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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 24 September 2008, vol. 24:4
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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24 September 2008 Stanford Vol. 24, No. 4
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A weekly publication of the
Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI)
Stanford University, Cordura Hall, Stanford, CA 94305-4101
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/
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ACTIVITIES FROM 24 SEPTEMBER 2008 TO 5 OCTOBER 2008
WEDNESDAY, 24 SEPTEMBER 2008
12 noon Sociorap [24-Sep-08]
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
Organizational meeting
12 noon UC Berkeley IPSR colloquium [24-Sep-08]
5101 Tolman Hall (Berkeley)
"Attitudes in their Social Context: Malleability, Stability,
and the Role of Construal"
Alison Ledgerwood
UC Davis
http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/ipsr/colloquia.html
12 noon Berkeley Redwood Seminar [24-Sep-08]
508-20 Evans Hall (Berkeley)
"Dimensional reduction in motor patterns for balance control"
Lena H. Ting
Biomedical Engineering, Emory University and Georgia Institute
of Technology
http://redwood.berkeley.edu/seminars.php
4:00pm Berkeley School of Information Special Lecture [24-Sep-08]
202 South Hall (Berkeley)
"Communicating Cultural Heritage: The Role of New Media"
Francesco Antinucci
Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology, CNR, Italy
http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/about/events
Abstract below
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium [24-Sep-08]
Gates B03
"Towards a Global Public Computer"
Jonathan Appavoo
IBM Research, T.J. Watson Research Center, New York
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
Abstract below
6:00pm Berkeley HPLMS Talk [24-Sep-08]
234 Moses (Berkeley)
"Learning from Experiments"
Frederick Eberhardt
Berkeley/Washington University
http://hplms.berkeley.edu/
Abstract below
THURSDAY, 25 SEPTEMBER 2008
4:00pm PARC Forum [25-Sep-08]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Sustainability and Human Well Being: Can We Meet the Challenge?"
Kamal Bawa
Biology, University of Massachusetts, Boston
http://www.parc.com/forum/
4:00pm UC Berkeley CIS Seminar [25-Sep-08]
Soda Hall 310 (UC Berkeley)
"Two half-hour talks about the current research in their groups"
Jitendra Malik and Dan Klein
UC Berkeley
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/CIS/seminars/seminars.html
FRIDAY, 26 SEPTEMBER 2008
all day Media X workshop [26-Sep-08]
Stanford
"Workgroup Protocols for Networked Teams"
led by Stanley Rosenschein
http://mediax.stanford.edu/WSI/wpnt.html
Information below
12 noon Logical Methods in the Humanities [26-Sep-08]
Cordura 100
"Voting and Social Choice Theory"
Organizational meeting
http://ai.stanford.edu/~epacuit/lmh
Information below
please rsvp to Jesse Alama (alama .. stanford.edu)
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar [26-Sep-08]
Gates B01
"New models for browsing"
Tristan Harris
Apture
http://www.crunchbase.com/person/tristan-harris
http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/
Abstract below
12:30pm UC Berkeley HWNI Student Seminar [26-Sep-08]
101 LSA (Berkeley)
"Hippocampal memory reactivation during awake and sleep states"
Matthew Wilson
MIT
http://neuroscience.berkeley.edu/events/
2:15pm Empirical Syntax Research Seminar [26-Sep-08]
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
Organizational Meeting
3:00pm Berkeley Information Access Seminar [26-Sep-08]
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
To be announced
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/f08/schedule.html
3:30pm Stanford Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop [26-Sep-08]
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
"Sentence Embedding and Linguistic Relativity: Two Counterarguments"
Uli Sauerland
Stanford/ZAS
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/
Abstract below
4:00pm UC Berkeley ICBS Seminar [26-Sep-08]
Tolman 5101 (Berkeley)
"Episodic memory encoding and retrieval:
a cognitive neuroscience perspective"
Mick Rugg
Center for the Neurobiology or Learning and Memory, UC Irvine
http://icbs.berkeley.edu/
Abstract below
MONDAY, 29 SEPTEMBER 2008
TUESDAY, 30 SEPTEMBER 2008
4:00pm SRI AI Seminar Series [30-Sep-08]
EJ228, SRI International
"Leaving Flatland"
Aravind Sundaresan
SRI
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
WEDNESDAY, 1 OCTOBER 2008
4:00pm Berkeley School of Information Distinguished Lecture [1-Oct-08]
110 South Hall (Berkeley)
"Enterprise Uses of Emerging Technologies"
Jonathan Grudin
Microsoft
http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/about/events
Abstract below
4:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum [1-Oct-08]
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
"Reports by Symbolic Systems Summer Interns"
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
(I haven't gotten a confirmation on this)
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium [1-Oct-08]
Gates B03
Title to be announced
Richard Kaufmann
Hewlett Packard
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
THURSDAY, 2 OCTOBER 2008
4:00pm PARC Forum [2-Oct-08]
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"The Physics of Flesh and Bone: Optimize Your Relationship to
Gravity"
Jean Couch
Founder and Director of the Balance Center
http://www.parc.com/forum/
4:00pm UC Berkeley CIS Seminar [2-Oct-08]
Soda Hall 310 (UC Berkeley)
"Statistical Parsing Fifteen Years Later"
Eugene Charniak
Brown University
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/CIS/seminars/seminars.html
Abstract below
4:15pm Information Systems Seminar [2-Oct-08]
Packard 101
Title to be announced
Edmund Yeh
Yale
http://isl.stanford.edu/colloquium.html
FRIDAY, 3 OCTOBER 2008
all day Yahoo Hack Day HackU at Stanford [3-Oct-08]
Gates 104
This may be fun for student/faculty/staff programmers
http://www.google.com/calendar/event?eid=MTNtMHBzYW52NXQ1aWdlYW4wbWg2Z2ZlMnMgZm9ydW1zdGFuZm9yZEBt&ctz=America/Los_Angeles
http://developer.yahoo.com/hacku/
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar [3-Oct-08]
Gates B01
To be announced
http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/
3:00pm Berkeley Information Access Seminar [3-Oct-08]
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
"Reports on The European Conference on Research and
Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: Towards the European
Digital Library"
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/f08/schedule.html
4:00pm UC Santa Cruz Linguistics Colloquium [3-Oct-08]
Humanities One Bldg, room 210 (UC Santa Cruz)
"Assertions, Polar Questions and Polarity Particles"
Donka Farkas
UC Santa Cruz
http://ling.ucsc.edu/news_events/rss.php
SATURDAY, 4 OCTOBER 2008
all day Berkeley Affix Ordering Workshop [4-Oct-08]
UC Berkeley
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/events
Information below
SUNDAY, 5 OCTOBER 2008
all day Berkeley Affix Ordering Workshop [5-Oct-08]
UC Berkeley
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/events
Information below
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NOTE
As some of you might have heard I will be leaving CSLI and cease doing
this calendar shortly. This will mean a shakeup on how the calendar
is done.
In addition I'm taking vacation for the next couple of weeks so the
calendar may be a bit erratic. -Emma Pease
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ANNOUNCEMENT
Special Philosophy Talk
This Sunday, September 28, 2008 Philosophy Talk, the radio show that
questions everything except your intelligence, will record two
episodes in front of a live audience. Show co-hosts (and Stanford
Professors) John Perry and Ken Taylor will tackle the topics of death
and life at the Marsh Theater in downtown San Francisco. The first
recording, The Terror of Death -- and how to overcome it will begin at
2:30pm. The guest will be best selling author and world- renowned
existential psychotherapist, Dr. Irv Yalom. Yalom's latest work,
Staring at the Sun, is described as "a courageous look into the abyss
of death." At 6:30pm, John and Ken will explore Digital Selves:
Avatars, Second Life, and Virtual Reality with special guest Jeremy
Bailenson, director of Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction
Lab. Professor Bailenson uses cutting-edge technology to unveil the
surprising ways that interaction among humans is transformed in the
digital world.
In case you are not familiar with it, Philosophy Talk is hosted by two
Stanford philosophy professors and has been on the air for five
years. The show is broadcast out of the public radio station KALW in
San Francisco and is also broadcast on numerous public radio stations
across the country. Philosophy Talk is not a lecture or a college
course; it is an engaging radio show that serves as a platform for
lively discussions (listeners can call in) and it is accessible to
almost anyone who's interested in thinking. The show has a loyal and
large following of listeners who often continue discussions with the
hosts on the Philosophy Talk blog or Facebook page. "Philosophy Talk
is probably the only interactive radio show where listeners can dial
in to discuss Socrates, Plato and Kant or topics ranging from love,
baseball and justice with two distinguished philosophy professors,"
said Ben Manilla, Philosophy Talk producer and producer of the
landmark radio series, The Blues.
A sampling of upcoming shows illustrates the wide scope of topics that
listeners look forward to each week: If Truth is So Valuable, Why is
There So Much BS?, Utilitarianism, Morality of Food and What is a
Child?
Audience members will have an opportunity to participate in the
discussion and meet the hosts John, Ken, and the whole Philosophy
Talk Crew up close and personal. Tickets are available through The
Marsh Theater - San Francisco's breeding ground for new performance.
Details:
Date: Sunday September 28, 2008
Time: 2:30 and 6:30pm
Location: Marsh Theater 1062 Valencia Street (near 22nd Street) San
Francisco, CA 94110.
Advance Tickets available through the Marsh Theater online at
http://www.themarsh.org/tix.html or by phone, 800-838-3006. Tickets
are $20 for one performance or $30 for both
Relevant Links:
Marsh Theater ticket sales: http://www.themarsh.org/tix.html
Philosophy Talk homepage: http://www.philosophytalk.org/
Philosophy Talk blog: http://theblog.philosophytalk.org/
Ben Manilla Productions: http://www.bmpaudio.com/
Philosophy Talk on Facebook: http://www.new.facebook.com/pages/Philosophy-Talk/15573277581
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ANNOUNCEMENT
Future Faculty Seminar
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2:15-3:30pm, 23 September - 4 December
http://stanford.edu/class/ctl400/
The Future Faculty Seminar is a weekly seminar for Stanford PhD
students, post doctoral fellows and research/clinical trainees from
all disciplines who are considering an academic career. Its scope
includes the academic job search and all non-research components of a
faculty job.
Graduate students, post docs and other research trainees typically get
plenty of opportunity to learn about research: choosing problems,
doing the work, publishing it, and presenting it, but they often get
little chance to learn about tenure, grant writing, teaching, service,
and other non-research aspects of the academic profession. This
seminar is meant to fill that gap in order to (a) give students
thinking about an academic career a better understanding of what
faculty jobs entail, and (b) help those who do choose to be professors
be good ones. It also includes a strong focus on how to conduct a
successful academic job search.
This course is funded by the Vice Provost for Graduate Education and
is a coordinated effort of the School of Medicine Career Center, the
Career Development Center, and the Center for Teaching and Learning.
Format
The course is conducted as a seminar that meets on Tuesdays and
Thursdays. Tuesday sessions will cover aspects of academic careers and
the job search relevant to all disciplines. Thursday sessions will be
divided into three rooms and cover discipline-specific topics. The
class meetings will include formal presentations by speakers and
panels, as well as workshops for preparing job application materials.
The three discipline-specific sections are:
* Engineering
* Sciences
* Humanities
You are free to attend the section which best suits your field. For
example, students in the social sciences may want to attend either the
humanities or sciences sections, or some of each depending on the
week's focus. All participants will receive relevant handouts and
recommended readings as necessary, and will not need to purchase
materials.
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BERKELEY SCHOOL OF INFORMATION DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
on Wednesday, 24 September 2008, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
202 South Hall (Berkeley)
http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/about/events
"Communicating Cultural Heritage: The Role of New Media"
Francesco Antinucci
Large museums try to make extensive use of new media to communicate
with their public, but with only limited success. Apart from providing
practical information about hours, locations, and shows, museum
websites chiefly serve the needs of experts, and do little to prepare
ordinary museum-goers for their visits. In this talk, I will report on
research done in collaboration with the Roman Forum, the Galleria
Borghese, and the Palazzo Barbarini in Rome and the archaeological
site of Pompei, and in particular on a study of visitors to the
Vatican Museums.
About the Speaker: Francesco Antinucci is Director of Research at the
Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology of the National Research
Council (CNR) of Italy. His research interests have been centered on
perception, reasoning, and learning: their development in infancy and
their evolution in phylogeny and primate psychology. In recent years
his research has centered on the interaction between cognitive
processes and the new interactive technologies of multimedia, digital
networking, and virtual reality, and particularly in the use of
technology to communicate cultural heritage in museums and
archaeological sites.
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EE380: COMPUTER SYSTEMS LAB COLLOQUIUM
on Wednesday, 24 September 2008, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
Gates B03
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
"Towards a Global Public Computer"
Jonathan Appavoo
IBM Research, T.J. Watson Research Center, New York
http://www.research.ibm.com/kittyhawk
In this talk we describe our work, at IBM Research on Project
Kittyhawk, exploring the viability of a Global Public Computer. We
begin with a brief discussion of what we mean by a global public
computer and global computation. We define our notion of a Global
Computer as a well specified public, "software-less", massively
parallel system, on which users can construct services, of arbitrary
scale within resource limits, out of metered and billed common units
of its capacity grouped in domains of communication they specify and
control. The basic approach taken in project Kittyhawk is the
combining of global computation with a massively parallel processor.
The core of the talk presents our prototype system built on IBM's Blue
Gene/P hardware platform. We describe the hardware and how we utilize
it to permit principals to construct both private and shared
computational environments from hardware-based common units of
capacity in the form of Blue Gene/P nodes. These nodes are composed
of cores, memory, and communication resources. To construct the
environments we prototype support for control channels and a primitive
we call a communication domain that establishes which nodes can
communicate with each other. We describe some examples that utilize
open-source software to construct internet-inspired global computation
scenarios out of the raw hardware nodes and network topologies
realized on communication domains.
After presenting the prototype we briefly discuss why, in contrast to
trends in cloud computing, we have chosen to focus on hardware
capacity rather than virtualization, and conclude by raising the
question of how we want our digital future to evolve given the
warnings and advice of pioneers such as John McCarthy and others.
About the Speaker: Jonathan is a Research Scientist at IBM's
T.J. Watson Research Center in New York. Jonathan received his Ph.D in
Computer Science from the University of Toronto in 2005. His work
focused on scalable systems software for large-scale, general purpose
multi-processors. Specifically, he worked on an object model for
systems software construction which permits and encourages fine grain
control of sharing and attendant communication costs. He first pursued
this work in the University of Toronto, Tornado operating system and
then in the IBM K42 operating system. Jonathan's current research
interest is in exploring structure in the complete execution of a
modern computer including the stochastic interactions with the
software, data and exogenous events. He is interested in how the
structure can be defined, quantified and exploited. In 2007, along
with his colleagues Volkmar Uhlig and Amos Waterland, he established
Project Kittyhawk to explore conjectures about Global Scale computers
and computation.
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BERKELEY HPLMS TALK
on Wednesday, 24 September 2008, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
234 Moses (Berkeley)
http://hplms.berkeley.edu/
"Learning from Experiments"
Frederick Eberhardt
Berkeley/Washington University
Are human learners good at causal learning? Do they perform the right
experiment or sequence of experiments? In fact, what is the right
experiment or sequence of experiments, both for human and ideal
computational agents? Toward answering these questions, I will
present recent experimental work on human causal learning that builds
on research in psychology and cognitive science, and I will then lay
out a new normative theory of causal discovery. By approaching the
problem from both the descriptive and the normative side, we get some
traction on the problem of causal learning in general.
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MEDIA X WORKSHOP
on Friday, 26 September 2008, all day
Stanford
http://mediax.stanford.edu/WSI/wpnt.html
"Workgroup Protocols for Networked Teams"
led by Stanley Rosenschein
This one-day workshop looks at the use of workgroup protocols for
organizing collaborative work. It will be of interest to academic and
industrial researchers, and to managers with an interest in process
improvement.
The spread of digital networks has given knowledge workers powerful
new tools for communicating with teammates and accessing data
sources. In principle these tools should lead to dramatic improvements
in performance. In practice, however, real gains are limited by the
practical difficulty of organizing complex work and coordinating with
teammates. Having more ways to communicate and share data is not in
itself a solution to this problem. Indeed, digital tools can even add
to the problem by producing information overload, work fragmentation,
and difficulty balancing priorities. This paradox suggests the need
for better conceptual models of dynamic collaboration directly
addressing the question of how the work itself is organized.
The idea behind workgroup protocols is to structure at least part of
the workday around a set of formal rules of interaction that, by
design, guarantee synchronization of task planning, execution, and
information sharing. The protocols serve as a kind of workgroup
operating system, allowing for efficient allocation of cognitive
resources by team members while not limiting their ability to define
the content of their work dynamically.
This one-day workshop will explore the idea of workgroup protocols at
the theoretical and practical levels. Sessions will address the
following questions:
1. What execution model for human knowledge work could serve as the
basis for workgroup protocols?
2. How can the definition of tasks and communication paths be both
dynamic and managed? What can we learn from the design of computer
systems?
3. What languages and computer-based tools might support workgroup
protocols in the future?
4. How practical would formal protocols be for real human beings?
What cognitive and social factors would be critical in the design
of workgroup protocols? What research still needs to be done?
5. How might workgroup protocols advance the state of the art in
massively-parallel collaboration (cf., Wikipedia)?
The workshop will survey previous and current efforts and will include
hands-on, audience-participation exercises in group problem solving,
illustrating the potential of a high-performance cognitive
multiprocessing.
Registration fees:
General Public - $895
Media X member - $695
Academic/Non-profit organization - $295
Student - $95
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LOGICAL METHODS IN THE HUMANITIES
on Friday, 26 September 2008, 12 noon
Cordura 100
http://ai.stanford.edu/~epacuit/lmh
"Voting and Social Choice Theory"
This quarter the Logical Methods in the Humanities seminar will
discuss voting and social choice theory. There will be an
organizational meeting on Friday, September 26, 12:00-13:00 in Cordura
100. More information can be found at
<http://ai.stanford.edu/~epacuit/lmh>. The seminar is organized by
Sol Feferman (sf csli.stanford.edu), Eric Pacuit (epacuit
stanford.edu) and Jesse Alama (alama stanford.edu).
NOTE: Please contact Jesse Alama (alama stanford.edu) if you are
planning on attending the first meeting (lunch will be provided).
OVERVIEW: The centerpiece of any democratic society is the procedure
used to elect its leaders. A quick survey of different elections held
throughout the world reveals a great variety of methods that can be
employed. How should we compare two different voting procedures? Is
there one particular voting procedure that is "best" among all others?
During the fall quarter, we will run a weekly workshop seminar on
voting procedures (and social choice theory more generally) to address
these important and timely issues.
READER: A comprehensive reader has been prepared as the basic text for
the workshop; see the website for more information.
TOPICS:
* Arrow's groundbreaking Impossibility Theorem demonstrating that that
certain "reasonable" properties of aggregation procedures cannot be
simultaneously satisfied
* The Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem showing that all "reasonable" voting
methods are manipulable
* Sen's Theorem demonstrating the impossibility of the "Paretian
liberal"
* Comparisons of different voting methods including plurality vote,
approval vote and Borda count
* Various voting paradoxes including the "no-show paradox" and the
"multiple elections paradox"
In addition, we will invite leading experts in the field to give special
lectures (consult the website for details). This workshop will be
suitable for advanced undergraduates, graduate students and interested
faculty in a variety of fields. Although some mathematics will be used
there are no special prerequisites.
Support from the Humanities Center and the Symbolic Systems Program is
gratefully acknowledged.
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CS547: HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SEMINAR
on Friday, 26 September 2008, 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B01
http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/
"New models for browsing"
Tristan Harris
Apture
http://www.crunchbase.com/person/tristan-harris
For the last decade, two main browsing models have seemingly dominated
the web navigation experience: 1) using the forward/back navigation
stack to navigate pages synchronously, and 2) opening new browser
windows and tabs to navigate pages asynchronously. Both of these
models respect the basic idea that the web should be composed
fundamentally of pages. But contemporary web "2.0" applications
continue to show us that there is a need for alternative models.
Apture is a new company pioneering new ways to both publish and browse
information more efficiently and in a richer format for the end user.
I will talk about several of these models, and demonstrate how it is
being applied to applications such as blogging and large online
publishing websites.
About the Speaker: Tristan Harris stopped out of the Stanford Computer
Science Masters program to start Apture. A Mayfield Fellow with the
Stanford Technology Ventures Program in entrepreneurship, Tristan is
an alumnus of Wikia and has two pending patents from his work at Apple
Computer. When not evangelizing Apture, he spends his time playing
Yann Tiersen music on the piano and dancing Argentine Tango in San
Francisco. Tristan holds a BS in Computer Science from Stanford, with
a focus in Human Computer Interaction.
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STANFORD SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS WORKSHOP
on Friday, 26 September 2008, 3:30pm
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/
"Sentence Embedding and Linguistic Relativity: Two Counterarguments"
Uli Sauerland
Stanford/ZAS
Researchers in language acquisition have found a correlation between
children's ability on tasks involving embedded clauses and Theory of
Mind or False Belief tasks (de Villiers and Peyers 2002, Lohmann and
Tomasello 2003, Tager-Flussberg, Schick et al. 2007). J. de Villiers
and others have advanced the hypothesis that the recursive syntax of
embedding is a trigger for Theory of Mind development (de Villiers &
de Villiers 2000).
I present two pieces of counterevidence to a strong link between
sentence embedding and theory of mind:
1) Children at age 25 month have recently been shown capable of false
belief understanding using eye-tracking (Southgate et al. 2007). I
show that even with use of eye-tracking, children at 42 month do
not yet understand embedded clauses.
2) I investigate languages claimed to lack recursion in
general or sentence embedding. Specifically, I show that sentence
embedding in Teiwa (Papuan) indeed does not require recursion at a
purely syntactic level (following Klahmer, to appear).
Nevertheless, semantically Teiwa can be shown to possess a full
system of sentence embedding.
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UC BERKELEY ICBS Seminar
on Friday, 26 September 2008, 4:00pm
Tolman 5101 (Berkeley)
http://icbs.berkeley.edu/
"Episodic memory encoding and retrieval:
a cognitive neuroscience perspective"
Mick Rugg
Center for the Neurobiology or Learning and Memory, UC Irvine
Encoding and retrieval are often treated as if they are independent
memory functions. Evidence from experimental psychology, however,
suggests that they are interdependent. This evidence fits well with
current ideas about the neurobiological basis of episodic memory, and
the two frameworks come together to make predictions about the
relationship between encoding- and retrieval-related neural activity
that can be tested in humans using functional neuroimaging. The talk
will describe recent studies motivated by these predictions, and will
argue that encoding and retrieval are interdependent at both the
psychological and the neural level.
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BERKELEY SCHOOL OF INFORMATION DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
on Wednesday, 1 October 2008, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
110 South Hall (Berkeley)
http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/about/events
"Enterprise Uses of Emerging Technologies"
Jonathan Grudin
Microsoft
Uses of novel digital technologies often start with students and are
eventually adopted, initially reluctantly, by enterprises. For the past six
years much of Grudin's research has focused on early enterprise adoption of
communication technologies including instant messaging, weblogs, wikis, and
social networking software such as Facebook and LinkedIn. The first half of
this presentation will outline a handful of patterns that emerged in
Grudin's 20 years of studying technology adoption. Grudin will follow with
an overview of enterprise uses of emerging technologies, with some
speculation as to where it may be heading.
About the Speaker: Jonathan Grudin is a Principal Researcher in
Microsoft's Adaptive Systems and Interaction Group. Prior to joining
MSR in 1998, he was Professor of Information and Computer Science at
UC Irvine. After obtaining degrees in physics and mathematics, he
worked as a software developer before earning a Ph.D. in cognitive
psychology with Don Norman at UCSD. After returning to industry, he
participated in CHI and CSCW from the outset. He has worked and taught
in England, Denmark, Japan, and Norway. He was editor of ACM
Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction from 1997-2003 and is
currently ACM Computing Surveys Associate Editor for Human-Computer
Interaction.
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UC BERKELEY CIS SEMINAR
on Thursday, 2 October 2008, 4:00pm-5:30pm
Soda Hall 310 (UC Berkeley)
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/CIS/seminars/seminars.html
"Statistical Parsing Fifteen Years Later"
Eugene Charniak
Brown University
The creation of the Penn-treebank fifteen years ago has revolutionized
work in parsing --- determining the syntactic structure of
natural-language sentences. The treebank's 1,000,000 words of human
parsed text suggested the application of statistical machine learning
techniques to the problem and I and others followed this
suggestion. This research program has proved remarkably
successful. Indeed, for English, and for "standard" newspaper text,
the problem can almost be considered solved in so far as there are
several parsers on the web that can produce quite acceptable parses
for all the articles in, say, today's New York Times. The bulk of this
talk will describe what has led to this happy state of affairs. At the
end we will look at where new work in the area is going. As you might
expect, it is largely on non-English or non-standard text.
About the Speaker: Eugene Charniak is University Professor of Computer
Science at Brown University and past chair of the department. He
received his A.B. degree in Physics from University of Chicago, and a
Ph.D. from M.I.T. in Computer Science. He has published four books the
most recent being Statistical Language Learning. He is a Fellow of the
American Association of Artificial Intelligence and was previously a
Councilor of the organization. His research has always been in the
area of language understanding or technologies which relate to
it. Over the last 15 years years he has been interested in statistical
techniques for many areas of language processing including parsing,
discourse and anaphora.
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BERKELEY AFFIX ORDERING WORKSHOP
on Saturday and Sunday, 4 and 5 October 2008, all day
UC Berkeley
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/events
The recent literature contains diverse proposals as to what principles
underlie the surface linear arrangement of morphemes in a word. Affix
ordering has been claimed to be driven by semantic factors (Bybee
1985, Rice 2000), syntactic scope (Baker 1985), selectional
restrictions (Plag 1999) psycholinguistic processing-based factors
(Hay 2002, Hay & Plag 2004), prosodic factors (Booij 2002, 2005),
morphophonological subcategorization frames (Yu 2007), and
morphological templates (Inkelas 1993, Hyman 2002, Nordlinger 2008),
not all of which are mutually exclusive (Paster 2005), but whose
precise nature and possibilities for interaction remain to be worked
out. The study of affix ordering thus forms an ideal testing ground
theories of morphology and its interfaces with other components of the
grammar.
Even as documentation of lesser studied languages brings to light new
patterns that challenge previous assumptions about possible affix
ordering systems (e.g. free, variable prefix ordering in Chintang;
Bickel et al. 2007), closer study of languages previously considered
arbitrary and templatic has revealed patterns of a more universal
semantic or syntactic nature (e.g. Athabaskan; Rice 2000).
This workshop aims at facilitating collaboration between theorists,
language specialists, typologists, and anyone interested in the study
of affix order. We invite papers from any perspective which explore
the complexity of affix ordering in specific languages, present
empirical challenges for current theories, and/or seek unified
explanations for the range of cross-linguistic affix ordering patterns
attested to date. Papers presenting original data from lesser studied
languages are particularly encouraged. Some possible questions
include, but are by no means limited to, the following: What are the
limits (if any) of semantics, syntax, and phonology in determining
affix order? How do these limits manifest themselves universally
and/or in specific languages? In cases where multiple factors interact
in the determination of affix order, what is the nature of this
interaction? Templates have often been used as a descriptive rather
than formal mechanism. But to the extent that some affix ordering
systems are genuinely templatic, what is the nature of the internal
structure of morphological templates? Are there cross-linguistic
constraints on these structures? Are some types of affix ordering
patterns characteristic of certain kinds of morphological systems
(e.g. inflectional, agglutinating, polysynthetic)? What aspects of
affix ordering are to be modeled synchronically in the grammar, versus
determined by grammar-external forces (e.g. processing, language
change)?
Workshop Program
Saturday, October 4
9:00- 9:10 Welcome
9:10-10:30 Session I
9:10- 9:50 "The Ordering of Affixes and Mirror Principle Violations
in Wolof"
Leston Buell (Leiden Centre for Linguistics),
Mariame Sy (Columbia University) & Harrold Torrence
(University of Kansas)
9:50-10:30 "On the order of morphemes in Georgian verbs and
substantives"
Alice Harris (SUNY Stony Brook)
10:40-12:40 Session II
10:40-11:20 "Affix ordering in Sierra Popoluca (Mixe-Zoque)"
Lynda Baudreault (UT Austin)
11:20-12:00 "Phonological Interpretation of Syntactic Heads: Affix
Ordering in Qafar"
Pierre Rucart (Université Lyon 2)
12:00-12:40 "Capturing the Affix Ordering in Korean: A Type-Based
Approach"
Jong-Bok Kim & Jaehyung Yang (Kyung Hee University, Seoul)
2:00- 2:50 Invited talk: Keren Rice (University of Toronto)
3:00- 5:00 Session III
3:00- 3:40 "Spatial affixes in syntax"
David Stringer (Indiana University)
3:40- 4:20 "Multiple preverbation in Homeric Greek: Affix-order
constraints in Path coding"
Caroline Imbert (CNRS - DDL/Université Lyon 2)
4:20- 5:00 "On the order of local case affixes"
Nina Radkevich (University of Connecticut)
5:10- 6:20 Session IV
5:10- 5:40 "Affix ordering in the Ojibwe word: evidence for phrasal
movement"
Eric Mathieu (University of Ottawa)
5:40- 6:20 "On morphosyntactic domains in Oji-Cree"
Tanya Slavin (University of Toronto)
Sunday, October 5
9:00-10:20 - Session V
9:00- 9:40 "Agglutinating order"
Jorge Hankamer (UC Santa Cruz)
9:40-10:20 "Gradient Morphotactics in Tagalog"
Kevin Ryan (UCLA)
10:20-11:10 Invited Talk: Sharon Inkelas (UC Berkeley)
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