Next week's CLS talk: Sandro Pezzelle -- 2nd April, 4pm, F1.15, SP 107
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Ekaterina Shutova
Mar 25, 2019, 9:20:49 AM3/25/19
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Dear all,
Next week we have a seminar by our own Sandro Pezelle. The talk will
take place at 4pm on Tuesday, 2 April in F1.15.
The abstract and title are below. Hope to see many of you there!
If you'd like to meet with Sandro, please contact him directly.
Best,
Katia
Sandro Pezzelle, University of Amsterdam
Title: Grounding Vague Expressions in Vision
2nd April 2019, 4pm, F1.15, SP 107.
Abstract:
Expressions like "most" or "big" are known to be vague, that is, their
interpretation can be borderline and not generally-agreed. Moreover,
their use is context-dependent, in a way that an entity can be "big" in
one context, but not in another. Interestingly, the meaning of these
expressions is shown to be mostly quantitative when they are used to
refer to entities (or sets of entities) in real-world contexts; for
example, "few" is used by speakers only to refer to a given range of
(low) proportions. By exploiting state-of-the-art, cognitively-inspired
computational techniques, I tackle the issue of modelling the meaning of
vague expressions from their use in grounded contexts, specifically
Vision. In the first, longer part of the talk, I will provide an
overview of my recent investigations on vague quantifiers ("few",
"many", "all", etc.), both at the behavioural and computational level.
In the second part, shorter, I will present ongoing research on gradable
adjectives ("big", "small", etc.). Any feedback and comment is more than
welcome!
Next week we have a seminar by our own Sandro Pezelle. The talk will
take place at 4pm on Tuesday, 2 April in F1.15.
The abstract and title are below. Hope to see many of you there!
If you'd like to meet with Sandro, please contact him directly.
Best,
Katia
Sandro Pezzelle, University of Amsterdam
Title: Grounding Vague Expressions in Vision
2nd April 2019, 4pm, F1.15, SP 107.
Abstract:
Expressions like "most" or "big" are known to be vague, that is, their
interpretation can be borderline and not generally-agreed. Moreover,
their use is context-dependent, in a way that an entity can be "big" in
one context, but not in another. Interestingly, the meaning of these
expressions is shown to be mostly quantitative when they are used to
refer to entities (or sets of entities) in real-world contexts; for
example, "few" is used by speakers only to refer to a given range of
(low) proportions. By exploiting state-of-the-art, cognitively-inspired
computational techniques, I tackle the issue of modelling the meaning of
vague expressions from their use in grounded contexts, specifically
Vision. In the first, longer part of the talk, I will provide an
overview of my recent investigations on vague quantifiers ("few",
"many", "all", etc.), both at the behavioural and computational level.
In the second part, shorter, I will present ongoing research on gradable
adjectives ("big", "small", etc.). Any feedback and comment is more than
welcome!
Beinborn, Lisa
May 8, 2019, 4:21:00 AM5/8/19
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Hi everyone,
next week's CLS talk is coordinated with a lecture by the Amsterdam Brain and Cognition Center (https://abc.uva.nl/content/events/lectures/2019/05/abc-lecture---poeppel.html). We welcome David Poeppel, director of the MPI on empirical aesthetics in Frankfurt and professor at New York University. He works on cognitive neuroscience of speech perception and language comprehension. Notice the unusual place on Roeterseiland Campus!
David Poeppel, New York University and Max-Planck-Institute
Title: Brain rhythms and the encoding of structure
Jointly with the ABC lecture: 14th May 2019, 4pm, REC M 1.02
How language, music, and other complex sequences are represented and computed in the human brain is a fundamental area of brain research that continues to stimulate as much research as it does vigorous debate. Some classical questions (and persistent puzzles)
- highlighting the tension between neuroscience and cognitive science research - concern the role of structure and abstraction. Recent findings from human neuroscience, across various techniques (e.g. fMRI, MEG, ECoG), suggest that the brain supports hierarchically
structured abstract representations.
New data on the role of brain rhythms show that such neural activity appears to underpin the tracking of structure-building operations. If the new approaches are on the right track, they invite closer relations between fields and better linking hypotheses
between the foundational questions that animate both the neurosciences and the cognitive sciences.
Best regards,
Lisa
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Beinborn, Lisa
May 14, 2019, 9:09:45 AM5/14/19
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Just a quick reminder that this is today, but not at ILLC. The talk will take place at the campus in the city centre.
Hope to see you there,
Lisa
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