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2014
June
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Prof. Shieber, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Survey: Synchronous grammar applications in language processing
-Abstract: Concluding the series on synchronous grammars, I describe how synchronous grammars, and in particular probabilistic versions, can be applied to a variety of natural-language processing problems such as generation, machine translation, and sentence compression. Bio: Stuart Shieber is a Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University. His primary research field is computational...
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Prof. Shieber, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Seminar: What's so great about compositionality?
-Abstract: Compositionality is the tenet that the meaning of an expression is determined by the meanings of its immediate parts along with their method of combination. The semantics of artificial languages (such as programming languages or logics) are uniformly given compositionally, so that the notion doesn’t even arise in that literature....
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Prof. Shieber, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Tutorial: Synchronous Grammars Introduced
-Abstract: Just as grammars are formal models of languages, synchronous grammars are formal models of relations between languages. They have applications in natural-language interpretation and generation, machine translation, sentence compression, and other areas. I will introduce and motivate the design of synchronous grammars, showing how a particular base grammar formalism, tree-adjoining...
May
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Royal Society of Edinburgh inductee Prof. Barbara Grosz on "Health Care Coordination and Health Literacy: The Need for Smart Multi-agent Systems"
-Distinguished Visitor: Prof. Grosz will be inducted at the Royal Society of Edinburgh as a Corresponding Fellow The RSE has 1600 Fellows, of which 66 are Corresponding Fellows. Prof. Grosz will be the fifth woman Corresponding Fellow. Abstract: I recently argued that Turing, were he alive now, would conjecture differently than he did in...
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Chemistry Departmental Seminar
-Dr Jan-Willem Bos (Heriot-Watt University)
April
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Computing Science Seminar. Everson on "Visualising and understanding multi-objective solutions and league tables"
-Abstract: Recent advances in evolutionary optimisation algorithms mean that it is possible to find approximations to the optimal trade-off between several objectives. With only two or three objectives visualising the trade-off and relations between solutions is straightforward, but with more objectives understanding the solutions and available trade-offs is difficult. This talk will briefly...
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Computing Science Seminar. Elsenbroich on "Modelling Extortion Rackets"
-Abstract: Extortion is a different kind of crime to other property crime such as burglary, robbery or even fraud. What makes extortion unique is a) the long-term relationship of the criminal with the victim and b) the reliance on the threat of future punishment rather than actual punishment. The two...
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Computing Science Seminar. Alexopoulos on "Detecting, Analyzing and Representing Vagueness in Ontologies for Facilitating Reuse"
-Abstract: The emergence in the last years of initiatives like the Linked Open Data (LOD) has led to a significant increase of the amount of structured semantic data on the Web. Nevertheless, the wider reuse of such data isinhibited by a variety of factors, ranging from the quality of the...
March
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Natural Language Generation Seminar. Unger on "Conceptually scoped, modular natural language interfaces"
-Abstract: Natural language plays an increasingly important role as interface to existing services and data. However, a number of characteristics of today’s language technology make it hard to be adopted by non-linguistically skilled developers. I present an architecture that supports the easy adoption of language technology into existing applications, building...
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Computing Science Seminar. Unger on "Question answering over RDF data"
-Abstract: While more and more RDF data is available, the question of how typical web users can access this body of knowledge becomes of crucial importance. There is thus a growing amount of research on natural language interfaces that allow end users to profit from the expressive power of Semantic...