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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 21 May 2003, vol. 18:34
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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21 May 2003 Stanford Vol. 18, No. 34
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A weekly publication of the
Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI)
Stanford University, Ventura Hall, Stanford, CA 94305-4115
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/
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ACTIVITIES FROM 21 MAY 2003 TO 30 MAY 2003
WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2003
12 noon Psychology Developmental Brownbags
Bldg. 380:381U
Title to be announced
Deanne Perez-Granados
School of Education
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/news.html#dev_brownbag
3:00pm Reuters Foundation Digital Vision Program Seminar
email for location mailto:digitalvision@csli.stanford.edu
Patrick P. Gelsinger
Vice President Chief Technology Officer, Intel
http://reuters.stanford.edu/seminar_speakers.html
3:45pm Psychology Department Colloquium
Jordan Hall 420:041
"Of Songs and Synapses: a Neural Model of Avian Vocal Learning"
Sebastian Seung
MIT
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/news.html
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
"The Internet Bookmobile: Public Access to Publishing"
Ashley Rindsberg
The Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
Abstract below
8:00pm David H. Liu Memorial Lectures in Design
Annenberg Auditorium, Cummings Art Bldg.
"LOT/EK Urbanscan"
Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano
LOT/EK Architecture
http://www.lot-ek.com/
http://design.stanford.edu/PD/events/lecture_series_mainframe.html
THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2003
12 noon Award Winning Teachers Speaker Series
Hartley Conference Room, Mitchell Earth Sciences Bldg.
"The Socratic Method: What It is and How to Use It in the Classroom"
Rob Reich
Political Science, Stanford
http://ctl.stanford.edu/Awt/awts03.html
12:15pm CSLI CogLunch
Cordura 100
"A Typology of Event Integration in Language"
Len Talmy
SUNY Buffalo
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
Abstract below
4:00pm Carlos McClatchy Memorial Symposium
Cubberley Auditorium
"The Language of War and the Ethics of Journalism"
Panelists:
James W. Carey,
Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University
Kathleen Hall Jamieson,
dean of the Annenberg School for Communication, U.of Pennsylvania
Geoffrey Nunberg, senior researcher, CSLI
Moderator:
Peter J. Sussman, journalist and author and past president of the
Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists
http://communication.stanford.edu/common/mcclatchy/mcclatchyspr2003.html
4:00pm Personality Seminar
Jordan Hall 420:100
First year presentations
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/news.html#person_lab
4:00pm UC Berkeley BISC Seminar
380 Soda Hall, Berkeley
"Recent Advances in Variable and Feature Selection"
Isabelle Guyon
Clopinet
http://buffy.eecs.berkeley.edu/Seminars/
4:15pm CSLI Seminar on Computational Learning and Adaptation
Cordura Hall, room 100
"Real-world Insights from Mining Retail E-Commerce Data"
Ronny Kohavi
Blue Martini Software
http://cll.stanford.edu/scla.html
Abstract below
4:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
"How Language Structures Concepts"
Leonard Talmy
Linguistics, SUNY Buffalo,
http://symsys.stanford.edu:8081/ssp-dynamic/servlet/ssp_events
Abstract below
FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2003
9:00am Special University Oral Examination
Packard 101
"Formalizing Elaboration Tolerance"
Aarati Parmar
Computer Science
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/aarati/
Abstract below
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar
Gates B01
"DIVER: (Digital Interactive Video Exploration and Reflection)"
Roy Pea and Michael Mills,
Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning
http://scil.stanford.edu/research/mmr/diver.html
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
Abstract below
2:00pm UC Berkeley Dissertation Defense
380 Soda Hall (UC Berkeley)
"Informally Prototyping Multimodal, Multidevice User Interfaces"
Anoop Sinha
EECS Department
http://buffy.eecs.berkeley.edu/Seminars/
Abstract below
2:15pm NLP Reading Group
Wallenberg 323
"Measuring the Similarity between Compound Nouns in Different
Languages Using Non-Parallel Corpora"
Takaaki Tanaka
NTT
http://www-nlp.stanford.edu/nlp/nlpgroup.html
Abstract below
3:15pm Logical Methods in the Humanities
Bldg. 380:380D (math corner)
"Referentialist and Descriptivist Approaches to Indexicals:
Towards a Compromise"
Isidora Stojanovic
Philosophy, Stanford
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/seminars.html
Abstract below
3:15pm Friday Cognitive Seminar
Jordan Hall 420:100
"Young children's sensitivity to function morphemes"
Renate Zangl
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/news.html#frisem
3:15pm CS545: Database Seminar
Braun Auditorium, Mudd Chemistry
"Integration Challenges for Gene Expression and Related Data"
Anthony Kosky
GeneLogic, Inc.
http://www-db.stanford.edu/dbseminar/
Abstract below
3:30pm Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
"Equatives and Deferred Reference"
Gregory Ward
Northwestern University
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/
Abstract below
SATURDAY, 24 MAY 2003
all day "Becoming Human" conference
Bldg. 320:105
"Becoming Human:
The Evolutionary Origins of Religious, Spiritual and Moral Awareness
Year Two: From Biology to Biography: The Science of the Human Person"
http://www.metanexus.net/becoming_human/c2info.html
Schedule below
MONDAY, 26 MAY 2003 - University Holiday
TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2003
2:45pm CS548: Internet and Distributed Systems Seminar
Gates B03
"FAB - Federated Array of Bricks"
Yasushi Saito
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
http://cs548.stanford.edu/schedule.shtml
4:15pm Engineering 200: Research Universities: Stanford, A Case Study
Jordan 420:040
"Ethical Issues in Scholarly Publication"
Donald Kennedy
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/DoR/101.html
5:30pm Syntax Workshop
Margaret Jacks 460:126
"Let's not agree: a linear-constructional framework for
nominal category marking"
Luis D. Casillas Martinez
Stanford University
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/sssg/
Abstract below
WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2003
12 noon Psychology Developmental Brownbags
Bldg. 380:381U
Title to be announced
Lauren Barton
UC San Francisco
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/news.html#dev_brownbag
3:00pm Reuters Foundation Digital Vision Program Seminar
email for location mailto:digitalvision@csli.stanford.edu
Pavni Diwanji
Chief Executive Officer and Founder, MailFrontier
http://reuters.stanford.edu/seminar_speakers.html
3:45pm Psychology Department Colloquium
Jordan Hall 420:041
"Aggression in the Two Sexes: A Developmental Perspective"
Eleanor Maccoby
Stanford
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/news.html
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
"The Digital Management of Hydrocarbon Reserves"
John Ullo
Director, Schlumberger Austin Technology Center
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
Abstract below
7:00pm Symbolic Systems Distinguished Speaker Series
Bldg. 420:041
"Conscious and Unconscious Aspects of Language Structure"
Ray Jackendoff
Linguistics, Brandeis University
http://symsys.stanford.edu/
Abstract below
THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2003
4:00pm Personality Seminar
Jordan Hall 420:100
First year presentations
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/news.html#person_lab
4:00pm PARC Forum
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Beer: From [DEL: Grain :DEL] Brain To Glass"
Peter Bouckaert
Brewmaster, New Belgium Brewing, Co.
http://www.parc.com/forum/
4:00pm SRI AI Seminar Series
EJ228, SRI International
"ANTS"
Charles L. Ortiz and Regis Vincent
Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
4:15pm CSLI Seminar on Computational Learning and Adaptation
Cordura Hall, room 100
"Lessons and Challenges from Mining Retail E-Commerce Data"
Rajesh Parekh
Blue Martini Software
http://cll.stanford.edu/scla.html
Abstract below
4:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
"Cross-Cultural Models of Hierarchy in Virtual Worlds:
Or Who needs a boss when you have a computer?"
Kent Griffin
MS Candidate, Symbolic Systems Program
http://symsys.stanford.edu:8081/ssp-dynamic/servlet/ssp_events
Abstract below
FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2003
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar
Gates B01
"System Administrators are Users Too"
Rob Barrett
IBM Almaden Research
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
3:15pm Friday Cognitive Seminar
Jordan Hall 420:100
Title to be announced
Teenie Matlock
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/news.html#frisem
3:15pm CS545: Database Seminar
Braun Auditorium, Mudd Chemistry
"Model Organism Databases (and their Curation),
with a focus on the Saccharomyces Genome Database"
Michael Cherry
Genetics Department, Stanford University
http://www-db.stanford.edu/dbseminar/
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Stanford Blood Center status: shortage of everything. For an
appointment: http://bloodcenter.stanford.edu/ or call 650-723-7831.
It only takes an hour of your time.
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EE380: COMPUTER SYSTEMS LAB COLLOQUIUM
on Wednesday, 21 May 2003, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
NEC Auditorium (B03), Gates Computer Science Building
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
"The Internet Bookmobile
Public Access to Publishing"
Ashley Rindsberg
Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/
The Internet Bookmobile provides a community-based means for achieving
greater access to written knowledge, by enabling nearly anybody to
print public domain and self-published works in small quantities at
very low cost.
The Bookmobile applies well-entrenched technologies like laptop
computers, office printers, and scanners to both scan and print books
that are important to underserved domestic and international
communities. In this way, it is able to provide a means of
distribution for texts that have remained obscure by publishing them
on the web, thereby making the material universally available.
See also:
http://www.venturecollective.org/bookmobile
http://www.archive.org/bookmobile
The Internet Bookmobile itself will be available from 3:30PM until
after 6:00PM for visits and live demonstrations off just off Serra Mall,
near the main entrance to the Gates Computer Science Building.
About the speaker: Ashley Rindsberg is a graduate of Cornell
University where he earned a B.A. in Philosophy and a B.A. in Science
and Technology Studies, focusing on the Philosophy of Science and
Innovation Theory. In 2001, he began working with the History of
Recent Science and Technology Project at MIT's Dibner Institute to
digitize the paper-copy archive at the Cornell Center for Materials
Science.
He has taught and tutored writing and has a deep interest in
literature. Currently he is developing and piloting the Internet
Archive's Internet Bookmobile in San Francisco.
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CSLI COGLUNCH
on Thursday, 22 May 2003, 12:15pm-1:30pm
Cordura Hall, Room 100
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/
"A Typology of Event Integration in Language"
Leonard Talmy
Department of Linguistics and Center for Cognitive Science
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
In the conceptual organization of language, there is a fundamental and
pervasive event complex -- though one that is insufficiently
recognized -- that I term a "macro-event". It consists of two parts,
a "framing event" and a "co-event". These parts can be conceptually
integrated for expression by a single clause. Five types of framing
event have been observed. These are events of motion, of state
change, of temporal contouring (aspect understood as a separable
event), of action correlating, and of "realization". Languages treat
these five types of framing event alike structurally, even though they
are semantically distinct, perhaps on the basis of some abstract
conceptual analogy that the latter four types bear to a motion event.
As for the co-event, it is a distinguishable event in close
association with the framing event that bears to it one of a certain
set of relations -- usually that of manner or of cause.
Languages fall into a two-category typology based on where they
characteristically represent the core of the framing event.
"Satellite-framed" languages -- such as English and Mandarin --
express the core of the framing event in a satellite to the main verb
(e.g., in the English verb particle). "Verb-framed" languages -- such
as Spanish and Japanese -- represent the core of the framing event in
the main verb.
The two types of framing have pervasive effects on how event structure
is expressed. These implications will be traced out and illustrated
cross-linguistically.
About the speaker: see below under his other talk.
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CSLI SEMINAR ON COMPUTATIONAL LEARNING AND ADAPTATION
on Thursday, 22 May 2003, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
Cordura 100
http://cll.stanford.edu/scla.html
"Real-world Insights from Mining Retail E-Commerce Data"
Ronny Kohavi
Blue Martini Software
http://www.bluemartini.com/bi/
http://robotics.stanford.edu/~ronnyk/
The Business Intelligence team at Blue Martini has been doing data
mining of e-commerce data for several clients over the last three
years. We will briefly discuss the system architecture that lets us
collect, transform, and mine data effectively, then show examples of
insights from real customer data. The examples are related to
usability, bot detection, session timeouts, search, referrers,
micro-conversion rates, product affinities (associations), campaigns,
RFM analysis, and geographical analysis. We will even show a real
example of Simpson's paradox that we encountered. The talk will be
mostly non-technical and hopefully fun.
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SSP10: SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM
on Thursday, 22 May 2003, 4:15pm
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
http://symsys.stanford.edu:8081/ssp-dynamic/servlet/ssp_events
"How Language Structures Concepts"
Len Talmy
Linguistics, SUNY Buffalo
As a fundamental design feature, language has two subsystems, the
open-class (lexical) and the closed-class (grammatical). These
subsystems perform complementary functions. In the total meaning
expressed by any portion of discourse, the open-class forms contribute
the majority of the content, while the closed-class forms determine
the majority of the structure. Further, across languages, all
closed-class forms are under great semantic constraint: They represent
only certain concepts and categories of concepts, but not
others. Closed-class representations accordingly appear to constitute
the fundamental conceptual structuring system of language. This talk
will examine some of the main conceptual categories and member
concepts represented by closed-class forms; the properties that
distinguish such closed-class representations from open-class
representations; and the conceptual structuring function performed by
this organization of language. This linguistic structure will be
brought into relief by contrasting it with the structure found in
another cognitive system, visual perception. It will be seen that
language and vision, along with other cognitive systems, each have
certain structural properties of their own and others that they share,
in what I term the overlapping systems model of cognitive
organization.
About the speaker: Leonard Talmy is the Director of the Center for
Cognitive Science, Professor of Linguistics, and Adjunct Professor of
Philosophy at the University at Buffalo, State University of New
York. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of
California, Berkeley. Since then, he has taught in Hamburg, Rome, and
Moscow (the latter two as a Fulbright Fellow) and at Stanford,
Georgetown and UC Berkeley. He has done extended research at Stanford
on the Language Universals Project, at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric
Institute with language-impaired children, and at the University of
California at San Diego in cognitive science at the Center for Human
Information Processing. And he was the Coordinator of the Cognitive
Science Program at the University of California at Berkeley for six
years. His broader research interests cover cognitive linguistics, the
properties of conceptual organization, and cognitive theory. His more
specific interests within linguistics center on natural-language
semantics, including: typologies and universals of semantic structure;
the relationship between semantic structure and formal linguistic
structures -- lexical, morphological, and syntactic; and the relation
of this material to diachrony, discourse, development, impairment, and
culture. Additional specializations are in American Indian and
Yiddish linguistics. He is the author of a two-volume set with MIT
Press (2000): Toward a Cognitive Semantics -- volume 1: Concept
Structuring Systems; volume 2: Typology and Process in Concept
Structuring. Previously published articles include "The Relation of
Grammar to Cognition", "Force Dynamics in Language and Cognition",
"How Language Structures Space", "Fictive Motion in Language and
`Ception'", "Lexicalization Patterns", and "The Representation of
Spatial Structure in Spoken and Signed Languages: a Neural Model". He
was elected a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society in its 2002
inaugural selection of Fellows. He is presently on the editorial board
of the journal Cognitive Linguistics and of the journal of Discourse
and Cognition (Korea); on the advisory board of English Linguistics
(journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan), of the Journal of
Cognitive Science (Korea), and of the Journal of Phenomenology and the
Cognitive Sciences; on the governing board of the Bolzano
International Schools in Cognitive Analysis (BISCA); and a
corresponding member of the Center for Research in Applied
Epistemology (CREA) in Paris, France.
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SPECIAL UNIVERSITY ORAL EXAMINATION
on Friday, 23 May 2003, 9:00am
Packard 101
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/aarati/
Refreshments served at 8:45am
"Formalizing Elaboration Tolerance"
Aarati Parmar
Computer Science, Stanford University
A formalism is elaboration tolerant to the extent it is easy to change
in order to reflect new information. Natural language is the model
for elaboration tolerance; in everyday discourse one can easily and
succinctly change one's declarations by adding an extra sentence or
two. Elaboration tolerance is a desirable property of any
representation, whether it is a logical theory, a Bayesian network, or
a computer program.
We introduce a kind of elaboration tolerance that we call additive
elaboration tolerance, where a representation is modified simply by
adding the appropriate formula. This modality of changing
representations is attractive because it avoids "brain surgery" -- we
do not have to tinker explicitly with the representation at all. We
show how to endow a given representation with additive elaboration
tolerance by embedding it in another system. This embedding has some
useful properties, such as modeling human discourse, and preserving
the facts true in the original representation.
We conclude by relating some design principles that can promote
elaboration tolerance in general. These principles are extracted from
various fields of computer science, including relational database
design and object-oriented programming. We show how various solutions
to the missionaries and cannibals problem follow from these
principles.
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CS547: HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SEMINAR
on Friday, 23 May 2003, 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B01
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/cs547/
"The DIVER Project:
Point-of-View Authoring of Virtual Tours of Video Recordings
(aka "Diving") for Learning, Education and Other Purposes"
Roy Pea and Michael Mills
Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning
DIVER (Digital Video Exploration and Reflection) is a research and
development project of Stanford's Center for Innovations in Learning
that is devoted to creating tools for enhancing the activities of
exploring and reflecting on digital video records, captured on devices
from consumer videocameras to high-end panoramic videorecorders. The
National Science Foundation funded project includes 360-degree
panoramic audio-video capture, authoring, and interaction where one
can create virtual pathways through video content and annotate them
for sharing and commentary via web pages. These DIVER functionalities
support "guided noticing" as an instructional method (e.g., in teacher
education, graduate research training), and in collaborative
researcher analyses of videorecords and hold promise for entertainment
and commerce. Core objectives of DIVER are to enable "virtual
videography" and to allow video users to "capture once, and author
forever". The DIVER project aspires to accelerate cultural
appropriation of video as a fluid expressive medium for generating,
sharing and critiquing different perspectives on the same richly
recorded events and to work with others to provide a Digital Video
Collaboratory that enables cumulative knowledge building from
video-as-data for discovery and commentary. DIVER is designed so as to
provide an integrated platform for digital video recording,
annotation, management, transcoding, distribution, and collaboration.
About the Speakers: Roy Pea is Professor of Education and Learning
Sciences at Stanford University, Co-Director of the Stanford Center
for Innovations in Learning (SCIL, http://scil.stanford.edu), and has
extensive experience in applying video analysis technology to studies
in the learning sciences and technology design. He is Fellow of the
National Academy of Education, American Psychological Society, and the
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He is co-founder
of Teachscape.com.
Michael Mills is SCIL's design director, and a cognitive scientist
with 17 years experience in interface, product and interface design,
user studies, and teaching. While serving as principal scientist at
Apple Computer, he was instrumental in the development of QuickTime
and QuickTimeVR. He holds several interface design patents in digital
video, and has authored many articles on interface design..
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UC BERKELEY DISSERTATION DEFENSE
on Friday, 23 May 2003, 2:00pm
Soda Hall 380 (UC Berkeley)
http://buffy.eecs.berkeley.edu/Seminars/
"Informally Prototyping Multimodal, Multidevice User Interfaces"
Anoop Sinha
Group for User Interface Research (EECS Department)
Increasingly, it is important to look at the end-users tool of the
future as not a solitary PC, but as a diverse set of devices, ranging
from laptops to PDA's to tablet computers. Some of these devices do
not have keyboard and mouse, and thus multimodal interaction
techniques, such as pen input and speech input, will be required to
interface with them. Interaction designers are increasingly faced with
the challenge of creating interfaces that target this style of
interface. Our study into their interface design practice uncovered
the lack of processes and tools to help them.
This dissertation covers the motivation, design, and development of
CrossWeaver, a tool for helping these designers prototype multimodal,
multidevice user interfaces. This tool embodies the informal
prototyping paradigm, leaving design representations in an informal,
sketched form and creating a working prototype from these sketches.
Informal prototypes created with CrossWeaver can run across multiple
standalone devices simultaneously, processing multimodal input from
each one. CrossWeaver captures all of the user interaction when
running a test of a prototype. This input log can quickly be viewed
for the details of the users multimodal interaction, and it can be
replayed across all participating devices, giving the designer
information to help him or her iterate the interface design. Our
evaluation of CrossWeaver with professional designers has shown that
we have created an effective tool for early creative design of
multimodal, multidevice user interfaces. CrossWeaver dovetails with
existing design processes and can assist in a number of current design
challenges.
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NLP READING GROUP
on Friday, 23 May 2003, 2:15pm - 3:30pm
Wallenberg 323
http://www-nlp.stanford.edu/nlp/nlpgroup.html
"Measuring the Similarity between Compound Nouns in
Different Languages Using Non-Parallel Corpora"
http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/coling2002/proceedings/data/area-13/co-179.pdf
Presented by Takaaki Tanaka, NTT
This paper presents a method that measures the similarity between
compound nouns in different languages to locate translation
equivalents from corpora. The method uses information from unrelated
corpora in different languages that do not have to be parallel. This
means that many corpora can be used. The method compares the contexts
of target compound nouns and translation candidates in the word or
semantic attribute level. In this paper, we show how this measuring
method can be applied to select the best English translation candidate
for Japanese compound nouns in more than 70% of the cases.
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LOGICAL METHODS IN THE HUMANITIES
on Friday, 23 May 2003, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Math Corner 380:380D
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/seminars.html
"Referentialist and Descriptivist Approaches to Indexicals:
Towards a Compromise"
Isidora Stojanovic
Philosophy, Stanford
Indexicals can be used both as devices of direct reference and to
convey descriptive information. How can a unified account of the
semantics of indexicals and their role in cognition reconcile these
conflicting features? After a brief look at the motivations and the
shortcomings of the dominant, Kaplanian view, I will present a
descriptive account of indexicals that borrows tools from dynamic
logic, and show how it can account for the referentialist insights.
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CS545: DATABASE SEMINAR
on Friday, 23 May 2003, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Braun Auditorium, Mudd Chemistry
http://www-db.stanford.edu/dbseminar/
"Integration Challenges for Gene Expression and Related Data"
Anthony Kosky
GeneLogic, Inc.
DNA microarrays have emerged as the leading technology for measuring
gene expression, primarily because of their high throughput: a single
microarray experiment provides measurements for the mRNA transcription
level for tens of thousands of genes in parallel. While this
technology opens new opportunities for functional genomics and drug
discovery applications, it also presents new bioinformatics and data
management challenges arising from the need to capture, manage and
integrate vast amounts of expression data together with related gene
and sample annotation data.
GeneExpress is a data management system developed by Gene Logic Inc.,
that contains gene expression information for thousands of normal and
diseased samples, and for experimental animal model and cellular
tissues. Initially the GeneExpress system was developed with the goal
of supporting effective exploration, analysis and management of gene
expression data generated at Gene Logic using the Affymetrix GeneChip
platform. Building such a system involved addressing various data
integration problems in order to associate gene expression data with
sample data and gene annotations. A subsequent goal for the
GeneExpress system was to provide support for incorporating gene
expression data generated by Gene Logic's customers. Addressing this
additional goal required the resolution of various levels of syntactic
and semantic heterogeneity of sample data, gene annotations and gene
expression data, often generated under different experimental
conditions.
In this talk, I will describe some of the data integration challenges
associated with gene expression and related data management system,
and describe how we have addressed these challenges in the GeneExpress
system.
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STANFORD SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS WORKSHOP
on Friday, 23 May 2003, 3:30pm
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/
"Equatives and Deferred Reference"
Gregory Ward
Northwestern University
One of the most creative, but least understood, features of colloquial
discourse is the possibility of deferred reference (Nunberg 1979,
1955): the use of an expression to refer to an entity not denoted by
the conventional meaning of that expression. Consider the examples in
(1), uttered in the context of a luncheonette:
(1) a. [server to co-worker] The ham sandwich left me a big tip.
b. [customer to server holding a tray full of orders] I'm the ham
sandwich.
In (1a), the speaker's reference is `deferred' in the sense that he is
referring indirectly to the person who ordered the ham sandwich via
the ham sandwich itself. With the equative copular sentence in (1b),
on the other hand, the speaker is `equating' herself with her order to
convey indirectly that she is the ham sandwich orderer. In the spirit
of Nunberg (1979), I refer to such equatives as deferred equatives. In
this paper, I present arguments against previous accounts and provide
a new theory of deferred reference to accommodate examples like those
in (1). Specifically, I will be arguing against the notion of meaning
transfer and in favor of the notion of reference mapping. I claim that
felicitous use of both deferred equatives and deferred non-equatives
requires the presence of a contextually salient correspondence, or
mapping, to hold between sets of relevant discourse entities. In (1),
the relevant mapping is between the (inferred) set of deli customers
and the (evoked) set of their orders. In addition, the use of a
deferred equative requires the presence of a contextually licensed
open proposition (OP) that explicitly encodes the reference mapping.
Finally, I present the results of an empirical study (Ward & Tilsen
2002) in which subjects were asked to rate various kinds of deferred
equatives.
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BECOMING HUMAN CONFERENCE
The Evolutionary Origins of Religious, Spiritual and Moral Awareness
http://www.metanexus.net/becoming_human/c2info.html
on Saturday, 24 May 2003, all day
Building 320, Room 105
http://www.metanexus.net/becoming_human/c2info.html
Year Two:
From Biology to Biography: The Science of the Human Person
The rise of evolutionary theory as the unifying principle in the human
sciences creates a challenging dilemma for our understanding of the
spiritual, religious and moral dimensions of human existence.
Evolution provides an explanation of the development of life within
the frame of biological utility, yet it has produced a species with a
sense of purpose, and whose moral imperatives claim authority from a
transcendent source.
An interdisciplinary effort has been under way to investigate the
origins of mind, the evolutionary importance of consciousness, and the
adaptive role of culturally generated narratives that convey human
meaning and purpose within a larger explanation and interpretation of
life. This conference brings together thinkers from diverse fields to
investigate this crucial junction of the sciences and the humanities.
Sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation and Stanford University
(The Program in Human Biology and the Department of Anthropological
Sciences).
Free and open to the public (no registration required)
Conference Schedule:
Saturday, May 24th
9:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks
Session I Biology: Chemicals to Consciousness
10:00 William Hurlbut, M.D.
Consulting Professor in the Program in Human Biology, Stanford University
"The Evolutionary Foundations of Freedom, Mind and Moral Awareness"
10:30 Paul Ekman, PhD
Professor of Psychology, University of California, San Francisco
"Why and When are We Emotional?"
11:00 Coffee Break
11:15 George Lakoff, PhD
Professor of Linguistics, University of California at Berkeley
"The Embodied Mind: The Ground of Concepts"
11:45 William Hurlbut, M.D.
Consulting Professor in the Program in Human Biology, Stanford University
"Evolution, Empathy and Human Intersubjectivity"
12:15 Discussion
12:30 Lunch Break
Session II: Biography: Personal Identity, Social Community and Spiritual
Cosmology
2:00 Anne Colby, PhD
Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching
"The Development of Moral Understanding, Emotion, and Identity
Through Life"
3:00 Coffee Break
3:15 Paul Ekman, PhD
Professor of Psychology, University of California, San Francisco
"I Lost my Head: Awareness, Emotion and Choice"
3:45 George Lakoff, PhD
Professor of Linguistics, University of California at Berkeley
"The Embodied Mind: Central Metaphors of Moral and Spiritual Life"
4:15 Discussion
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SYNTAX WORKSHOP
on Tuesday, 27 May 2003, 5:30pm
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/sssg/
"Let's not agree:
a linear-constructional framework for nominal category marking"
Luis D. Casillas Martinez
Stanford University
This talk presents some central ideas of my dissertation project, an
investigation into the logic of part of the grammatical phenomena that
go under the name of "grammatical agreement." The goal however is not
to come to a definition or explanation of grammatical agreement.
Rather, I develop a critique of the way of thinking that is tied up
with the notion of an "agreement relation." The main charge is that
traditional thinking about agreement has tended to neglect a key
distinction: that between inflectional properties of nominal words and
constructional properties of noun phrases. Once the second are
admitted into our vocabulary, we have no need of the notion of
"agreement" except perhaps as a descriptive term for a special case in
Nominal Category Marking.
I approach the critical task with an alternative proposal on how to
think about the same sort of data that agreement relations between
words are invoked to explain. Instead of a framework where agreement
relations ensure identity of morphological properties between words
that stand in certain constituency, dependency or grammatical
relations, I propose a framework where noun phrase constructions
distribute patterns of inflectional forms over linear domains (Kathol
2000).
The constructional part of the critique is driven by examination of
several Romance varieties that exhibit noun phrase morphosyntax that
departs considerably from the paradigm cases of "agreement": the
neuter gender in Romanian, variable plural marking in vernacular
Brazilian Portuguese, and the mass neuter in Asturian. In these
varieties, to put it informally, there are more kinds of noun phrases
than kinds of nominal words; the category of a noun phrase can't in
general be read off from that of any single one of its constituent
words. This results from two kinds of factor: (a) the set of
gender/number categories that noun phrases distinguish can fail to be
in one-to-one correspondence with the nominal inflectional forms used
to mark these categories; (b) noun phrase categories can be marked by
use of different inflectional forms within the same noun phrase
(non-uniform marking).
The simplest way to account for these systems is to posit noun phrase
constructions as first-class objects which call for characteristic
patterns of nominal category marking. But once we do this, we no
longer need the notion of "agreement relations." Furthermore, we are
no longer inclined to see any essential difference between languages
that show "agreement" and others that don't; what we call "agreement"
becomes just a special case within the broader space of nominal
category marking patterns.
The linear part of my critique is the least developed so far. This
draws mainly from variationist accounts of plural marking in
vernacular Brazilian Portuguese, and the so-called Spanish "feminine"
/el/ phenomenon. The rules that distribute inflectional forms in both
cases invoke linear precedence and adjacency, factors among those that
Zwicky (1990) takes to be characteristic of shape rules as opposed to
morphosyntactic rules; the latter are intended to be sensitive to
things like constituency and grammatical relations. Brazilian number
"agreement" and Spanish feminine /el/, despite seemingly being very
different phenomena, draw from the same sort of relations and
properties, but in different mixes.
References
Academia de la Llingua Asturiana. 1999. Gramatica de la Llingua
Asturiana. Oviedo: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana. 2nd ed.
Casillas Martinez, Luis D. 2002. Spanish nonadjacent feminine /el/: a
gender agreement account. Ms. Stanford University.
Casillas Martinez, Luis D. 2003. The construction/style connection:
linking form and meaning in grammar and sociolinguistics. Ms. Stanford
University.
Corbett, Greville. 1991. Gender. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
Corbett, Greville. 2000. Number. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
Kathol, Andreas. 2000. Linear Syntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Scherre, Maria Marta Pereira. 1996. Sobre a influencia de tres
variaveis relacionadas na concordancia nominal em portugues. In
Giselle Machline de Oliveira e Silva and Maria Marta Pereira Scherre,
eds., Padroes Sociolinguisticos: Analise de Fenomenos Variaveis do
Portugues Falado na Cidade do Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro: Tempo
Brasileiro.
Zwicky, Arnold M. 1990. Syntactic representations and phonological
shapes. In Draga Zec and Sharon Inkelas, eds., The Phonology-Syntax
Connection. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
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EE380: COMPUTER SYSTEMS LAB COLLOQUIUM
on Wednesday, 28 May 2003, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
NEC Auditorium (B03), Gates Computer Science Building
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
"The Digital Management of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs"
John Ullo
Schlumberger
The Digital Management of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs The new "Digital
Economy" is changing the complex workflow processes of the Exploration
and Production (E&P) sectors of the Oil and Gas industry in ways that
are as fundamental as core geotechnical advances. Assimilating these
new technologies into business activities will lead to market
advantages and enable the Oil & Gas industry to sustain and grow a
hydrocarbon-based economy efficiently and cleanly for many years to
come. This talk will describe some of these information-based trends
as well as future technologies that will enable a new working paradigm
for the E&P sector based on an emerging collaborative mindset.
About the speaker: Dr. Ullo is currently Vice President and General
Manager of the Schlumberger Austin Technology Center (ATC). In this
capacity he oversees several large product development groups which
are responsible for the development of computer software and hardware
systems that govern field data acquisition, data transport and use of
that data in decision driven workflows that are critical for managing
today's more complex oil and gas assets. His technical interests are
computer simulation of subsurface geophysical measurements and
sensors, computational physics for materials behavior and statistical
mechanics. Prior to Schlumberger Dr. Ullo received his B.S. in Physics
from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and followed that with a Ph.D.
in Nuclear Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER SERIES
on Wednesday, 28 May 2003, 7:00pm
Bldg. 420:041
http://symsys.stanford.edu/
"Conscious and Unconscious Aspects of Language Structure"
Ray Jackendoff
Professor of Linguistics, Brandeis University
http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/psych/faculty/jackendoff.html
There has been a great deal of recent discussion of the "neural
correlates of consciousness." This talk will address a related notion,
the "functional correlates of consciousness" -- the formal structures
in the mind that are relevant to awareness. I will look specifically
at verbal awareness and verbal imagery, in the context of a fleshed
out theory of linguistic structure -- the one mental domain where such
a theory exists. A number of striking conclusions emerge that (a) call
into question many of the popular theories of consciousness, (b)
clarify the role of working memory and attention in consciousness, and
(c) show how language enhances thought.
About the speaker: Ray Jackendoff is Professor of Linguistics at
Brandeis University, where he has taught since 1971. He has been a
Fellow of the Center for Advanced Studies in Stanford and the
Wissenschaftskolleg (Center for Advanced Study) in Berlin, and is a
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2003 he is
President of the Linguistic Society of America. His most recent book
is Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution. His
CD, "Romanian Music for Clarinet and Piano", will be issued by Albany
Records this spring.
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CSLI SEMINAR ON COMPUTATIONAL LEARNING AND ADAPTATION
on Thursday, 29 May 2003, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
Cordura 100
http://cll.stanford.edu/scla.html
"Lessons and Challenges from Mining Retail E-Commerce Data"
Rajesh Parekh
Blue Martini Software
http://www.bluemartini.com/bi/
The architecture of Blue Martini Software's e-commerce suite has
supported data collection, transformation, and data mining since its
inception. We will briefly review the system architecture and present
the key lessons we have learned and the important challenges we have
identified from our experience with mining retail e-commerce data. We
will present these lessons and challenges from the business and
technical viewpoints and across the data mining lifecycle stages of
data collection, data warehouse construction, business intelligence,
and deployment.
This is joint work with Ron Kohavi, Llew Mason, and Zijian Zheng.
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SSP10: SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM
on Thursday, 29 May 2003, 4:15pm
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
http://symsys.stanford.edu:8081/ssp-dynamic/servlet/ssp_events
"Cross-Cultural Models of Hierarchy in Virtual Worlds:
Or Who needs a boss when you have a computer?"
Kent Griffin
MS Candidate, Symbolic Systems Program
International businesses have always faced challenges, and
communication has always been one of the more important of these
challenges. Whether communicating locally or across nations, these
businesses face an uphill battle since different countries tend to
have different models for hierarchical communication and operation.
The literature in business management tells us how different cultures
have different models for interactions. For example, American systems
tend to be more vertical. On the other hand, Japanese managers tend
to be liked more by their employees than do American managers. The
question in international relations and business management has always
been, "How can we operate one company or group to satisfy two
different models?" Now, with the continual onslaught of new
technologies, methods of communication can change drastically. Thus,
a new question arises: "How does a new medium affect and/or represent
the hierarchical forms of communication in various cultures?" For
example, if we change the setting from a company's conference room to
a virtual conference room, would this have an effect on the
interaction? What if we changed someone's boss to be nothing more
than an agent? Would he/she still treat the agent like a boss? And,
of course, how do these questions differ by country?
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