Event Archive

2014

August

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  Cafe Scientifique - Family Day Special

  16 August 2014, 12:00 - 16:00

  Get the whole family together for an afternoon of fascinating, hands-on science.

• Computing Science Seminar. Pipes on "Emerging Technologies at IBM"

  05 August 2014, 14:00 - 15:00

  Abstract: Based at IBM's Hursley Labs in the UK, the Emerging Technology team works with clients to bridge the divide between new technology and mainstream software products. The team combines direct customer experience with innovation and first-of-a-kind technology to produce solutions that solve real business challenges. This talk will introduce the...

• Computing Science Seminar. Elsner on "Visual complexity and referring expression generation"

  01 August 2014, 14:00 - 15:00

  Abstract: An observer's perception of a visual scene influences the language they use to describe it--- which objects they choose to mention and how they characterize the relationships between them. In this talk, I will discuss some experiments on the relationship between visual perception and reference. Using a corpus of descriptions...

July

• Computing Science Seminar. Caminada on "Strong Admissibility Revisited"

  16 July 2014, 14:00 - 15:00

  Abstract We re-examine the concept of strong admissibility, as was originally introduced by Baroni and Giacomin. We examine the formal properties of strong admissibility, both in its extension-based and in its labelling-based form. Moreover, we show that strong admissibility plays a vital role in discussion-based proof procedures for grounded semantics. In...

June

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  Cafe Scientifique - Danger High Voltage!

  18 June 2014, 19:00 - 23:59

  Learn more about inventor Nikola Tesla and enjoy a thrilling demonstration of a Tesla coil.

• Prof. Shieber, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Survey: Synchronous grammar applications in language processing

  13 June 2014, 11:00 - 12:00

  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...

• Prof. Shieber, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Seminar: What's so great about compositionality?

  12 June 2014, 11:00 - 12:00

  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....

• Prof. Shieber, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Tutorial: Synchronous Grammars Introduced

  11 June 2014, 11:00 - 12:00

  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

• Royal Society of Edinburgh inductee Prof. Barbara Grosz on "Health Care Coordination and Health Literacy: The Need for Smart Multi-agent Systems"

  21 May 2014, 14:00 - 15:00

  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...

• Chemistry Departmental Seminar

  14 May 2014, 12:00 - 13:00

  Dr Jan-Willem Bos (Heriot-Watt University)