Language and Probability: The CLASP Inauguration Workshop

• Event: Workshop
• Date: 27 August 2015
• Duration: 1 day
• Venue: Gothia Towers (Gothenburg)

• Registration
• Speakers and Abstracts
• Videos

Programme

• 09:00 - 09:30 Introducing CLASP (Shalom Lappin, Christina Thomsen Thörnqvist (Prefekt, FLOV), Margareta Hallberg (Dean, Faculty of Arts), Grants and Innovation Office representative)
• 09:30 - 10:00 Coffee break
• 10:00 - 10:30 Shalom Lappin, King’s College London and University of Gothenburg: A Probabilistic View of Grammaticality Joint work with Jey Han Lau and Alexander Clark, King’s College London
• 10:30 - 11:00 Alex Clark, King’s College London: Learning Syntactic Structure: Weak Learning, Strong Learning and Canonical Grammars
• 11:00 - 11:15 Break
• 11:15 - 11:45 Aarne Ranta, Chalmers University of Technology: What are grammars good for?
• 11:45 - 12:15 Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University: Towards a Universal Grammar for Natural Language Processing
• 12:15 - 13:00 Lunch
• 13:00 - 13:30 Charalambos Themistocleous, University of Gothenburg and Princeton University: Learning Linguistic Categories from Acoustic Structure: Towards a Speech Time Frequency Model
• 13:30 - 14:00 Lars Borin, University of Gothenburg: Multi-word expressions - eels in sheep’s clothing?
• 14:00 - 14:15 Break
• 14:15 - 14:45 Devdatt Dubhashi, Chalmers University of Technology: Distributed representations in NLP
• 14:45 - 15:15 Chris Howes and Ellen Breitholtz, University of Gothenburg: Incremental Reasoning in Dialogue (IncReD), work with Robin Cooper
• 15:15 - 15:45 Coffee break
• 15:45 - 16:15 Staffan Larsson, University of Gothenburg: Vagueness and Learning in Probabilistic TTR, work with Raquel Fernandez
• 16:15 - 16:45 Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin: Semantics as a Heterogeneous Mess, and How to Reason Over It
• 16:45 - 17:00 Break
• 17:00 - 17:30 Simon Dobnik, University of Gothenburg: On Interfacing Language, Spatial Perception, Dialogue, and Cognition
• 17:30 - 18:00 Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, University of Gothenburg: Modern Type Theoretical Semantics, Inference and Probability Theory
• 18:00 - 18:15 Robin Cooper, University of Gothenburg: Final remarks