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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 1 October 2008, vol. 24:5
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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1 October 2008 Stanford Vol. 24, No. 5
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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 1 OCTOBER 2008 TO 10 OCTOBER 2008
WEDNESDAY, 1 OCTOBER 2008
3:30pm SRI CCB Seminar Series [1-Oct-08]
Enterprise room EL306, SRI International
"Opening Access to Science"
Catherine Nancarrow
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Abstract below
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 EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium [1-Oct-08]
Gates B03
"Issues in Mainstream Clusters"
Richard Kaufmann
Hewlett Packard
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
THURSDAY, 2 OCTOBER 2008
11:30am CCRMA Hearing Seminar [2-Oct-08]
CCRMA Seminar Room, The Knoll
"ISMIR Conference Review Discussion"
Malcolm Slaney, Ge Wang, Craig Sapp, Jeremy Pickens
CCRMA
http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/hearing-seminar
Abstract below
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 SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum [2-Oct-08]
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
"What we did this summer"
Summer Internship Students
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
Information below
4:15pm Information Systems Seminar [2-Oct-08]
Packard 101
Title to be announced
Edmund Yeh
Yale
http://isl.stanford.edu/colloquium.html
6:00pm Media X Lecture Series [2-Oct-08]
Wallenberg Hall Learning theater (Bldg. 160:124)
"Motivating Knowledge Sharing in a Global Enterprise"
Kristian Torning
The Danfoss Group
http://mediax.stanford.edu/
Abstract below
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 noon Logical Methods in the Humanities [3-Oct-08]
Cordura 100
"Arrow's Theorem: proofs and discussions"
http://ai.stanford.edu/~epacuit/lmh/
(please rsvp to Jesse Alama (alama .. stanford.edu))
Abstract below
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)
"Stewardship and Cultural Memory Organizations in the Digital Age --
Part II"
Clifford Lynch
UC Berkeley
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/f08/schedule.html
Abstract below
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
MONDAY, 6 OCTOBER 2008
4:00pm UC Berkeley Linguistics Department Colloquium [6-Oct-08]
182 Dwinelle (Berkeley)
"Processing Factors in the Study of Island Effects"
Ivan Sag
Stanford
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/events/
Abstract below
TUESDAY, 7 OCTOBER 2008
4:00pm SRI AI Seminar Series [7-Oct-08]
EJ228, SRI International
"The Wason Task(s) and The Paradox of Confirmation"
Branden Fitelson
UC Berkeley
http://fitelson.org/
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
Abstract below
4:15pm Stanford Algorithms Seminar [7-Oct-08]
Gates 498
"Nash Bargaining via Flexible Budget Markets"
Vijay Vazirani
Georgia Tech
http://theory.stanford.edu/~aflb/
WEDNESDAY, 8 OCTOBER 2008
4:00pm Berkeley School of Information Distinguished Lecture [8-Oct-08]
202 South Hall (Berkeley)
"Blue Smoke, No Mirrors: Confessions of an Information User"
Alan Kantrow
Monitor Group
http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/about/events
Abstract below
4:00pm Berkeley International Computer Science Institute
ICSI Lecture Hall, 1947 Center Street, Suite 600 (UC Berkeley)
"Highlights of the First 20 Years of Algorithms research at ICSI"
Richard M. Karp
ICSI Algorithms Group
http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu
Abstract below
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Lab Colloquium [8-Oct-08]
Gates B03
"Excubate: A new model of new technology business development"
Ted Selker
Media Lab, MIT
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
Abstract below
THURSDAY, 9 OCTOBER 2008
3:30pm Symposium of Undergraduate Research and Public Service [9-Oct-08]
McCaw Hall, Arrillaga Alumni Center
Poster session on undergraduate research
http://ual.stanford.edu/OO/research_opps/SURPS.html
4:00pm SRI AI Seminar Series [9-Oct-08]
EJ228, SRI International
"3-D Audio Capture and Reproduction"
Aaron J Heller
SRI AI
http://www.ai.sri.com/~heller
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
4:00pm UC Berkeley CIS Seminar [9-Oct-08]
Soda Hall 310 (UC Berkeley)
"EM Works for Pronoun-Anaphora Resolution"
Eugene Charniak
Brown University
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/CIS/seminars/seminars.html
Abstract below
4:15pm Information Systems Seminar [9-Oct-08]
Packard 101
Title to be announced
Thomas Cover
Stanford University
http://www.stanford.edu/~cover/
http://isl.stanford.edu/colloquium.html
6:00pm Swedish and Norwegian Poetry Evening [9-Oct-08]
Peter Wallenberg Learning Theater Lounge 127, Wallenberg Hall
Ingvild Burkey, Li Li
For information, contact Adelaide Dawes <adelaide .. stanford.edu>
FRIDAY, 10 OCTOBER 2008
10:00am SRI AI Seminar Series [10-Oct-08]
EJ228, SRI International
"The Role of Appearance in Mapping and Navigation"
Derik Schroeter
University of Oxford
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
Abstract below
11:00am Berkeley Institute of Cognitive and Brain Seminar [10-Oct-08]
Tolman 5101 (Berkeley)
"Pronunciation variation as a tool for psycholinguistic research"
Susanne Gahl
Linguistics and Cognitive Science Program, UC Berkeley
http://icbs.berkeley.edu/
Abstract below
12 noon Logical Methods in the Humanities [10 Oct 08]
Cordura 100
"A survey of voting procedures and paradoxes"
http://ai.stanford.edu/~epacuit/lmh/
12:30pm CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar [10 Oct 08]
Gates B01
"Visualizing Voice"
Karrie Karahalios
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/
Abstract below
3:00pm Berkeley Information Access Seminar [10 Oct 08]
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
"The Evolving Concept of 'Digital Libraries'"
M. Buckland, R. Larson & C. Lynch
Also a report from guest Niels Windfeld Lund, University of
Tromso, Norway
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/f08/schedule.html
3:15pm Philosophy Department Colloquium [10 Oct 08]
Bldg. 90:92Q
Title to be announced
Tim Williamson
University of Oxford
http://www-philosophy.stanford.edu/ce.html
3:30pm Stanford Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop [10 Oct 08]
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
"Or Constructions: Meaning and Use"
Mira Ariel
Tel Aviv
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/
Abstract below
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ANNOUNCEMENT
Speech Lunch
Fridays, 12 noon
Jordan 065
This is a general info announcement about Speech Lunch. I would like
to encourage anyone interested in anything speechy to attend Speech
Lunch. Every Friday throughout the academic year, a bunch of students
and faculty get together to discuss papers or projects. This is an
informal venue which you can feel comfortable discussing any aspect of
a project -- potential topics, design, analysis, or data. Speech
Lunch is here for you to both benefit from a lively audience and to
become informed about research others are doing.
We meet every Friday from 12:00pm - 1:00pm in the Linguistics Lab
(basement of Jordan Hall, Room 065, behind the Thai Cafe). I am
including a list of dates available for anyone who is interested in
informally talking about their project(s). Please let me know which
date you would like to take :o)
October 10 - first meeting
October 17
October 24
October 31
November 7
November 14
November 21
December 5
From this point on, all correspondence about Speech Lab will be
administered via the Speech Lunch mailing list. If you would like to
receive future messages about this group, please subscribe to our
email list. To do this, send a blank email message to
speech-lunch-join .. lists.stanford.edu
-- Meghan Sumner, sumner .. stanford.edu
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SRI CCB SEMINAR SERIES
on Wednesday, 1 October 2008, 3:30pm
Enterprise room EL306, SRI International
"Opening Access to Science"
Catherine Nancarrow
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
The internet changed scholarly publishing profoundly and forever. It
created new possibilities for how to disseminate peer-reviewed
information quickly, efficiently, and globally. In the scientific
community, it has opened the door to collaborations and innovations
that would increase the speed to knowledge and discovery in areas
ranging from physics to phylogenetics. But even today, the majority
of the best literature is locked away behind access controls. Then, a
sea change began in 2000, when a group of scientists, frustrated by
having access to only the abstract of articles in PubMed, set their
minds to opening access to the scientific literature and making it a
public resource.
The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is now but one leader in the
movement to achieve this goal. It has accomplished much, alone and
with strong associations and partnerships, but the landscape of how
publishers disseminate and the community accesses peer-reviewed
science continues to change. This presentation is intended to provide
an overview of how PLoS and other publishers, funders, institutions,
and researchers are working to ensure that the direction of change is
toward more, rather than, less access to what they need to drive
science forward.
About the speaker: Catherine Nancarrow is the Managing Editor of
PLoS Genetics, PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Neglected Tropical
Diseases, and PLoS Pathogens. When she joined PLoS in 2005, she
brought with her more than a decade of experience as both managing
editor and development editor on peer-reviewed medical journals
(wjm-western journal of medicine, Journal of Immunology, and American
Journal of Roentgenology) and multivolume health science texts
(ranging from Wintrobe's Hematology and The AIDS Knowledge Base to
Equine Veterinary Medicine).
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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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CCRMA HEARING SEMINAR
on Thursday, 2 October 2008, 11:30am
CCRMA Seminar Room, The Knoll
http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/hearing-seminar
The hearing seminar returns to CCRMA with a discussion this week of
the best papers and results from the recent ISMIR meeting. ISMIR is
the International Conference on Music-Information Retrieval, and all
the best papers on understanding music and helping people find the
music they want are presented here. The latest meeting was a couple
of weeks ago in Philadelphia.
I'm happy to announce that a number of distinguished friends-of-CCRMA
will be leading the discussion. The four of us will describe our
favorite papers, and answer questions. --Malcolm Slaney
"ISMIR Conference Review Discussion"
Malcolm Slaney, CCRMA and Yahoo! Research
Ge Wang, CCRMA
Craig Sapp, CCRMA and University of London
Jeremy Pickens, fxPAL
http://ismir2008.ismir.net/program
If you want to find more information about the meeting (and the
papers) check out
http://ismir2008.ismir.net/program
The papers I liked talked about how to decompose music and how to
characterize a performance or a signal, among others.
This will be a great way to catch up with the hottest ideas and
results from the music-retrieval field. I invite you to bring your
favorite music-perceivers and join the discussion.
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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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SSP10: SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM
on Thursday, 2 October 2008, 4:15pm
Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
"What we did this summer"
Summer Internship Students
4:15 Introduction - Todd Davies
4:20 Rachel Habbert, "Concrete Thinking and its Impact on Decision Making"
(supervisor: James Gross)
4:25 Mike Mellenthin, "Human Robot Interaction" (supervisor: John Fry)
4:30 Jonathan Kass, "Cognitive Load Measurement in Varying Note-taking
Interfaces" (supervisors: Patrick Ehlen and Stanley Peters)
4:35 Conal Sathi and Jane Huang, "Coaching Dialogue" (supervisors: Elizabeth
Owen Bratt and Stanley Peters)
4:45 Kevin Leung, "A Feasibility Study of Transfer Learning in Football Play
Design" (supervisors: Kamal Ali and Dan Shapiro)
4:50 Steven Bills and Mike Mintz, "Relation Discovery" (supervisors: Dan
Jurafsky and Rion Snow)
5:00 Ben Kessler Reynolds, "A Bit of This, a Lot of 'That': Grammaticality
Judgments of Native English Speakers" (supervisors: Ivan Sag and
Tom Wasow)
5:05 Reid Chandler, "Modality Choice" (supervisor: Todd Davies)
5:10 Anna Schapiro, "Modeling Semantic Knowledge in the Anterior Temporal
Lobes" (supervisors: Jay McClelland and Matt Lambon Ralph
[University of Manchester])
5:15 Brenden Lake, "Semi-Supervised Learning in People" (supervisor: Jay
McClelland)
5:20 Anna Ravenscroft, "Development of Therapeutic Learning Environments for
Children with Executive Function Disorder" (supervisors: David
Wilkins and Victor Carrion)
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MEDIA X LECTURE SERIES
On Thursday, 2 October 2008, 6:00pm
Wallenberg Hall Learning theater (Bldg. 160:124)
http://mediax.stanford.edu/
"Motivating Knowledge Sharing in a Global Enterprise"
Kristian Torning
The Danfoss Group
With an offset in a case study of knowledge workers in a global
industrial engineering corporation the rhetorical situation for
knowledge sharing is described and discussed. In the case study a new
portal system is to be introduced and knowledge workers are to be
given the task of innovating and maintaining business processes, thus
contributing with content in an internal online environment.
Qualitative data was gathered and an analysis revealed that there are
many good reasons why sharing would not occur with the current setup.
About the Speaker: Kristian Torning works as a researcher for The
Danfoss Group, where he is investigating how rhetorical communication
theory can be applied when designing interactive computer systems.
Kristians work is concerned with the situation for knowledge sharing
in globally dispersed corporations and how we might design systems
that would persuade a larger degree of sharing. He is a visiting
researcher at Stanfords H-STAR institute in Q4 2008. Kristian has a
background in interaction design: He has worked designing adaptive eye
input interfaces using classical HCI models, he has worked in new
media broadcasting producing online communities and he has worked
designing mobile business solutions for Microsoft Dynamics.
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LOGICAL METHODS IN THE HUMANITIES
on Friday, 3 October 2008, 12 noon
Cordura 100
http://ai.stanford.edu/~epacuit/lmh/
"Arrow's Theorem: proofs and discussions"
(please rsvp to Jesse Alama (alama .. stanford.edu))
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. For example, here in the US we use Plurality Voting to
choose our leaders while Australia uses a more complex procedure
called Single Transferable Voting. 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.
A comprehensive reader has been prepared as the basic text for our
work; see the link to Topics and Readings on web site. In addition we
shall invite leading experts in the field to give some special
lectures. This workshop will be suitable for advanced undergraduates,
graduate students and interested faculty in a variety of fields;
though some mathematics will be used there are no special
prerequisites.
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BERKELEY INFORMATION ACCESS SEMINAR
on Friday, 3 October 2008, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
107 South Hall (Berkeley)
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/f08/schedule.html
"Stewardship and Cultural Memory Organizations in the Digital Age --
Part II"
Clifford Lynch
Berkeley
This session continues the discussion I started at the September 12
seminar about the changing nature of cultural memory organizations in
the digital world. While the earlier conversation focused largely on
the implications of converting the existing (retrospective) cultural
and intellectual record into digital form, the focus of this
presentation will be on the changing nature of the now increasingly
digital record as we go foward, and what that means for the roles and
practices of cultural memory organizations, and indeed for the nature
of cultural memory in the digital world.
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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 (Universite' 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/Universite' 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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UC BERKELEY LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
on Monday, 6 October 2008, 4:00pm
182 Dwinelle (Berkeley)
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/events/
"Processing Factors in the Study of Island Effects"
Ivan Sag
Linguistics, Stanford
Competence-based theories of island effects are abundant in generative
grammar, yet the graded nature of many syntactic islands (Ross 1986;
Deane 1991; Kluender 1992) has never been properly accounted for. We
argue that this is primarily because the processing (performance)
factors that interact with the grammar of filler-gap constructions
have never been properly controlled in the datasets island theories
seek to explain. Processing factors are known to play a significant
role in the perception of (un)acceptability (Miller & Chomsky, 1963;
Bever 1970; Osterhout, Holcomb, Swinney, 1994) -- an excessive
sentence processing load can lead to lower acceptability, as well as
slowed reading times, slowed response times, and decreased response
accuracy.
We have examined the role of processing factors in a range of
CNPC/`Subjacency'/Wh-island and Superiority effects. I will summarize
data from self-paced reading-time experiments and controlled
acceptability studies that isolate the effects of various factors that
have not been properly controlled in generative research. Most
notable among these is the informativity of the filler (which-NP
vs. who/what). Other factors include the accessibility of referential
elements intervening between the filler and the gap, the finiteness of
intervening verbs, lexical frequency effects, and various semantic and
pragmatic issues that contribute to processing difficulty.
We argue that once these diverse effects are properly isolated,
competence grammars have no need for such principles as CNPC,
Subjacency, WH-Island Condition, Superiority or the Minimal Link
Condition. This `minimalist' approach truly simplifies grammar, while
maximizing the explanatory effect of factors known independently to
contribute to processing difficulty, some of which may ultimately be
derived from more general considerations of processing architecture
(e.g. Gibson 2000) or memory (Hofmeister 2007).
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SRI AI SEMINAR SERIES
on Tuesday, 7 October 2008, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
EJ228, SRI International
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
"The Wason Task(s) and The Paradox of Confirmation"
Branden Fitelson
UC Berkeley
The Wason task is a simple experiment, which seems to reveal a
"blindspot" in human reasoning, when it comes to inferences that
involve contraposition. I will sketch out an analogy between the
Wason Task(s) and the Paradox of Confirmation. This will mainly
involve going through some existing historical discussions concerning
the analogy, and developing a precise framework for refining and
critiquing the analogy. I will explain what I think is right about the
existing literature, and also what I think is wrong with it (i.e.,
what I think the disanalogies are). Along the way, I will make various
historical observations about confirmation theory and some of the
contemporary evaluative assessments of the behavior of subjects faced
with Wason Task(s).
About the Speaker: Branden Fitelson is an Associate Professor in the
philosophy department at UC-Berkeley. He also is a member of the Group
in Logic and the Methodology of Science and the Cognitive Science Core
Faculty at Berkeley. Branden has held non-teaching positions at NASA's
Goddard Space Flight Center and (more recently) at Argonne National
Laboratory. Before joining the philosophy department at Berkeley,
Branden held teaching positions (in Philosophy) at the University of
Wisconsin at Madison, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Stanford University, and San Jose State University. His current
research interests include the foundations of inductive logic and
probability, automated reasoning (what used to be called automated
theorem proving), and the psychology of inference. For more
information about Branden's research and teaching, see his website, at
<http://fitelson.org/>.
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BERKELEY SCHOOL OF INFORMATION DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
on Wednesday, 8 October 2008, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
202 South Hall (Berkeley)
http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/about/events
"Blue Smoke, No Mirrors: Confessions of an Information User"
Alan Kantrow
Monitor Group
Much of the information that professionals (and professional advisors)
deploy to shape and deliver their service offerings suffers from
defects in orientation, focus, and framing, as well as from
sloth. This "report from the front lines" takes a frustrated user's
eye view of these problems, explores their roots and their
consequences, and reflects on the research agenda needed to help set
things right.
About the Speaker: Alan M. Kantrow is a senior partner and the Chief
Content Officer of Monitor Group, a closely-linked global family of
content-driven and competitiveness-focused professional services
firms, as well as the Dean of Faculty of Monitor University.
Previously, he was for a decade Monitor's Chief Knowledge Officer. At
present, he is also a member of the Board of Advisors of the firm's
Monitor Technology and eMonitor business units --- the former, a
network of external scientific and technical experts; the latter, a
designer and developer of both content and delivery platforms for
on-line learning, knowledge management, professional development, and
real-time performance support. Alan holds a Ph.D. from Harvard
University in the History of American Civilization, where he was a
Whiting Fellow in the Humanities, and an A.B. from Harvard College in
Anthropology (summa cum laude), where he was a Phi Beta Kappa.
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BERKELEY INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE
on Wednesday, 8 October 2008, 4:00pm
Main Lecture Hall, Suite 600, ICSI, 1947 Center Street, Berkeley
http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/
"Highlights of the First 20 Years of Algorithms research at ICSI"
Richard M. Karp
ICSI Algorithms Group
Hundreds of computer scientists have visited the Algorithms Group,
including a stream of outstanding young theoreticians from Germany. In
the early years Michael Luby and Lenore Blum, along with Richard Karp,
were the mainstays of the group, and the emphasis was on combinatorial
algorithms, complexity theory and cryptography. In the period 1995-98
Michael Luby led the development of Tornado Codes, a remarkable tool
for bulk transfer of data over the Internet. From 1999 onward there
the Algorithms Group worked closely with ICSI's networking researchers,
with striking advances in peer-to-peer networks. More recently Eran
Halperin has led groundbreaking activity in statistical genetics, and
Richard Karp, in collaboration with outstanding visitors from Israel,
has investigated the pathways and networks that regulate the
activities of living cells.
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EE380: COMPUTER SYSTEMS LAB COLLOQUIUM
on Wednesday, 8 October 2008, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
Gates B03
http://ee380.stanford.edu/contents.html
"Excubate: A new model of new technology business development"
Ted Selker
Media Lab, MIT
Innovation cultures exist in self funded and venture funded
entrepreneurial activities, universities, and large research
labs. What are the various values and strengths of the different
models for innovation business development ? This the talk will
expand beyond the problems of open innovation and offer a new
entrepreneurial investment model which can increases innovation's
chances for success.
Excubation will support ideas and people though competitions to reduce
risks of starting new technology companies. A prototyping team will
create competing new ideas to find ones that could make great
companies. The successful ideas then become part of open funded
competitions to test market viability and teams that might take the
company forward. The original prototyping team and serious business
experts are part of evaluating and mentoring the participants to
create successful technology companies.
About the Speaker: Dr. Ted Selker develops and tests new user
experiences. He spent ten years as an associate professor at the MIT
Media Laboratory where he ran the Context Aware Computing group,
co-directed the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, and directed
the Counter Design Intelligence: product design of the future
project. His work is noted for creating demonstrations of a world in
which human intentions are recognized and respected in complex
domains, such as kitchens, cars, on phones, and in email. Ted's work
takes the form of prototyping concept products supported by cognitive
science research.
Prior to joining the MIT faculty in November 1999, Ted was an IBM
fellow and directed the User Systems Ergonomics Research Lab. He has
served as a consulting professor at Stanford University, worked at
Xerox PARC and Atari Research Labs, and taught at Hampshire College,
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Brown University.
Ted's research has contributed to products ranging from notebook
computers to operating systems. For example, his design of the
TrackPoint in-keyboard pointing device is currently used in many
notebooks, his visualizations have been responsible for performance
and usability improvements in products, and his adaptive help system
has been part of many IT products as well. Ted's work has resulted in
numerous awards, patents, and papers and has often been featured in
the press. He was co-recipient of the Computer Science Policy Leader
Award for Scientific American 50 in 2004 and the American Association
for People with Disabilities Thomas Paine Award for his work on voting
technology in 2006.
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UC BERKELEY CIS SEMINAR
on Thursday, 9 October 2008, 4:00pm-5:30pm
Soda Hall 310 (UC Berkeley)
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/CIS/seminars/seminars.html
"EM Works for Pronoun-Anaphora Resolution"
Eugene Charniak
Brown University
EM (the Expectation Maximization Algorithm) is a well known technique
for unsupervised learning (where one does not have any hand labeled
solutions available, but instead one must learn from the raw
text). Unfortunately EM is known to fail to find good solutions in
many (most?) applications on which it is tried. In this talk we
present some recent work on using EM to learn how to resolve
pronoun-anaphora: determining that "the dog" is the antecedent of "he"
and "his" in "When Sally fed the dog he wagged his tail". For this
application EM works strikingly well, determining tens of thousands of
parameters and resulting in a program that advances the current state
of the art.
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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SRI AI SEMINAR SERIES
on Friday, 10 October 2008, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
EJ228, SRI International
http://www.ai.sri.com/seminars/
"The Role of Appearance in Mapping and Navigation"
Derik Schroeter
University of Oxford
The use of appearance information in robotics has experienced a
renaissance in recent years, largely due to significant advances in
the machine vision community. In particular, the availability of fast
and robust interest point detectors and descriptors has paved the way
to ever more complex machine vision tasks being routinely integrated
into robotic systems. This progress has led to the emergence of new
and exciting opportunities while at the same time changing our notion
of classic robotics challenges. In particular, appearance-based
techniques developed in the computer vision domain have emerged as a
valuable complement to state-of-the-art SLAM solutions. A prime
example is the robust closing of large loops in a vehicles trajectory
using an appearance-based visual loop-closing engine. The salient
point here is that the data-association problem can be addressed
without metric reasoning considering what things look like as opposed
to where they appear to be. Further, combined with efficient machine
learning techniques, appearance information is paving the way to ever
more abstract semantic representations of sensor data an area of
increasing importance for autonomous operations in complex outdoor
environments.
This talk aims to illustrate the impact of appearance-based methods on
robotics by outlining three distinct applications. The first part
considers the creation of large-scale topological maps of an
environment using a generative probabilistic approach. In the second
part we describe an appearance-based method of navigating such a
topological map. Finally, we describe the appearance-based extraction
of semantic labels from sensor data of outdoor urban environments.
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BERKELEY INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SEMINAR
on Friday, 10 October 2008, 11:00am
Tolman 5101 (Berkeley)
http://icbs.berkeley.edu/
"Pronunciation variation as a tool for psycholinguistic research"
Susanne Gahl
Linguistics and Cognitive Science Program, UC Berkeley
Tokens of the same word or sentence will usually sound slightly
different, due to variations in speaking rate, voice quality, and a
myriad of other linguistic and non-linguistic factors. Research in the
Linguistics department's Psycholinguistics lab uses variation in
pronunciation as a window on the mechanisms underlying language
production. A particular focus of our research is on ways in which
pronunciation variation reveals the probabilistic and malleable nature
of linguistic knowledge. A working hypothesis guiding our research is
that probabilities at all levels of linguistic structure affect
language production and comprehension. Pronunciation variation in
part reflects these probabilities. This talk will describe several
studies examining the sources and theoretical implications of
pronunciation variation.
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CS547: HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SEMINAR
on Friday, 10 October 2008, 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B01
http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/
"Visualizing Voice"
Karrie Karahalios
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Audio communication research to date has been primarily dominated by
work in the areas of speech recognition, transmission and compression,
synthesis, computer music theory, and some music information
retrieval. Looking at many research laboratories and universities, we
tend to find audio processing groups focusing exclusively on the above
areas.
In the area of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), research in audio is
in the minority. For example, there are several textual search
engines and even image search engines, yet barely a voice browser for
public use. One reason is that a voice or audio browser relies
heavily on speech recognition and audio classification which are not
very accurate in general use scenarios. Given different speakers and
different speaking environments, the problem becomes increasingly more
difficult.
In this talk, we are taking a step back and looking at voice from a
simpler perspective. We will show examples of conversational
dynamics, retreaval through the use of a real time voice visualization
on a tabletop, and examples of new interactions by using this
interface as a social mirror.
About the Speaker: Karrie Karahalios is an assistant professor in
computer science at the University of Illinois where she heads the
Social Spaces Group. Her work focuses on the interaction between
people and the social cues they perceive in networked electronic
spaces. Of particular interest are interfaces for pubic online and
physical gathering spaces such as chatrooms, cafes, parks, etc. The
goal is to create interfaces that enable users to perceive
conversational patterns that are present, but not obvious, in
traditional communication interfaces.
Karrie completed a S.B. in electrical engineering, an M.Eng. in
electrical engineering and computer science, and an S.M. and Ph.D in
media arts and science at MIT.
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STANFORD SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS WORKSHOP
on Friday, 10 October 2008, 3:30pm
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/
"Or Constructions: Meaning and Use"
Mira Ariel
Tel Aviv University
Meaning and use are two sides of the same linguistic coin (Ariel,
2008). Meaning enables and restricts use, and use reinforces old
meanings and motivates new ones. It's a vibrant circle. Yet, the two
remain apart. Semanticists and pragmatists tend to focus on meaning,
ignoring or remaining naive about use. Ignoring use in natural
conversation has led pragmatists to imagine how natural use "must be",
based on "armchair" functional explanations (Horn, 1972 and onwards,
Levinson, 2000). Functionalists, on the other hand, tend to privilege
use over meaning. They have too often been seduced by the frequent
discourse pattern, ignoring infrequent uses. But speakers don't ignore
the infrequent.
Linguists (of all stripes) have taken the most salient feature of
disjunctions to be the distinct alternatives they seem to
present. Here's an example of a classical case:
1. STEPHANIE: it was either Funniest Home Videos,
or they were filming a fi- a movie, (SBC: 035).
Note that each disjunct here presents a distinct alternative, the
reading is exclusive (the alternatives are incompatible with each
other), no other relevant alternatives are entertained by the speaker,
and so, exactly one of the alternatives must be true. Note also that
each disjunct contains a complete, indicative sentence, and the fact
that (1) contains not just or but also either is considered
irrelevant. Alas, such "well-behaved" disjunctions and interpretations
are extremely rare in conversation, as evidenced in the Santa Barbara
Corpus of Spoken American English. I will argue that natural
discourse shows a whole variety of interpretations associated with
disjunctive constructions, and that what form the disjunction takes
matters to its interpretation. Either X or Y; X or rather/instead Y; X
or contra realis Y (X or I'm a monkey's uncle); X or undesired Y (do
or die); X or X (Am I right, or am I right?); X or not X (to be or not
to be); and X or something must each receive a separate constructional
analysis. Intonation contour, Intonation Unit boundaries, and
sentential versus phrasal disjunctions are all relevant to how we use
and interpret disjunctions.
But the most dramatic finding is that the basic X or Y construction is
not all that different from the X or something (like that)
construction, in that very often, only one general concept is proposed
by the speaker, despite the fact that two (or more) alternatives are
mentioned explicitly. Consider:
2. NORA: Wonder who was the ruler.
in nineteen ten.
DIANE: Who was the king or queen? (SBC: 023)
Diane does not think that Nora is interested in finding out `either
who the king was, or else who the queen (who could be the king's wife)
was'. Rather, the king or queen are intended as instances of a larger
concept, that of the primary monarch, which the addressee needs to
construct. I will argue that this is the basic function of X or Y
constructions in discourse. Although the meaning of the disjunction
specifies two (or more) alternatives (each disjunct describing an
objectively distinct state of affairs in the world), discoursally,
many disjunctions serve to introduce only one concept, and to support
a single discourse point. The semantic meaning commonly assumed,
namely, that at least one disjunct must be intended by the speaker,
will be questioned too. In sum, my analysis revises both the semantic
meaning and the pragmatic functions in discourse that are to be
attributed to or.
References
Ariel, Mira. 2008. Pragmatics and grammar. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
Horn, Laurence R. 1972. On the semantic properties of the logical operators
in English. Mimeo, Indiana University Linguistics Club.
Levinson, Stephen C. 2000. Presumptive meanings: The theory of
generalized conversational implicature. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
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