Vilem Mathesius Lecture Series 21

1st week: November 27 – December 2, 2006

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. 104

Tue, 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. 249

Thu	November 30	A one-day workshop "Treebanking & Advanced Processing of Arabic".

Fri, Sat	December 1, 2	A two-day conference "Treebanks and Linguistic Theories". Where: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Malostranske nam. 25 (Lesser Town Square), Prague 1 (on the map)

Where: Jose Martiho 407, Prague 6 (on the map), 2nd floor, room No. 249

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