Workshop - Grammars Everywhere: Language, music, art, perception & the legacy of Remko Scha
Workshop at the international conference ‘SMART Animals’ at the University of Amsterdam.
| Date | 7 December 2017 |
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| Time | 09:00 - 16:00 |
Workshop description
Remko Scha (1945-2015) was professor of computational linguistics at the UvA’s Institute for Logic, Language and Computation. During his career, he made significant scientific and artistic contributions to areas as diverse as question answering, discourse analysis, the semantics of plurals, Data-Oriented Parsing, aleatoric music, algorithmic art, and theories and models of visual perception and creativity. In this workshop we celebrate these contributions with talks on current developments in many of the areas he was interested in.
Speakers
Henk Zeevat (University of Amsterdam & Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf)
Livia Polanyi (Stanford University)
Yoad Winter (Utrecht University)
Mehdi Dastani (Utrecht University)
Jochem van der Spek (Borges.xyz)
Dieuwke Hupkes (University of Amsterdam)
Willem Zuidema (University of Amsterdam)
Registration
The registration of the workshop is closed.
Workshop organisers
Willem Zuidema & Dieuwke Hupkes (University of Amsterdam)
Schedule
| 09:00 - 09:15 |
Welcome with coffee & introduction (Willem Zuidema) |
| 09:15 - 10:00 |
Livia Polanyi (Stanford University) From a “simple” question to the Linguistic Discourse Model: Remko Scha's seminal contributions to understanding the structure of language above the sentence —and what came next |
| 10:00 - 10:35 |
Yoad Winter (Utrecht University) Sabar - the drum language of Senegal |
| 10:35 - 11:05 | Coffee break |
| 11:05 - 11:40 |
Mehdi Dastani (Utrecht University) Emotion in Artificial Intelligence |
| 11:40 - 12:15 |
Jochem van der Spek (Borges.xyz) Perception as constrained hallucination |
| 12:15 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 - 14:35 |
Henk Zeevat (University of Amsterdam & Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf) A Natural History of Concepts |
| 14:35 - 15:10 |
Dieuwke Hupkes (University of Amsterdam) The Grammar of Neural Networks |
| 15:10 - 15:45 |
Willem Zuidema (University of Amsterdam) Dynamics all the way down: dynamic representations in neural grammars |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | General Discussion |
Location
CREA Muziekzaal