Seminars organised in 2008
- 19 December 2008: Prof. Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield and Oxford Internet Institute)
Companions: persistent agents as internet interfaces
Room MC130 at 15.00 - 16.30 - 05 November 2008: Dr. Veronique Hoste (LT3 Language and Translation Technology Team, School of Translation Studies, University College Ghent)
Language independent bilingual terminology extraction from a parallel corpus. The PSA test case.
Room MC125 at 4pm - 5.30pm - 08 October 2008: Dr. Horacio Saggion (Natural Language Processing Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK)
Applying Human Language Technology for Business Intelligence: The Musing Project
Room MA030 at 4-6 pm - 05 August 2008: Dr. Patrick Hanks (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)
Mapping Meaning onto Use: a Pattern Dictionary of English Verbs
Room MA221 at 12 - 13.30 - 04 August 2008: Dr. Michael P. Oakes (University of Sunderland)
Corpus Linguistics and Language Variation
Room MA112 at 15.00 - 16.30pm - 09 July 2008: Dr. Guadalupe Ruiz Yepes (Aston University, Birmingham, UK)
Corpus Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition – The use of ACORN in the teaching of Spanish Grammar
Room MC130 at 12.00 - 13.00 - 27 June 2008: Dr. Viktor Pekar (Research Group in Computational Linguistics, University of Wolverhampton)
Project report on AIR
Room MC130 at 14.15 - 15.30 - 11 June 2008: Prof Shalom Lappin (Department of Philosophy, King’s College London)
Expressiveness and Complexity in Underspecified Semantic Representation
Room MC415 at 3 - 4pm - 09 June 2008: Prof John Barnden (Figurative Language Research Group, School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham)
Metaphor, Metonymy and the ATT-Meta Computational Approach
Room MC125 at 3 - 4pm - 06 June 2008: Dr. Ruth Page (Birmingham City University, UK)
Gender and Story Genre in Online Narratives of Illness
Room MC130 at 2 - 3pm - 14 May 2008: Prof. Ricardo Sánchez de Madariaga (Computer Science Department, University of Alcala Madrid, Spain)
Domain differences in the nature of text corpora: an investigation through ambiguity
Room MC229 at 12.00 - 13.00 - 09 May 2008: Dr. Shiyan Ou (RGCL, University of Wolverhampton)
Automatic Question Pattern Generation for Ontology-based Question Answering
Room MC225 at 14:00 - 15:00 - 23 April 2008: Prof. Amparo Alcina (TecnoLeTTra Group, University Jaume I of Castellón, Spain )
Development of techniques and tools for elaborating onomasiological dictionaries useful for e-translation. ONTODIC and TXTCERAM projects
Room MC224 at 1 - 2pm - 04 April 2008: Dr. Jochen L. Leidner (Thomson Corporation)
Design, Implementation and Evaluation of the Alyssa Open-Domain Q&A System
Room MC324 at 2 - 3pm - 11 February 2008: Ramesh Krishnamurthy (University of Aston, Birmingham, UK)
The ACORN (Aston Corpus Network) project - helps you to learn languages, academic skills… and Computer Science?
Room MC414 at 14:30