Jeff will give a presentation this Friday (Dec 2) about definite and reverse definite languages and generalizations thereof. This will be our last MLRG meeting for this semester. Hope to see you all there!
Note: The meeting will again take place at the seminar room (SBS S-207), instead of the …
Unless otherwise stated, we will not be meeting for the next three weeks due to no presenters and the Thanksgiving break. We will meet again on Dec 2 for Magda's presentation (topic to be announced).
Scott will be talking about "Modal Logic & the phon(etics/ology) interface" this Friday. We will still be meeting this Friday at 1:00 pm as usual, but due to lab renovations, we will relocate. The meeting location is still to be announced.
Due to the lab renovations, we will not be meeting next Friday (Oct 28). Our weekly recreational meeting will resume on Nov 4 and Scott will talk about "Modal Logic & the phon(etics/ology) interface". Stay tuned!
Currently, we do not have any speakers for Nov 11 and 18, as …
There will be no meeting next Friday (Oct 21). You are encouraged to attend the talk titled " Building better speech recognition for everyone" given by alumnus Alëna Aksënova. Alëna is a linguist at Google, where she works on topics related to speech processing, automatic speech recognition, and model evaluation pipelines …
This time Thomas will present recent work of his on monotonicity in syntax. He claims that monotonicity provides a unified view on the Ban Against Improper Movement, the Williams Cycle, and freezing effects. We'll see if he can convince us.
If you have time, you can try to read the …
This Friday (Oct 7), Jordan will be discussing David Marr's levels of analysis in cognitive science, and where and how mathematical linguistics fits into our understanding of linguistic cognition and what that tells us about theoretical linguistics and psycholinguistics. Chapters from Marr (1982) and Lignos (2013) will also be discussed …
Next Friday (Sep 30), Prof. Gary Mar and his students (Michael Barr, Gino Elia, and Madhi Malek) from Department of Philosophy will pick up the thread initiated by Jeff. They will discuss about the logical limitations of FOL (First Order Logic) and MSO (Monadic Second Order) logic to be solved …
Due to the Workshop on Model Theoretic Representations in Phonology, we will not be meeting recreationally next Friday (Sep 23).
The workshop is organized by Jeff and Scott, happening from Sep 22 to 24 at IACS seminar room. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers studying phonological …
Jeff will be giving a talk titled "What constraints should phonology allow?" next Friday (Sep 16) at SBS N250 from 13:00 to 14:00. Below is an intro to this talk:
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I will informally introduce model theoretic representations, first order (FO) logic and monadic second order (MSO) logic in …This Friday (Sep 9), Kenneth will be talking about TSL syntax. Also a reminder that tomorrow Kenneth will present a related but different talk titled "A TSL Analysis of Japanese Case" in the first Brown Bag meeting from 1:00-2:30 at Linguistics Seminar Room (SBS S-207). Below you can …
We're kicking off the semester for real this time with a presentation by yours truly on the subregular complexity of linearization. There'll be dependency trees, phrase structure trees, ISL tree transductions with TSL tests, and a bit of corpus work, all leading to a novel perspective on linearization that allows …
We will have our first meeting this coming Friday, August 26, at 1:00pm in the CompLing Lab (SBS N-250). We will sketch out a schedule for the rest of the semester, so please come with a few proposals for presentations.