical sociolinguistics and the transmission of language change

UserProf Terttu Nevalainen (Department of Linguistics, University of Helsinki).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 01 November 2007, 17:30-19:00

Zangwill Club

Investigating individual differences in outcomes for cochlear implantees

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Colette McKay, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 26 October 2007, 16:30-18:00

Indo-European Seminar

Comparing the sounds of accents of English, past and present

Tea served from 4.15

UserApril McMahon (Edinburgh).

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2007, 16:30-17:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Phonological Acquisition and Theory Construction

UserDr Bert Vaux. University of Cambridge, Department of Linguistics..

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 23 October 2007, 16:00-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Analysing biomedical text with the Stanford dependency grammar

UserAndrew Clegg, Birkbeck, University of London.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 19 October 2007, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The fascinating first year

UserProf David Crystal (School of Linguistics and English Language, University of Wales, Bangor).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 18 October 2007, 17:30-19:00

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Acquiring Verb Argument Structure from the Input Distribution: An Artificial Language Study

UserDr Elizabeth Wonnacott, University of Oxford, Department of Experimental Psychology.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 16 October 2007, 16:00-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Random Walks on the Click Graph

UserMartin Szummer, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 12 October 2007, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Knowing Me, Knowing You

UserNeil Macrae (University of Aberdeen).

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockThursday 11 October 2007, 16:15-17:15

Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars

Dialectal Chinese Speech Recognition

UserThomas Fang Zheng (Tsinghua University, Beijing).

HouseLR5, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockFriday 24 August 2007, 11:30-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

The ILIAD Project: Language Technology Meets Linux Troubleshooting

UserTimothy Baldwin - University of Melbourne..

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 02 July 2007, 11:00-12:00

SyntaxLab

The syntactic nature of null subject in Brazilian Portuguese

UserDr Cilene Rodriguez (Unicamp).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockThursday 28 June 2007, 18:00-19:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Measures of auditory streaming

This talk was originally scheduled for 6 June (This is one of two shorter talks being given by PhD students today)

UserSarah Thompson (MRC-CBU).

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockWednesday 27 June 2007, 13:00-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Presentation and progression of memory deficits in Mild Cognitive Impairment

This talk was originally scheduled for 6 June (This is one of two shorter talks being given by PhD students today)

UserSamrah Ahmed (MRC-CBU).

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockWednesday 27 June 2007, 12:30-13:00

EMBL-EBI Science & Society

Biology and Language 2007: An EMBL-EBI Science & Society Symposium

UserWilliam Marslen-Wilson (Chair).

HouseRobinson College.

ClockThursday 21 June 2007, 13:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Annotating and Learning Compound Noun Semantics

UserDiarmuid O'Seaghdha - University of Cambridge.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 20 June 2007, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Annotation of Chemical Named Entities

UserPeter Corbett - University of Cambridge.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 18 June 2007, 11:30-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Semantic enrichment of journal articles using chemical named entity recognition

UserColin Batchelor - Royal Society of Chemistry.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 18 June 2007, 11:30-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Semi-supervised Training of a Statistical Parser from Unlabeled Partially-bracketed Data

UserJohn Carroll - Department of Informatics, University of Sussex.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 15 June 2007, 15:00-16:00

Linguistics PhD seminars

Social event: punting and picnic

Note different time: 4.30 pm, and going into the evening

UserEveryone.

HouseTrinity College punts, weather allowing - see "Abstract".

ClockWednesday 13 June 2007, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Institute for Language Research events

CILR meeting

Please see www.cilr.cam.ac.uk for agenda

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 07 June 2007, 16:00-17:00

SyntaxLab

Events, Islands, and Cyclicity

UserRobert Truswell (UCL).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 29 May 2007, 18:00-19:30

Workshop "Formalism and Functionalism in Negation"

Negative Concord inside DP

UserLiliane Haegeman, Université Charles de Gaulle, Lille III.

House SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockFriday 18 May 2007, 16:15-17:15

SyntaxLab

Speculations on the syntax of adverbial clauses

NB: This talk is also part of the Li8 (Structure of English) course.

UserProf. Liliane Haegeman (Université Charles de Gaulle, Lille III/ STL - UMR 8163 CNRS).

HouseG-R06, English Faculty.

ClockFriday 18 May 2007, 10:00-12:00

Linguistics PhD seminars

Geminates and 'super-geminates' in Cypriot Greek

UserSpyros Armosti, Dept. of Linguistics.

HouseGR-04, English Faculty Building.

ClockWednesday 16 May 2007, 16:15-17:15

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Syntactic nuts, Core and Periphery, and Universal Grammar

UserPeter Culicover, The Ohio State University and Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen.

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 15 May 2007, 16:00-17:30

Graduate seminar based on: Peretz, I. (2006). The nature of music from a biological perspective. Cognition, 100, 1-32.

http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2006-7/peretz.html CHANGE OF TIME AND VENUE

UserProfessor Isabelle Peretz (Brain, Music and Sound, University of Montreal).

HouseCRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX.

ClockThursday 10 May 2007, 16:30-18:30

Ibero-Romance Linguistics Seminars

Contact phenomena between Chileno and Mapudungun

UserDr Fernando Zúñiga, Universität Zürich.

HouseLecture Block, room 5.

ClockThursday 10 May 2007, 10:00-12:00

Ibero-Romance Linguistics Seminars

Comparative grammar of Latin American varieties

UserDr Fernando Zúñiga, Universität Zürich.

HouseLecture Block, room 5.

ClockWednesday 09 May 2007, 14:00-16:00

Ibero-Romance Linguistics Seminars

Introduction to Chileno Spanish

UserDr Fernando Zúñiga, Universität Zürich.

HouseLecture Block, room 5.

ClockTuesday 08 May 2007, 14:00-16:00

Pragmatics Reading Group

UserText: Kent Bach (2004) 'Minding the gap' (http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~kbach/).

HouseNewnham College, Strachey East, ground floor, room A.

ClockMonday 07 May 2007, 17:00-18:00

Semitic Philology Lecture

The South Arabian Origin of Ethiosemitic

The Annual Semitic Philology Lecture

UserProfessor Rainer Voigt, Freie Universität, Berlin.

HouseRuncie Room, Faculty of Divinity, West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockFriday 04 May 2007, 17:00-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Term Mining in Biomedicine

UserSophia Ananiadou - University of Manchester.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 04 May 2007, 12:00-13:00

Ibero-Romance Linguistics Seminars

The Linguistic Atlas of the Iberian Peninsula and Spanish Dialectology

UserDr David Heap, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.

HouseOld Kitchens, Queens' College.

ClockThursday 03 May 2007, 17:30-18:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Perceiving grammatical regularities

UserDoug Saddy (University of Reading).

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 01 May 2007, 16:00-17:30

First Cambridge-Nanzan Syntax Workshop

The question particle in Finnish

UserProf. Anders Holmberg (Newcastle).

HouseSidgwick Hall, Newnham College.

ClockTuesday 01 May 2007, 10:15-11:15

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Automatic Lexical Acquisition from the CHILDES Database

UserPaula Buttery and Anna Korhonen (RCEAL).

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 24 April 2007, 16:00-17:30

Linguistics PhD seminars

On the role of imitation in learning to pronounce

Note change in start time: 4 pm, not 4.15 pm.

UserPiers Messum, University College London.

HouseGR-04, English Faculty Building.

ClockWednesday 18 April 2007, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Assessment

Motivating language learners: the role of assessment

Please email thenetwork@cambridgeassessment.org.uk to book a place

UserNeil Jones (Cambridge ESOL).

HouseHughes Hall, Mortimer Road, Cambridge, UK.

ClockThursday 12 April 2007, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The Cognitive Heterogeneity of Parkinson's Disease

Amended title from that originally posted

UserCaroline Williams-Gray, Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair.

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockWednesday 21 March 2007, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Institute for Language Research events

CamLing 2007 - day 2

http://www.srcf.ucam.org/camling/programme.html

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseComputer Laboratory, West Cambridge Site.

ClockWednesday 21 March 2007, 09:30-17:30

Cambridge Institute for Language Research events

CamLing 2007 - day 1

http://www.srcf.ucam.org/camling/programme.html

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseComputer Laboratory, West Cambridge Site.

ClockTuesday 20 March 2007, 09:30-18:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Human memory: insights from the past and challenges for the future

We regret that this talk has been cancelled.

UserKim Graham, Wales Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Cardiff University & MRC-CBU.

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2007, 12:30-13:30

SyntaxLab

Parameters, lexicon and categorial specification

UserEdward Wilford (Linguistics Dept).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 13 March 2007, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Discourse variation, grammaticalisation, and stuff like that

UserProf Jenny Cheshire (Department of Linguistics, Queen Mary, University of London).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 08 March 2007, 17:00-18:30

The Altaic Hypothesis and the Limits of Language Classification

UserDr Stefan Georg (Bonn).

House1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2007, 16:30-17:30

Linguistics PhD seminars

Verbal Nouns as a-categorial roots

UserEdward Wilford (Dept. of Linguistics).

HouseGR-04, English Faculty Building.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2007, 16:15-17:15

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Can approach-avoidance paradigms inform debates about embodied cognition?

This is one of two shorter talks being given by PhD students today

UserAdle Pacini, MRC-CBU.

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2007, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Attention effects in a neuronal model of the language cortex

This is one of two shorter talks being given by PhD students today

UserMax Garagnani, MRC-CBU.

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2007, 12:30-13:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Later language development: How literacy impacts grammar

Note change of venue

UserProfessor Harriet Jisa (Lyon).

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 06 March 2007, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Institute for Language Research events

The Life History of a Sound Change

UserProfessor William Labov (University of Pennsylvania).

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockMonday 05 March 2007, 15:30-17:00

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Title to be confirmed

CANCELLED

UserDr Paula Buttery& Dr Anna Korhonen (RCEAL).

HouseGR-05, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 27 February 2007, 16:00-17:30

SyntaxLab

Agree constrains Merge: the case of categorial features

Room changed

UserDr Phoevos Panagiotidis.

HouseG-R06, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 20 February 2007, 18:00-19:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Title to be confirmed

CANCELLED

UserMelanie Bell (RCEAL).

HouseGR-05, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 20 February 2007, 16:00-17:30

Yes/no-questions in Romance: interrogative particles and word order

UserSilvio Cruschina (University of Cambridge).

HouseThirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College.

ClockMonday 19 February 2007, 17:30-18:30

The imperative in Italo-Romance

UserMartin Maiden (University of Oxford).

HouseThirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College.

ClockMonday 19 February 2007, 17:30-18:30

Pruning and Grafting the Celtic Family Tree

UserProfessor Peter Schrijver, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.

HouseGR-05, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 19 February 2007, 17:00-18:00

Babylonian babbled beyond Babel, or code-switching in Neo-Assyrian Assyria

UserMartin Worthington (Cambridge).

House1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 14 February 2007, 16:30-17:30

SyntaxLab

Expletives in Existentials: English 'there' and German 'da'

UserJutta Hartmann (Tilburg).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 13 February 2007, 18:00-19:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

The role of frequency in morphological systems

Change of venue to GR-06/07

UserGorazd Kert (RCEAL).

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 13 February 2007, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Compounding in English and the nature of attribution

Dinner with speaker afterwards at Sala Thong (Thai); email apc38 if interested

UserProf Heinz Giegerich (Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 08 February 2007, 17:00-18:30

Complementation and Modality in Earlier Egyptian

UserDr Sami Uljas (Cambridge).

House1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 07 February 2007, 16:30-17:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Having a closer look at Multiword Expressions

CANCELLED

UserAline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) and University of Bath).

HouseGR-05, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 06 February 2007, 16:00-17:30

SyntaxLab

Structure and linearisation in disharmonic word orders

UserDr Theresa Biberauer and Professor Ian Roberts (Linguistics Dept).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 30 January 2007, 18:00-19:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Behaviours of wh-words in English speakers’ L2 Chinese wh-questions: variability at different L2 interfaces.

Room changed to GR-06/07

UserDr Boping Yuan (Oriental Studies, Cambridge).

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 30 January 2007, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Some aspects of verb morphology and syntax in Modern Aramaic

*Back to usual venue*

UserProf Geoffrey Khan (Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 25 January 2007, 17:00-18:30

French Linguistics Research Seminars

Is French a language without accents after all?

UserBrechtje Post (University of Cambridge).

HouseCouncil Room, New Hall.

ClockWednesday 24 January 2007, 20:30-21:30

Ibero-Romance Linguistics Seminars

On possessives in different varieties of Portuguese

UserDr Ana Castro, Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal/Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

HouseErasmus room, Queens' College.

ClockWednesday 24 January 2007, 18:00-19:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

The English Profile Project: upgrading the Cambridge Learner Corpus and future directions for research.

CHANGE OF VENUE TO GR06/07. This talk is a dry-run for a presentation to be given at the EPP annual meeting.

UserProfessor John Hawkins, Professor Ted Briscoe, Dr Paula Buttery, Caroline Williams and Oeistein Andersen..

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 23 January 2007, 16:00-17:30

SyntaxLab

On Feature Inheritance: The Nature of Agreement and Anti-Agreement

UserDr. Hamid Ouali (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee).

HouseG-R04, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 16 January 2007, 18:00-19:30

RCEAL occasional seminars

Agreement Resolution from an Optimality Theory Perspective

UserProfessor Bill Badecker (Johns Hopkins University).

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockThursday 07 December 2006, 16:00-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Emotion from brain identity

Please note that this is a late addition to the Seminar list

UserMitch Valdes-Sosa, Cuban Neuroscience Center.

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockWednesday 06 December 2006, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Generating appropriate referring expressions in news summaries

UserAdvaith Siddharthan, University of Cambridge.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 01 December 2006, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Differentiating morphology, syntax and meaning in the human brain

*NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE*

UserProf Lorraine K Tyler (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge).

HouseLG17, Law Faculty, 10 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 30 November 2006, 17:00-18:30

Linguistics PhD seminars

Phonetic differences between function and content words affect intelligibility.

This talk has been postponed to 24/1/07.

UserRachel Baker (Linguistics Department).

HouseGR-05, English Faculty Building.

ClockWednesday 29 November 2006, 16:15-17:00

RCEAL occasional seminars

On the interpretation of frequency effects in comprehension and production.

UserHarald Baayen (MPI for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands).

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockWednesday 29 November 2006, 16:00-17:30

Applying linguistics - language use and the process of reconstructing serious crimes through language

UserSilke Kirschner (Central Police Training and Development Authority (Centrex)).

HouseRoom 1S3 New Faculty of Education Building, Hills Road.

ClockMonday 27 November 2006, 17:00-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Generation of Referring Expressions: Evaluating some standard algorithms

UserIelka van der Sluis, University of Aberdeen.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 24 November 2006, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Do S-cones contribute to the perception of brightness?

The talk advertised for today (Dr Kia Nobre) had to be canceled, but we are fortunate to have Prof Wehrhahn step in at the last moment

UserProf Christian Wehrhahn, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany and the Visual Center Lab at the Salk Institute in the US..

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockThursday 23 November 2006, 16:15-17:30

Syntactic Borrowing from English into French in News Dispatches

UserMairi McLaughlin (St John's College, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room, Buckingham House, New Hall.

ClockWednesday 22 November 2006, 20:30-21:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Title to be confirmed

THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

UserDr Richard Breheny (Department of Linguistics, UCL).

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 21 November 2006, 16:00-17:30

Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars

Tracheoesophageal Speech Repair

UserArantza Del Pozo, CUED Machine Intelligence Laboratory.

HouseLR6, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockMonday 20 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Evaluating Centering for Information Ordering using Corpora

UserNikiforos Karamanis, University of Cambridge.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 17 November 2006, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Problems with phonemes

*NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE*

UserDr John Coleman (Phonetics Laboratory, University of Oxford).

HouseLG17, Law Faculty, 10 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 16 November 2006, 17:00-18:30

Zangwill Club

Listening to a dialect: Dynamics of phonetic and lexical representations

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Núria Sebastián Gallés, Department of Psychology, Barcelona University, Spain.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Experimental Psychology, Department of.

ClockFriday 10 November 2006, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Fuzzy Language Models and Closed Domain Question Answering using Fuzzy Semantics

UserRichard Bergmair, University of Cambridge.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 10 November 2006, 12:00-13:00

SyntaxLab

A Deletion Analysis of Null Subjects: A Case Study in French

UserProf. Ian Roberts (Linguistics).

HouseG-R05, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 07 November 2006, 18:00-19:30

'Slang/Argot: The Making of a Dictionary. Franco-British Obsessions Observed Through Non-standard Language Variations

Note change of day.

UserDeclan Mc Cavana (Ecole Polytechnique).

HouseCouncil Room, New Hall.

ClockMonday 06 November 2006, 20:30-21:30

NLIP Seminar Series

The Weakest Link: Detecting and Correcting Errors in Learner English

UserPete Whitelock, Sharp Laboratories.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 03 November 2006, 12:00-13:00

Pour une approche rhétorique et interactive du discours politique: l'éthos de Nicolas Sarkozy

Note change of day.

UserCatherine Kerbrat-Orecchioni (Lyon 2).

HouseCouncil Room, New Hall.

ClockThursday 02 November 2006, 20:30-21:30

Linguistics PhD seminars

Denying the irony: pragmatic ambiguities in corpora

UserAlyson Pitts (Linguistics Department).

HouseGR-05, English Faculty Building.

ClockWednesday 01 November 2006, 16:15-17:00

Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars

Use of Linguistic Information and Reordering Strategies for Ngram- based Statistical Machine Translation

UserAdria de Gispert, TALP Research Centre – Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain.

HouseLR5, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockTuesday 31 October 2006, 13:00-14:00

SyntaxLab

Reconsidering Recursion in Syntactic Theory

UserDr Marcus Tomalin (Speech Group, Engineering).

HouseG-R05, English Faculty.

ClockTuesday 24 October 2006, 18:00-19:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Acquiring Ontological Relationships from Wikipedia Using RMRS

Short talk (20 minutes) to be presented at International Semantic Web Conference workshop

UserAurelie Herbelot, University of Cambridge.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockTuesday 24 October 2006, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

What makes real-world scenes special? Evidence from fMRI

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor John Henderson, School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Experimental Psychology, Department of.

ClockFriday 20 October 2006, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Putting Linguistics into Speech Recognition: The Regulus Grammar Compiler

UserManny Rayner, Powerset.com/Geneva University.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 20 October 2006, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Concord, convergence and accommodation in bilingual children

UserProf Andrew Radford (Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 19 October 2006, 17:00-18:30

'Rude, moi! French and British in interaction'

UserChristophe Gagne (Churchill College, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room, Buckingham House, New Hall.

ClockWednesday 18 October 2006, 20:30-21:30

RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia

Language and the Flow of Information

UserProfessor Torben Thrane (Aarhus School of Business).

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 17 October 2006, 16:00-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Multiple Instance Learning for Natural Language Tasks

UserMark Craven, University of Cambridge (visiting).

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 13 October 2006, 12:00-13:00

Reading is affected by text you see

UserProfessor Arnold Wilkins (University of Essex).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC-CBU.

ClockThursday 12 October 2006, 16:15-17:15

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