On the 15th of September our new director Norbert Corver will inaugurate the 22-23 UiL-OTS (Institute for Language Science) Colloquium with a talk entitled There is plenty of manner!  All invited! Abstract There is plenty of manner in human life. When we do things, we often do them in a particular way. You wake up happily,…

Enoch Aboh will give a talk for the UiL-OTS Colloquium on the 16th of June. Title: t.b.a. More information to be found here

Lasha Abzianidze will give a talk at the next UiL-OTS Colloquium, on January 20 (15:30-17:00). The talk will be entitled Automating Natural Reasoning for Natural Language. More information and the link can be found here Abstract In general, detecting semantic relations between the meanings of sentences requires reasoning, and it represents a substantial part of…

On November 19 there will be a special session of the UiL-OTS colloquium entitled Data collection outside the lab. Host: René Kager Speakers: Alberto Frasson, Bregje Holleman, Paola Monachesi, Jacomine Nortier, and Olupemi Oludare

On January 21, David Adger (QMUL) will give a talk for the UiL-OTS Colloquium series. title and venue: t.b.a.

On September 17, Denis Paperno will give a talk at the UiL-OTS Colloquium series on Learning compositional semantics with artificial neural network models. Abstract Humans can interpret complex utterances they never heard before, like “Call the brother of the president of France”. This becomes possible because natural language is characterized by recursive hierarchical syntactic structures,…

On June 21, Norbert Corver will give the last UiL-OTS Colloquium lecture for this academic year. The title of the talk is Grammar Lore. All invited!