26 January 2017 Groningen, The Netherlands

Computational Semantics Day

Front cover of the thesis

12:45–13:45 Aula, Academy Building, Broerstraat 5

Public Defense of Kilian Evang’s Dissertation
“Cross-lingual Semantic Parsing with Categorial Grammars”

Promotor: Prof. Dr. Johan Bos

Examining committee: Dr. Dan Flickinger, Prof. Dr. Jack Hoeksema, Prof. Dr. Michael Moortgat, Dr. Barbara Plank, Prof. Dr. Jörg Tiedemann

Please be on time, doors close at 12:45 sharp!

13:45–15:00 Spiegelzaal, Academy Building, Broerstraat 5

Reception

Snacks and drinks will be provided.

15:30–18:00 Room 1315.0036, Harmony Building, Oude Kijk in’t Jatstraat 26

Mini-workshop

(schedule subject to modifications)

15:30–15:45

Opening

15:45–16:13

Johan Bos, University of Groningen: The Parallel Meaning Bank

16:15–16:43

Dan Flickinger, Stanford University: Robust Parsing with a Deep Grammar

16:43–17:00

Break

17:00–17:28

Jörg Tiedemann, University of Helsinki: Learning from Multilingual Data—Using Translations as Semantic Supervision

17:30–17:58

Michael Moortgat, Utrecht University: A Composition Calculus for Vector-based Semantic Modelling, with a Localization for Dutch

18:30–21:00 by invitation

Dinner

Doors open at 18:30, dinner starts around 19:00.

The next day

30 Years Alfa-Informatica in Groningen

Don’t miss it! See http://www.let.rug.nl/30years/.

Please contact Kilian Evang for any inquiries.