Seminar Archive

2018

May

• Computing Science Seminar. Soto on Using Fuzzy Sets in Data-to-Text systems: A High-Level View of Past and Current Projects

  23 May 2018, 14:00 - 15:00

  Venue: Room 311, Meston Building

• Computing Science Seminar. Zukerman on Interacting with Smart Devices: Acceptability and Trust

  02 May 2018, 14:00 - 15:00

  Venue: Room 311, Meston Building

March

• Design of Heterogeneous Catalysts for Sustainable Technologies

  07 March 2018, 13:00 - 14:00

  Royal Society of Chemistry Sustainable Energy Award 2017 http://www.rsc.org/ScienceAndTechnology/Awards/SustainableEnergyAward/2017-Winner.asp

2016

April

• Computing Science Seminar. Bowles on "Logic Approaches for Health Care"

  13 April 2016, 14:00 - 15:00

  Abstract: This talk shows how two different logic-based approaches can be used to (1) detect conflicts in the treatment of multiple chronic conditions, and (2) modelling cancer and tumour growth. (1) We developed an automated approach focusing on the composition of (static or behavioural) design models via constraint solvers. This approach is...

March

• Computing Science Seminar. Moncur on"The role of digital technologies in transitional life events"

  16 March 2016, 13:00 - 14:00

  Abstract: Digital technologies are now used across the human lifespan. In this seminar, I'll discuss my HCI research that explores the current roles of digital technologies across transitional human life events (becoming an adult, becoming a parent, breaking up, retiring, end of life ), and the ways in which digital technologies could be designed...

• Computing Science Seminar. de Ruiter on "How Not to Study Interaction"

  09 March 2016, 14:00 - 15:00

  Abstract: In this talk I will argue that human interaction cannot be studied properly using the standard experimental methods that have been successful in other areas of the cognitive sciences. Of the many problems with these methods, I will focus on two important ones: (a) the trade-off between experimental control and ecological validity, and (b) profound...

• Computing Science Seminar. Rovatsos on "Diversity-Aware AI - the next frontier?"

  02 March 2016, 14:30 - 15:30

  Abstract: Recently, AI has produced impressive advances mostly by following a "standard model" based on data-driven exploration of large solution spaces and optimisation toward a well-defined objective function. Arguably, this process model has little in common with human intelligence, where objectives are often vaguely defined and conflicting, satisficing behaviour is often...

2015

October

• Computing Department Seminar. Hautli-Janisz on "Annotating aspects of deliberation in political negotiations"

  20 October 2015, 14:00 - 15:00

  Abstract: This talk revolves around the concept of deliberation and whether and how it can be automatically manifested in discourse. One of the key points of the talk is the operationalization of this rather abstract notion, which orignates from political science and assumes that participants in a multilog, i.e. a...

2014

August

• 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...