Past Events
Spring 2012
2 March, Friday, Natural Language Processing
Sarah Hoffman (FactSet)
Title: Information Extraction from Financial Documents
Room: 4102
Time: 2:15pm-3:30pm
28 February, Tuesday, Syntax Supper
Caitlin Light (Univ. Penn.)
Title: The syntax and pragmatics of fronting in Germanic
Room: 7102
6:30-8:pm
24 February, Friday, Natural Language Processing
Naushad UzZaman (Rochester)
Title: Interpreting the Temporal Aspects of Language
Room: 4102
Time: 2:15pm-3:30pm
24 February, Friday, Sociolinguistics Lunch
Sonia Das (NYU)
Title: You Speak "Written" Tamil and I Write "Spoken" Tamil: Trans/National Ideologies and Multilingual Practices
Room: 3309
2pm-4pm
17 February, Friday, Natural Language Processing
Kevin Knight (USC)
Title: Language Translation and Code-Breaking
Room: C197
Time: 2:15pm-3:30pm
7 February, Tuesday, Syntax Supper
Bradley Larson (Univ. Maryland, College Park)
Title: WYSIWYG RNR
Room: 7102
6:30-8:pm
9 February, Thursday, Colloquium
Maria Polinsky (Harvard)
Title:The Syntax of Ergatives
Room: 6417
4:15pm-6pm
11 -13 January, 2012
Phonology Forum: Conference on the Segment
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Fall 2011
30 August, Tuesday, Syntax Supper
Cori Anderson (Princeton Univ.)
Title: Case & Event Structure: Evidence from Russian & Lithuanian
Room: 7102
6:30-8:pm
1 September, Thursday, Colloquium
Adam Albright (MIT)
Title: Grammar constrains phonological complexity
Room: C198 (Concourse Level)
4:15pm-6pm
8 September, Thursday, Professional Development
LaTeX Workshop part I
Room: C415B
4:15pm-6:15pm
9 September, Friday, Natural Language Processing
Heng Ji (CUNY, Queens & Graduate Center)
Title: Leveraging Redundancy for Cross-Source Information Extraction
Room: 4102
Time: 2:15pm-3:30pm
13 September, Tuesday, Syntax Supper
Julio Villa-Garcia (UConn)
Title: On Complementizer Reduplication: The Case of Spanish
Room: 7102
6:30-8:pm
15 September, Thursday, Professional Development
LaTeX Workshop part II
Room: C415B
4:15pm-6:15pm
16 September, Friday, Sociolinguistics Lunch
Rudi Gaudio (SUNY Purchase)
Title: Naijá Dey Laugh: Stand-up Comedy and the Nigerian Pidgin Nation
Room: 8106
2pm-4pm
20 September, Tuesday, Psycholinguistics Supper
Erin Quirk (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: A computational analysis of grammar change and grammar similarity
Tomonori Nagano (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: Acquisition of English verb transitivity by native speakers of Japanese
Taylor Cassidy & Danny Nassre (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: Speech segmentation and word discovery: PARSER
Room: 7102
6:30-8:00 pm
22 September, Thursday, Professional Development
LaTeX Workshop part III
Room: C415B
4:15pm-6:15pm
27 September, Tuesday, Syntax Supper
Inna Livitz (NYU)
Title: Silence of PRO and the interaction of focus with embedded pronominal subjects
Room: 7102
6:30-8:pm
6 October, Thursday, Colloquium
Kay Gonzalez-Vilbazo (University of Illinois at Chicago)
(in collaboration with Laura Bartlett)
Title: Merge, select, and code-switching
Room: 9207
4:15pm-6pm
11 October, Tuesday, Psycholinguistics Supper
Janet Dean Fodor (CUNY Graduate Center) & Stefanie Nickels (McGill University)
Title: Center-embedded sentences: What’s pronounceable is comprehensible
Room: 7102
6:30-8:pm
14 October, Friday, Natural Language Processing
Alexis Heloir (DFKI)
Title: Sign Language Avatars: Animation and Comprehensibility
Room: 4102
Time: 2:15pm-3:30pm
18 October, Tuesday, Syntax Supper
Satarupa Das (GC CUNY)
Room: 7102
6:30-8:pm
25 October, Tuesday, Psycholinguistics Supper
Bob Frank (Yale University)
Title: What can we learn about mental grammar from statistical learning?
Room: 7102
6:30-8:pm
1 November, Tuesday, Syntax Supper
Dustin Chacon (Maryland)
Title: Word Formation in the Narrow Syntax
Room: 7102
6:30-8:pm
3 November, Thursday, Colloquium
Martin Hackl (MIT)
Title: Detecting Covert Movement in Real Time
Room: C201 (Concourse Level)
4:15pm-6pm
4 November, Friday, Sociolinguistics Lunch
Karl Swinehart (UPenn)
Title: Commitment in Commentary: Evidentiality in Aymara Political Discource
Room: 7395
2pm-4pm
8 November, Tuesday, Psycholinguistics Supper
Andrew Rosenberg (Queens College & Graduate Center, CUNY)
Title: It's not just what you say, but how you say it: Prosodic analysis and its application to training and assessment of non-native speakers
Room: 7102
6:30-8:pm
11 November, Friday, Natural Language Processing
Smaranda Muresan (Rutgers)
Title: Learning for Deep Language Understanding
Room: 4102
Time: 2:15pm-3:30pm
15 November, Tuesday, Syntax Supper
Juan Romeu Fernandez (UMadrid)
Title: A fine-grained structure for spatial elements
Room: 7102
6:30-8:pm
Canceled: 29 November, Tuesday, Psycholinguistics Supper
Julien Musolino (Rutgers University)
Title: Genes, language, and the nature of explanations: The case of Williams Syndrome
Room: 7102
6:30-8:00 pm
Canceled: 6 December, Tuesday, Syntax Supper
Ananda Lima (UCLA)
Room: 7102
6:30-8:pm
1 December, Thursday, Colloquium
Robert Vago (CUNY - Queens College / Graduate Center)
Title: In Support of Stratal Optimality Theory: The x-Tier Phonology of Hungarian
Room: 9207
4:15pm-6pm
2 December, Friday, Sociolinguistics Lunch
Danny Erker (NYU)
Title: Of categories and continua: discrete and gradient properties of sociophonetic variation
Room: 7395
2pm-4pm
2 December, Friday, Natural Language Processing
Yejin Choi (Stony Brook)
Title: In Search of Styles in Language: Identifying Deceptive Product Reviews, Wikipedia Vandalism, and the Gender of Authors via Statistical Stylometric Analysis
Room: 4102
Time: 2:15pm-3:30pm
13 December, Tuesday, Psycholinguistics Supper
Ji Shim (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: Word order variation in code-switching
Room: 7102
6:30-8:pm