Vilem Mathesius Lecture Series 21
1st week: November 27 – December 2, 2006
Time Schedule
Mon November 27 6 p.m. Opening Lecture at the Prague Linguistic Circle ("Roman Jakobson Lecture") given by prof. M. King (ISSCO, Geneva, Switzerland):Translation, Machine Translation ad Evaluation
Where: namesti Jana Palacha 2, Prague 1 (on the map), on the 1st floor, room No. 104Tue, Wed November 28, 29 Prague Treebanking for Everyone: A two-day tutorial
Where: Jose Martiho 407, Prague 6 (on the map), 2nd floor, room No. 249Thu November 30 A one-day workshop "Treebanking & Advanced Processing of Arabic". Fri, Sat December
1, 2A two-day conference "Treebanks and Linguistic Theories".
Where: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Malostranske nam. 25 (Lesser Town Square), Prague 1 (on the map)-
2nd week: December 4 – December 8, 2006
Where: Jose Martiho 407, Prague 6 (on the map), 2nd floor, room No. 249Scientific Programme
- Eugene Charniak (Brown University, RI, USA): New results in syntactic parsing
- Ciprian Chelba (Google, Kirkland, WA, USA): Spoken document retrieval
- Fred Jelinek (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA): TBA (new results in statistical methods)
- Martha Palmer (University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA): Computational Lexical Semantics
- Massimo Poessio (University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom): Empirical studies of anaphora and salience
- James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University, MA, USA): Empirical Approaches to Compositionality
- Daniel Tihelka, Jan Romportl (West University Plzen, Czech Republic):Introduction to Text-to-Speech Synthesis
Time Schedule
Slides and presentations are available.
9:30-11:00 11:30-13:00 14:30-16:00 16:30-18:00 Monday Palmer Pustejovsky PIRE meeting PIRE meeting Tuesday Palmer Charniak Jelinek Palmer Wednesday Tihelka, Romportl Poesio Chelba Charniak Thursday Poesio Pustejovsky Chelba -- Friday Poesio Pustejovsky Chelba --