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CILR Monday Mailing: talks in language and linguistics

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The Monday Mailing is a weekly email listing details of events over the next month which are relevant to those interested in language and linguistics. It aims to co-ordinate the dissemination of information about the various events relating to language research taking place throughout the University.

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If you have a question about this list, please contact: George Walkden. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser.

18 upcoming talks and 2303 talks in the archive: show all (slow!).

NLIP Seminar Series

Understanding Comparative Questions and Retrieving Argumentative Answers

UserAlexander Bondarenko, University of Leipzig .

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 08 March 2024, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

POSTPONED

POSTPONED. Sorry for inconvenience.

UserProf. Tom Chittenden (BioAI Health & QMUL).

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

ClockTuesday 05 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Scaling Multilingual Generation for Low-Resource Languages

UserPriyanka Agrawal, Google Deepmind.

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 16 February 2024, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Faster Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding with Confidence-based Pruning

UserJulius Cheng (University of Cambridge).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 19 January 2024, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Fairness Evaluation in Generative NLP

UserSeraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant (Cohere).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 01 December 2023, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Efficiency by Construction

UserFermin Moscoso del Prado Martin (University of Cambridge).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 24 November 2023, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Deep screening of RNA, XNA and protein interactions

https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/83721191406?pwd=V0xkY0Vvb3czWUJkR0xIZC9qMnM0QT09

UserPhilipp Holliger (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology).

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

ClockTuesday 21 November 2023, 17:00-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

RetroBridge: Modeling Retrosynthesis with Markov Bridges

This talk is online only: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92041617729

UserArne Schneuing & Ilia Igashov (EPFL).

HouseZoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92041617729.

ClockTuesday 14 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Numerical Reasoning in Natural Language Processing

UserNafise Moosavi (University of Sheffield).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 10 November 2023, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Neural mechanisms of domain-general inhibitory control

UserJan Wessel (U. of Iowa) (Joint Chaucer-Zangwill talk) .

HouseMRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 09 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Natural Language Processing for Text-to-Speech Synthesis

UserGleb Mazovetskiy (Google).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 27 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

Foundation AI

Revolutionizing Biosensing Technologies: Plug and Play Devices in Medical and Agricultural Diagnostics

UserMuhammad J. A. Shiddiky, Rural Health Research Institute (RHRI), Charles Sturt University, Orange NSW 2800.

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

ClockTuesday 24 October 2023, 17:00-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

AbDiffuser: Full-Atom Generation of In Vitro Functioning Antibodies

Notice that this talk is online only: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92041617729 Pietro Lio and Chaitanya Joshi will introduce the speakers

UserKarolis Martinkus & Andreas Loukas (Prescient Design, Genentech, Roche).

HouseZoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92041617729.

ClockTuesday 24 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Fighting Bad Information with AI

UserDavid Corney (Full Fact).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 13 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Does Syntax Still Matter in the World of LLMs?

UserMiloš Stanojević (DeepMind).

HouseComputer Laboratory, room SS03.

ClockFriday 06 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Protein generation and fitness optimization

https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94094286505?pwd=T2V3MFVSQ1ZKTFFyYlFueHlzTE83Zz09

UserJason Yim, EECS, MIT.

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building and Zoom.

ClockTuesday 20 June 2023, 17:00-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Interpretable Neural-Symbolic Concept Reasoning

Note this is on zoom only! Note a change of date! Note a new zoom link!

UserPietro Barbiero (University of Cambridge).

Housezoom only!.

ClockTuesday 20 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Knowledge Issues and Language Models

UserJames Thorne (KAIST).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 16 June 2023, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Investigating Reasons for Disagreement in Natural Language Inference

UserMarie-Catherine de Marneffe (FNRS – UCLouvain – The Ohio State University).

HouseComputer Lab, FW26.

ClockFriday 09 June 2023, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Untangling genome assembly graphs with graph neural networks

https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93934749405?pwd=M0ZERUZleklON01vZlpXbzhqTld0Zz09. ; ID riunione: 939 3474 9405 Passcode: 374750

UserLovro Vrcek, Genome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR.

HouseSeminar Room FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

ClockWednesday 07 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Information Spreading on Networks

NOTE A CHANGE OF ROOM DUE TO EXAMS. NOW SS03

UserCharlotte Out.

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockTuesday 06 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Fighting Misinformation in Science Communication with NLP

UserDustin Wright (University of Copenhagen).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 02 June 2023, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Interpretable Multi-hop Question Answering

UserZhenyun Deng (University of Cambridge).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 26 May 2023, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Reality Check: NLP in the era of Large Language Models

UserVered Shwartz (University of British Columbia).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 12 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Improving Model Robustness for Natural Language Inference

UserJoe Stacey (Imperial College London).

HouseComputer Lab, FW26.

ClockFriday 28 April 2023, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Modular and Compositional Transfer Learning

UserJonas Pfeiffer (Google Research).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 24 February 2023, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Narrative Summarization from Multiple Views

UserPinelopi Papalampidi (DeepMind).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 17 February 2023, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Relative representations enable zero-shot latent space communication

Organized by Donato Crisostomi and Pietro Barbiero

UserLuca Moschella, Sapienza University of Rome.

HouseLecture Theatre 2.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2023, 14:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Processing Multiword Expressions for Grammatical Error Correction

UserShiva Taslimipoor (University of Cambridge).

HouseComputer Laboratory, Room FW09.

ClockFriday 03 February 2023, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

GenBench -- State-of-the-art generalisation research in NLP

UserDieuwke Hupkes (Facebook AI Research, ELLIS).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 27 January 2023, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Rethinking the role of tokenization in the NLP pipeline

UserKris Cao (DeepMind).

HouseComputer Lab, FW26.

ClockFriday 02 December 2022, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

A Distance Function based Cascaded Neural Network for accurate Polyps Segmentation and Classification

https://zoom.us/j/99166955895?pwd=SzI0M3pMVEkvNmw3Q0dqNDVRalZvdz09

User Yuanhong Jiang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

HouseLecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 01 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Approximate Equivariance SO(3) Needlet Convolution

https://zoom.us/j/99166955895?pwd=SzI0M3pMVEkvNmw3Q0dqNDVRalZvdz09

UserKai Yi, University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney.

HouseLecture Theatre 2.

ClockWednesday 30 November 2022, 17:00-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Global Explainability of GNNs via Logic Combination of Learned Concepts

https://zoom.us/j/99166955895?pwd=SzI0M3pMVEkvNmw3Q0dqNDVRalZvdz09

UserSteve Azzolin.

HouseOnline (Zoom).

ClockFriday 25 November 2022, 17:00-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

The Interpretability of Graph Neural Networks

Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/99166955895?pwd=SzI0M3pMVEkvNmw3Q0dqNDVRalZvdz09

UserHan Xuanyuan, Dept of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW11 + zoom.

ClockFriday 25 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

CANCELLED

UserDieuwke Hupkes (Facebook AI Research, ELLIS).

HouseComputer Lab, TBD.

ClockFriday 25 November 2022, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Learning Feynman Diagrams using Graph Neural Networks

https://zoom.us/j/99166955895?pwd=SzI0M3pMVEkvNmw3Q0dqNDVRalZvdz09

UserHarrison Mitchell, dept of Physics Cambridge.

Houselecture theatre 2 dept of computer science and zoom.

ClockThursday 24 November 2022, 17:00-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Learning Multi-Scene Absolute Pose Regression with Transformers

UserYoli Shavit, Huawei TRC and Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 22 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Towards Trustworthy Natural Language Processing

UserJasmijn Bastings (Google Brain).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 18 November 2022, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Decoding is deciding under uncertainty — the case of NMT

UserBryan Eikema (University of Amsterdam).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 11 November 2022, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

NLP for Science: Advances and Challenges

UserTom Hope (Allen Institute for AI, Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

HouseComputer Lab, FW11.

ClockMonday 07 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Efficient Structured Prediction on Long Texts

UserMrinmaya Sachan (ETH Zurich).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 28 October 2022, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

ACMP: Allen-Cahn Message Passing with Attractive and Repulsive Forces for Graph Neural Networks

https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99166955895?pwd=SzI0M3pMVEkvNmw3Q0dqNDVRalZvdz09

UserYu Guang Wang.

HouseLecture Theatre 2.

ClockTuesday 25 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

A study of recent techniques to estimate the difficulty of exam questions from text

UserLuca Benedetto (University of Cambridge).

HouseFW09.

ClockFriday 21 October 2022, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

The Aston Forensic Linguistic Databank (FoLD)

UserMartyn Petyko and Daniela Schneevogt (Aston University).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 07 October 2022, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Tidying up working memory

UserJarrod Lewis-Peacock (University of Texas at Austin).

HouseMRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 06 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Cancelled! Sorry for inconvenience.

UserDanielle Belgrave, DeepMind.

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 04 October 2022, 13:15-14:15

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Learning Backward Compatible Embeddings

hybrid event (https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92564083880?pwd=Wk5DVWpUc2lIN0krMFU5azEwUGpEUT09)

UserWeihua Hu, Stanford University and Google.

HouseLecture Theatre 2 (https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92564083880?pwd=Wk5DVWpUc2lIN0krMFU5azEwUGpEUT09).

ClockFriday 02 September 2022, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Pitfalls with ablation in neural network architectures

UserChristina Lioma (University of Copenhagen).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 17 June 2022, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Neural Sequence Models for Mathematical Reasoning

RESCHEDULED, NOTE THE UNUSUAL TIME

UserYuhuai(Tony) Wu, Stanford University & Google.

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 14 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

(Modeling) Morality? On Machine Learning and Phrenology

UserZeerak Talat (Digital Democracies Institute, Simon Fraser University).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockMonday 13 June 2022, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

An aperitivo of efforts against harming online contents: propaganda, hate speech, spam

UserAlberto Barrón-Cedeño (University of Bologna).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 10 June 2022, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Measuring Causal Effects of Data Statistics on Language Model Predictions

UserYanai Elazar (Bar-Ilan University).

HouseComputer Lab, FW26.

ClockWednesday 01 June 2022, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Ceylon Portuguese: Survival Against All Odds

UserProfessor Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya (Visiting Fellow, Lucy Cavendish College and Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies School of Advanced Study, University of London).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 19 May 2022, 17:00-17:50

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Lifted Relational Neural Networks

UserGustav Šir, Czech Technical University in Prague.

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 17 May 2022, 13:15-14:15

NLIP Seminar Series

Neuro-Symbolic Deep Natural Language Understanding

UserLili Mou (University of Alberta).

HouseComputer Lab, FW26.

ClockTuesday 17 May 2022, 12:00-13:00

Second Language Education Group

Participative multilingual identity education: Theory, evidence and impact of the ‘We Are Multilingual’ Campaign

UserMEITS WAM Project Team, University of Cambridge, Linda Fisher, Michael Evans, Karen Forbes, Angela Gayton (Glasgow), Yongcan Liu, Dee Rutgers (Sheffield Hallam).

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUqd-mtqT0rE9Bsoi8plgq-jMoq1ExWFPv4.

ClockMonday 16 May 2022, 16:00-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Diagnosing AI Explanation Methods with Folk Concepts of Behavior

UserAlon Jacovi (Bar-Ilan University).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 06 May 2022, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

On the Two-fold Role of Logic Constraints in Deep Learning

https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99805544705?pwd=cXR6MTlaeXd6VmEreVdQSmFRblBtUT09

UserDr Gabriele Ciravegna, Inria – Université Côte d'Azur.

HouseZoom + presence (lecture theatre 2) .

ClockFriday 29 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

[Postponed to ET] 'Lying, bullshit and Desinformatsiya'

To register for the talk, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvduuuqTkpHN2xDSsRYUvE0ePfHgq0xzc7. You will immediately be provided with a link to the talk upon registering. Please do not share these links with third parties.

UserChristopher Heffer (Cardiff University).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 24 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Multilingual Autoregressive Entity Linking

UserNicola De Cao (University of Amsterdam, Huggingface).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 18 March 2022, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Machine learning as an assay for high-dimensional biology

UserSara Mostafavi, University of Washington, USA.

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 15 March 2022, 13:15-14:15

NLIP Seminar Series

Hugging Face: a hub for the whole ML community to collaborate

UserNate Raw and Ömer Faruk Özdemir (HuggingFace).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 11 March 2022, 12:00-14:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

'When can you passivize causatives? A phase-based analysis'

To register for the talk, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYud-murjwjEt3yZ3AXJkcFOOK85zwVBmB3. You will immediately be provided with a link to the talk upon registering. Please do not share these links with third parties.

UserMichelle Sheehan (Newcastle University).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 10 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Using NLP and graph theory to capture speech abnormalities in psychosis

UserCaroline Nettekoven (University of Cambridge).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 04 March 2022, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning from Past: Bringing Planning Back to Neural Generators

UserShashi Narayan (Google Research).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 25 February 2022, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Living in Kriolu, Learning in Portuguese: language ideologies and language education in Cape Verde

To register for this talk, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJElceCqqj8rHNCNkScsQHH_2tNV69WzD3ga

UserDr Nicola Bermingham, University of Liverpool.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 24 February 2022, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

[POSTPONED] Parametric vs Nonparametric Knowledge, and what we can learn from Knowledge Bases

UserSebastian Riedel (Facebook AI Research and UCL).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 18 February 2022, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

V2, V3, and the left periphery of Finnish and Estonian

To register for this talk, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0kcu2rrTMvE9FQR6ffKaOVTIUt5w4zGx8V. You will receive a link immediately after signing up.

UserAnders Holmberg (Newcastle University), Heete Sahkai (Institute of the Estonian Language), and Anne Tamm (Károli Gáspár University).

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 16 February 2022, 16:30-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Brain charts for the human lifespan

UserRichard Bethlehem, Autism Research Centre & Brain Mapping Unit, University of Cambridge.

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 01 February 2022, 13:15-14:15

NLIP Seminar Series

Towards Out-of-distribution generalization in NLP

UserProf. He He (New York Univeristy).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 28 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Advancing mathematics by guiding human intuition with AI

UserAlex Davies and Petar Velickovic (DeepMind).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 25 January 2022, 13:15-14:15

NLIP Seminar Series

Expectations vs. Reality: Lessons learned from Working on Toxic Content Detection in NLP

UserNedjma Ousidhoum (University of Cambridge).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 21 January 2022, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

CANCELLED

UserLotty Brand (University of Sheffield) .

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 03 December 2021, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Sparse Latent Structure with Overlapping Constraints

UserVlad Niculae (University of Amsterdam).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 26 November 2021, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Learning on Graphs with Missing Node Features

UserEmanuele Rossi, Twitter & Imperial College.

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 23 November 2021, 13:15-14:15

NLIP Seminar Series

Analyzing and Summarizing Movies using Turning Points

UserFrank Keller (University of Edinburgh).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 19 November 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The Role of Root Semantics in Determining Argument Alternations

To register for this talk, please use this link: https://forms.gle/E5rAVyaoMM4BbxKJ6

UserDr. John Beavers (University of Texas).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 18 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Revitalising Jèrriais: The Norman Language of Jersey

Please register for this webinar at: https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/centres/celc/conference-series

UserL'Office du Jèrriais.

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 16 November 2021, 17:00-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Weisfeiler and Lehman Go Cellular: CW Networks

UserCristian Bodnar (University of Cambridge) and Fabrizio Frasca (Imperial College, Twitter).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 16 November 2021, 13:15-14:15

NLIP Seminar Series

How language understanding unfolds in minds and machines

UserRoger Levy (MIT).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 12 November 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Ideophone patterns across Kiranti languages (Eastern Nepal),

Please register for this talk at https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/centres/celc/conference-series

UserDr Aimée Lahaussois (Université Paris 7).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 09 November 2021, 16:30-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Integrating Human Cognition with Natural Language Processing

UserYevgeni Berzak (Technion).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 05 November 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Phonotactics and rules interacting in change: understanding Mid-Scots θ-Debuccalisation and Late Middle English Syncope

To register for this link, please follow this link: https://forms.gle/5GCRb7HT8RUjJbvQA

UserPatrick Honeybone (University of Edinburgh).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 04 November 2021, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Toward Broad and Deep Language Understanding for Intelligent Systems

UserMarjorie McShane (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 22 October 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Empirical Results on Morphological Convergence in English

UserDr. Péter Rácz (Central European University, Budapest University of Technology, University of Canterbury)..

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 21 October 2021, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Exploring Feedback Comment Generation for Language Learners

UserRyo Nagata (Konan University).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 15 October 2021, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Unlocking Deep Learning for Graphs

UserDominique Beaini, Valence Discovery, MILA, Canada.

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 15 June 2021, 13:15-14:15

NLIP Seminar Series

Challenges in evaluating natural language generation systems

Note unusual time

UserMohit Iyyer (University of Massachusetts Amherst).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 11 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

How (not) to do (areal) phonological typology

Please register by noon on the day of the talk https://forms.gle/vCtCxURPtUbranv57

UserPavel Iosad (University of Edinburgh).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 10 June 2021, 17:30-19:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Beyond Facts: The Problem of Framing in Assessing What is True

Note unusual time

UserPhilip Resnik (University of Maryland).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 04 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Interpretability in NLP: Moving Beyond Vision

Note unusual time

UserShuoyang Ding (Johns Hopkins University).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 28 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Typological Feature Prediction and Blinding for Cross-Lingual NLP

UserJohannes Bjerva (Aalborg University).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 21 May 2021, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Incorporating Structure into NLP Models with Graph Neural Networks

User Michael Schlichtkrull (University of Cambridge).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 14 May 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Ecological links between L2 learning and L1 change

Please register by noon on the day of the talk https://forms.gle/XdoC5YnNfbS5USeb7

UserAntonella Sorace (University of Edinburgh).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 13 May 2021, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Adaptation and Control in Enterprise Language Technology

UserRyan McDonald (ASAPP).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 07 May 2021, 12:00-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Cross domain similarities and intra-person changes

UserMaria Liakata (University of Warwick).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 30 April 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Language contact in syntax: The view from Romanian

Please register by noon on the day of the talk https://forms.gle/k4VN9jrfoq9z2FC9A

UserAdnana Boioc Apintei, Adina Dragomirescu, Alexandru Nicolae (Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti Institute of Linguistics & University of Bucharest).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 29 April 2021, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title TBD

UserRyan McDonald (Google).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 19 March 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Internal arguments disguised as external arguments: Lessons from an active alignment system

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/ofRcLr4aBxyZh7yP6

UserDr Matthew Tyler (University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 11 March 2021, 16:45-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Representation Learning for Text Retrieval: Learning and Pretraining Strategies for Dense Retrieval

Unusual date and time

UserChenyan Xiong (Microsoft Research).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockThursday 11 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title TBD

Note unusual time

UserChenyan Xiong (Microsoft Research AI).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockThursday 11 March 2021, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

[RESCHEDULED] Typological Feature Prediction and Blinding for Cross-Lingual NLP

RESCHEDULED TBD

UserJohannes Bjerva (Aalborg University).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 05 March 2021, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Papers with Code and the automatic extraction of results from papers

UserRobert Stojnic (Facebook / Papers with Code).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 26 February 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The role of language professionals in minority language revitalisation: Variation in rhotic production

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/bcgdZgxu4PbNjAqn6

UserDr Claire Nance (Lancaster University).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 25 February 2021, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title TBD

UserMariam Redi (Wikimedia).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 19 February 2021, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

The Science of Knowledge Equity - Research at Wikimedia

UserMiriam Redi, Diego Saez (Wikimedia Foundation).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 19 February 2021, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Neural ODE Processes

UserCris Bodnar, Alex Norcliffe, Ben Day, Jacob Moss .

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 16 February 2021, 13:15-14:15

NLIP Seminar Series

Detecting the "Fake News" Before It Was Even Written, Media Literacy, and Flattening the Curve of the COVID-19 Infodemic

UserPreslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), HBKU).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 12 February 2021, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

A Graph-Based Framework for Structured Prediction Tasks in Sanskrit

Note unusual time

UserAmrith Krishna (University of Cambridge).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 05 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Learning under model misspecification

UserAndrés R. Masegosa, Universidad de Almería (Spain).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 02 February 2021, 13:15-14:15

Second Language Education Group

Raising multilingual autistic children: Challenges and opportunities

UserDr. Jenny Gibson and Dr. Napoleon Katsos, University of Cambridge.

HouseOn-line.

ClockMonday 01 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning with Graphs in Natural Language Generation and Relation Extraction

UserZhijiang Guo (University of Cambridge).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 29 January 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Heritage grammars and linguistic complexity: A view from grammatical gender

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/hhmex2pjepqHeZpr6

UserProfessor Terje Lohndal (NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 28 January 2021, 16:30-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Latent Action Space for Offline Reinforcement Learning

UserWenxuan Zhou, Carnegie Mellon University (USA).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 26 January 2021, 13:15-14:15

NLIP Seminar Series

Revisiting and re-evaluating rumour stance classification

UserCarolina Scarton (University of Sheffield).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 22 January 2021, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Compositional Neural Meaning Representation Parsing

UserWeiwei Sun (University of Cambridge).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 04 December 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Focus Association with ONLY

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/By3XNQtaYLUksF1S9

UserDr Ksenia Zanon (Slavonic Section MMLL, University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 03 December 2020, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Working Memory 2.0

UserEarl Miller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

HouseZoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

ClockThursday 03 December 2020, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Improving Speech Translation with Linguistically-Informed Representations

UserElizabeth Salesky (Johns Hopkins University).

HouseZoom.

ClockFriday 27 November 2020, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

The interpersonal function of emotional expressions

UserJulie Grezes (Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitive & Computationnelles).

HouseZoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

ClockThursday 26 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Graph Neural Networks for Biomedical Data

Note the change of date and time. This seminar is part of the Wednesday seminar series too.

UserMarinka Zitnik, Harvard University.

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 25 November 2020, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Bilingual Brains

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/bTVzfMTKSVwyaJRHA

UserProfessor Brendan Weekes (University of Hong Kong, HKU).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 19 November 2020, 16:30-18:00

Second Language Education Group

English Medium Education (EME) in Basic and Higher Education: Lessons learned from across the globe

UserMark Levy, John Simpson, Ann Veitch (British Council).

HouseOn-line.

ClockMonday 16 November 2020, 16:00-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Predicting Text Readability and Reading Comprehension from Reading Interactions

UserSian Gooding (University of Cambridge).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 13 November 2020, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

How far have we come in giving our NLU systems common sense?

Note time change

UserNasrin Mostafazadeh (Verneek).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 06 November 2020, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Five Sources of Biases and Ethical Issues in NLP, and What to Do about Them

UserDirk Hovy (Bocconi University).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 23 October 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Revisiting contact-induced change in creole languages

Please pre-register for this talk by noon on Oct 22nd https://forms.gle/4QF4qiepxGDVEWky6

UserDr Oliver Mayeux (University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 22 October 2020, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

What are the Goals of Distributional Semantics?

UserGuy Emerson (University of Cambridge).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 16 October 2020, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Flexible redistribution in the language network

UserDr. Gesa Hartwigsen (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences).

HouseZoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

ClockThursday 15 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Polysemy: Pragmatics and Linguistic Conventions

Please pre-register for this event by noon on Thursday October 8th : https://forms.gle/QsDW2EdTzjNC2d6i7

UserProfessor Robyn Carston, UCL.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 08 October 2020, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Towards explainable fact checking

UserIsabelle Augenstein (University of Copenhagen).

Househttps://meet.google.com/xkv-cako-arr.

ClockFriday 19 June 2020, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Achieving Verified Robustness to Adversarial NLP Inputs

Note later start

UserJohannes Welbl (UCL).

Househttps://meet.google.com/tgv-vods-pdk.

ClockFriday 12 June 2020, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

[Online talk] - Peircean Semiotics, Archaeology, and the Origin of Human Language: Was Homo erectus the first talking human?

Please SIGN UP for the event (deadline Thursday, 11th of June, 12pm BST): https://cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cJeqCnIOH9BcVTv -- You will receive an attendance link on Thursday before the talk.

UserProf Daniel Everett (Bentley University).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 11 June 2020, 15:00-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Methodological advances in creating time sensitive sensors from language and heterogeneous user generated content

Rescheduled

UserMaria Liakata (Queen Mary University of London, University of Warwick, Alan Turing Institute).

Househttps://meet.google.com/awc-wvbh-azc.

ClockFriday 29 May 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - TBC

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

UserProf Brendan Weekes (University of Hong Kong).

HouseTBC.

ClockThursday 28 May 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

[Online talk] - The Syntax of Verbs: Language Typology, Language Change and a little bit of Language Acquisition

Please SIGN UP for the event following the link: https://cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_25lZ6rde33jG62h -- You will receive an attendance link on Thursday before the talk.

UserProf Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 28 May 2020, 16:30-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Graph Representation Learning under Uncertainty (WIP)

UserCatalina Cangea and Ben Day (University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline on Teams.

ClockTuesday 26 May 2020, 13:15-14:15

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

[Online talk] - Linguists who use probabilistic models love them: An introduction to Functional Distributional Semantics

Please sign up via the link in order to receive an attendance link on Thursday before the talk: https://cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_50YGCrYnFdptyU5

UserDr Guy Emerson (Dept. of Computer Sciences and Technology, University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 07 May 2020, 17:00-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Reducing gender bias in neural machine translation as a domain adaptation problem

Online Seminar

UserDanielle Saunders (University of Cambridge).

Househttps://meet.google.com/hhk-hmiz-mpt.

ClockFriday 01 May 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - Title: How Language Began: A Peircean Approach to Language Evolution

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

UserProf Daniel Everett (Bentley University).

HouseEnglish Faculty Building, second floor, SR24.

ClockThursday 02 April 2020, 16:30-18:00

Indo-European Seminar

Left dislocation

tea served from 4.15

UserHilla Halla-aho (Helsinki).

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2020, 16:30-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Evaluating Deep Generative Models on Out-of-Distribution Inputs

UserEric Nalisnick (University of Cambridge).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 06 March 2020, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning Tensors and Random Matrix Theory

UserMehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (UCL).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 28 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Indo-European Seminar

Causatives in Sanskrit

tea served from 4.15

UserAntonia Ruppel (Oxford).

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 19 February 2020, 16:30-17:30

Second Language Education Group

The Role of Metalinguistic Awareness in Multilingual Learning and Teaching

Refreshments available from 4.30pm

UserProfessor Ulrike Jessner-Schmid, University of Innsbruck.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

ClockMonday 17 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Indo-European Seminar

The rise of vowel writing and the transmission of writing within and beyond Afroasiatic

tea served from 4.15

UserDaniel Harbour (Queen Mary) .

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 12 February 2020, 16:30-17:30

Second Language Education Group

Linguistic Justice in Policy and Practice

ALL WELCOME, Drinks reception from 6.30pm

UserEmeritus Professor Robert Phillipson, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark..

HouseDonald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room 1S3.

ClockTuesday 11 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Zero-shot Language Learning through Bayesian Neural Models

UserEdoardo Maria Ponti (University of Cambridge).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 07 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Second Language Education Group

Micro-level Language Policy and Planning: Levels, Agency and Structure (Cambridge Masterclass in Multilingualism, Education and Language Policy 2019-2020)

Open to staff and students of Cambridge University. Booking is required and please contact Yongcan Liu ( yl258@cam.ac.uk)

UserProfessor Anthony J. Liddicoat, University of Warwick.

House Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room GS5.

ClockThursday 30 January 2020, 14:00-16:00

Indo-European Seminar

'What would Catullus do? Epigraphic evidence for manuscript spelling

tea served from 4.15

UserNicholas Zair, Cambridge.

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 29 January 2020, 16:30-17:30

Second Language Education Group

Developing a Text Editor to Help Writers with Academic English Collocations

Refreshments available from 4.30pm

UserDr. Ana Frankenberg-Garcia, Centre of Translation Studies, University of Surrey.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

ClockMonday 27 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Can we optimise fashion ecommerce using NLG?

Note: earlier time of 11am

UserRory Waite (Emotif.ai).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 17 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Long Form Question Answering

UserAngela Fan (Facebook).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 06 December 2019, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Unsupervised cross-lingual representation learning

Room Change: LT1

UserSebastian Ruder (DeepMind).

HouseLT1, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 22 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Chemistry of the adaptive mind: on dopamine and mental work

UserRoshan Cools (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 21 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

CANCELLED Probabilistic models of graphs for meaning representations

Extra talk: note unusual day and time

UserAdam Lopez (University of Edinburgh).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockTuesday 19 November 2019, 10:00-11:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Ethical considerations for responsible design

Room Change: LT1

UserShauna Concannon (University of Cambridge).

HouseLT1, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 15 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Sociolinguistic Vulnerability: Disaster Linguicism and Crisis Translation

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

UserProf. Federico Federici (University College London).

HouseGR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 14 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Making circles out of lines: A view of the evolving relationship between academia and language communities

UserEbany Dohle (SOAS, University of London) & Maria-Olimpia Squillaci (University of Naples "L'Orientale").

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Automatic Analysis of Affect and Personality Analysis in Multiperson Settings

UserHatice Gunes (University of Cambridge).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 25 October 2019, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Multimodal natural language processing: when text is not enough

UserLucia Specia (Imperial College London).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 18 October 2019, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

The perceptual prediction paradox

UserClare Press (U. of London, Dept of Psychology Sciences).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 17 October 2019, 15:30-17:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

A human-oriented term rewriting system

UserEd Ayers (University of Cambridge).

HouseFC22.

ClockMonday 23 September 2019, 13:00-14:00

Second Language Education Group

Promoting multilingual literacy and reader identity:Global Storybooks and open technology

UserBonny Norton , FRSC, Professor and University Scholar , Department of Language & Literacy Education, UBC, Canada.

HouseMurray Edwards College, Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 13 September 2019, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Natural Language Generation in the Wild

UserDaniel Beck, University of Melbourne.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 05 July 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Bilingualism in the community: Code-switching and grammars in contact

There will be a tea reception from 4:30pm.

UserCatherine Travis (The Australian National University).

HouseGR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

ClockWednesday 19 June 2019, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

An Operation Sequence Model for Explainable Neural Machine Translation

UserFelix Stahlberg, CUED, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 14 June 2019, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Towards secure and efficient DNNs

UserAaron Zhao, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 31 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Out in the Field with the Remaining Speakers of Neo-Aramaic in Northern Iraq

UserDr Paul Noorlander (University of Cambridge), Dorota Molin (University of Cambridge).

HouseFaculty of English, Room SR24.

ClockTuesday 28 May 2019, 17:30-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Mitigating Gender Bias in Morphologically Rich Languages

UserRyan Cotterell, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 24 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

AI Extenders: The Ethical and Societal Implications of Humans Cognitively Extended by AI

UserKarina Vold & José Hernández-Orallo, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 17 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Second Language Education Group

Paradoxes of multilingualism in public policy in conjunction with the launching of Cambridge Masterclass Series on Multilingualism, Education and Language Policy

Please book with Ann Waterman on aw244@cam.ac.uk if you would like to attend

UserProfessor Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University, Washington, USA.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

ClockTuesday 14 May 2019, 10:00-12:00

Second Language Education Group

How can usage-based SLA invigorate language education?

in conjunction of the launching Cambridge Annual Lecture on Second Language Learning and Teaching

User Professor Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University, Washington, USA .

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

ClockMonday 13 May 2019, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Factorising AMR generation through syntax

UserKris Cao, DeepMind.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 10 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Languages* in Formal Reasoning: Accessibility vs. Formality

UserZohreh Shams, AI Group, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 03 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Reinforcement learning in AI systems and in the brain

UserMatt Botvinick (DeepMind and Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 02 May 2019, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Word Sense Disambiguation and Other Systems in Japanese

UserKanako Komiya, Ibaraki University, Japan.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 26 April 2019, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Far beyond the back of the brain

UserPeter Hagoort (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour) .

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 14 March 2019, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

K.A.T.E.: Scaling personalised tech education for professionals

UserRaoul-Gabriel Urma, Kevin Lemagnen, Sahan Bulathwela, Cambridge Spark.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 08 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

TBC

There will be a tea reception from 4:30pm.

User Dr Francesca Martina Branzi (University of Cambridge).

HouseGR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 07 March 2019, 18:00-19:30

Indo-European Seminar

A Roman ‘folk model’ of courage: animus and metaphor

Tea served from 4.15

UserBill Short University of Exeter .

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2019, 16:30-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning multi-domain dialogues

UserPaweł Budzianowski, CUED, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 01 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Predictors of listening comprehension skills in bilingual children

There will be a tea reception from 4:30pm.

UserProf Ludovica Serratrice (University of Reading).

HouseGR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 28 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Indo-European Seminar

Early Latin to Neo-Latin: Festus and Scaliger

Tea served from 4.15

UserAnna Chahoud Trinity College, Dublin.

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Large-scale analyses of language variation and change in social media

UserDong Nguyen, University of Edinburgh & Alan Turing Institute.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 22 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Dilated DenseNets for Relational Reasoning

UserAgnieszka Slowik (University of Cambridge).

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockTuesday 19 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Understanding Source Code using Natural Language and Graph Neural Networks

UserMiltos Allamanis, Microsoft Research.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 15 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Second Language Education Group

The Listening Zones of NGOs: Languages and cultural knowledge in development programmes

There will be a drinks reception after the seminar

UserProfessor Hilary Footitt, University of Reading.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

ClockMonday 11 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning to navigate without a map (but with instructions)

UserPiotr Mirowski, DeepMind.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 08 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

French Linguistics Research Seminars

What can endangered creoles tell us about language change? Three centuries of Louisiana Creole

This talk is co-hosted by the Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

UserOliver Mayeux *Cambridge).

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2019, 18:30-19:30

Indo-European Seminar

Italic religious dedications: between local traditions and Graeco-Roman influences

Tea served from 4.15

UserMaria José Estaran University of Zaragoza.

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Topic-Aware Convolutional Neural Networks for Extreme Summarization

UserShashi Narayan, University of Edinburgh / Google.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 01 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Indo-European Seminar

1st Reading seminar: Harm Pinkster’s Oxford Latin Syntax

Tea served from 4.15

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

Second Language Education Group

Creativity in the languages classroom: Learners' responses to literary text

UserDr.Linda Fisher, University of Cambridge , Professor Suzanne Graham, Reading University.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

ClockMonday 28 January 2019, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

**CANCELLED** Probabilistic Typology: Deep Generative Models of Vowel Inventories

UserRyan Cotterell, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 25 January 2019, 12:00-13:00

Indo-European Seminar

Hieroglyphic Luwian masterclass

Tea served from 4.15

UserWillemijn Waal, Leiden.

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Graph Neural Networks for Knowledge Base Question Answering

Room changed

UserDaniil Sorokin, Technische Universität Darmstadt.

HouseFW11, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 30 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

A Bayesian approach to internal models

UserMate Lengyel (Dept of Engineering, U. of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 22 November 2018, 15:30-17:00

Indo-European Seminar

The decline of infinitival complementation in Ancient Greek. A reconsideration

Tea served from 4.15

UserKlaas Bentein, Ghent.

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Second Language Education Group

EMI in Francophone Cameroon: What can we learn from victims of English?

There will be a drinks reception after the seminar

UserDr. Harry Kuchah Kuchah, University of Leeds.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

ClockMonday 19 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

The Ethics of Artificially Intelligent Communications Technology

Room changed

UserMarcus Tomalin, CUED, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW11, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 16 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Timing in dyslexia: Language, reading and writing

UserProfessor Maria Teresa Guasti (University of Milano-Bicocca).

HouseGR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 15 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Timing in dyslexia: Language, reading and writing

UserProfessor Maria Teresa Guasti (University of Milano-Bicocca).

HouseGR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 15 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Knowledge Representation and Extraction at Scale

UserChristos Christodoulopoulos, Amazon.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 09 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Second Language Education Group

Pardon my French! Exploring the myths and realities of Second Language Education in Canada

UserDr Shawn Bullock, University of Cambridge, Dr Cecile Sabatier, Simon Fraser University.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

ClockMonday 05 November 2018, 17:30-19:00

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