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Talks are held Tuesdays, 4:00 p.m., in room GB 3/159 (i.e. building GB, level 3, room 159). Abstracts are added a few weeks prior to the scheduled date.

Talks scheduled for the summer semester 2020 must be postponed due to local measures against the COVID-19 pandemic. Up-to-date information on the future schedule will be provided here as soon as it is available.

Winter semester 2020/2021
Date Title Speaker
Oct 13, 2020 Context-preserving text simplification Christina Niklaus
Nov 10, 2020 Referentialität, Spezifizität und Diskursprominenz: Zur Semantik und Pragmatik von indefiniten Demonstrativen im Deutschen Klaus von Heusinger
Nov 24, 2020 Towards a universal scheme for anaphora, deixis and nominal semantics Massimo Poesio
Dec 8, 2020 Projective content Judith Tonhauser
Jan 12, 2021 A cross-linguistic perspective on incremental event interpretation Oliver Bott
Jan 26, 2021 Human evaluation of Natural Language Generation: Validity, reliability and more Jacopo Amidei
Mar 16, 2021 Learning to write words Rebecca Treiman

Winter semester 2019/2020
Date Title Speaker
Oct 29, 2019 Neues vom Zitronenzylinderputzer. Produktivität in der Kompositabildung und die Interaktion von Wortbildungsmustern, lexikalischer Bedeutung und Gebrauchsfrequenzen Stefan Engelberg
Nov 12, 2019 Advances in explainable neural natural language processing Robert Schwarzenberg
Nov 26, 2019 Language is a usage-based dynamic complex-adaptive system. But how does such a system actually work? Hans-Jörg Schmid
Jan 28, 2020 Semantic patterns: Presenting a quantitative usage-based method for the description of grammatical and lexical meaning Dylan Glynn

Summer semester 2019
Date Title Speaker
Apr 23, 2019 Transition-based DRS Parsing with Stack-LSTMs Kilian Evang
May 7, 2019 Short-circuiting: How constructions constrain what ‘can’ can mean in context Bert Cappelle
May 21, 2019 On using verbs as nouns Roberto Zamparelli
Jun 4, 2019 Die besondere Natur von Experiencer-Objekt-Strukturen Anne Temme
Jun 18, 2019 A situation-sensitive approach to bare NP interpretation: Evidence from Slavic Radek Šimík

Winter semester 2018/2019
Date Title Speaker
Oct 30, 2018 Discourse analysis and annotation for contrastive linguistics and translation studies Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski
Nov 13, 2018 Experimentelle Syntax im Sprachvergleich: Parallelexperimente zu Superioritätseffekten in 7 Sprachen Jana Häussler
Nov 27, 2018 Complex probability expressions & higher-order uncertainty: Compositional semantics, probabilistic pragmatics, and experimental data Michael Franke
Jan 15, 2019 Count-mass polysemy: A pragmatic approach Ingrid Lossius Falkum

Summer semester 2018
Date Title Speaker
Apr 17, 2018 Investigations in knowledge graphs Vivi Nastase
May 15, 2018 A mention-ranking model for abstract anaphora resolution Ana Marasović
May 29, 2018 The Potsdam argumentative microtext corpus: Classification experiments and new extensions Manfred Stede
Jun 12, 2018 Deep learning methods for knowledge base population Heike Adel
Jun 26, 2018 Cognitive predictors of shallow-orthography spelling Vibeke Rønneberg
Jul 10, 2018 Donkeys without borders Lucas Champollion

Winter semester 2017/2018
Date Title Speaker
Oct 17, 2017 Sense-based clustering for the interpretation of humorous ambiguity Tristan Miller
Oct 24, 2017 Learning non-parametric vectorial representations for semantic entailment James Henderson
Nov 28, 2017 Two kinds of count nouns Hana Filip
Jan 23, 2018 Internalist semantics and the grammatical construction of individuals Paolo Acquaviva
Jan 30, 2018 Is language under control or in control? Guillaume Thierry

Summer semester 2017
Date Title Speaker
Apr 25, 2017 The many faces of plural Artemis Alexiadou
May 9, 2017 Texts come from people: Computational sociolinguistics and NLP Dirk Hovy
May 23, 2017 Analyzing learner language: Conceptual challenges and opportunities for computational linguistics Detmar Meurers
Jun 13, 2017 ‘Good’ as an evaluative intensifier Berit Gehrke
Jun 27, 2017 Mining temporal and causal relations from text Paramita Mirza
Jul 25, 2017 Projektionen im Rahmen der Online-Syntax Peter Auer

Winter semester 2016/2017
Date Title Speaker
Oct 25, 2016 Representations of language in visually grounded neural models Grzegorz Chrupala
Nov 8, 2016 What structural priming tells us about implicatures Lewis Bott
Dec 6, 2016 Distributional approaches to semantic relatedness Sabine Schulte im Walde
Jan 10, 2017 Implicit-statistical learning of words and syntax: Evidence from cross-situational learning Patrick Rebuschat
Jan 24, 2017 Detection and intervention of dyslexia Maria Rauschenberger
Feb 7, 2017 Zur Funktion und Resolution von nicht-nominalen Anaphern Heike Zinsmeister