Seminar Archive

2015

October

• Computing Department Seminar. Hautli-Janisz on "Annotating aspects of deliberation in political negotiations"

  20 October 2015, 14:00 - 15:00

  Abstract: This talk revolves around the concept of deliberation and whether and how it can be automatically manifested in discourse. One of the key points of the talk is the operationalization of this rather abstract notion, which orignates from political science and assumes that participants in a multilog, i.e. a...

2014

August

• Computing Science Seminar. Elsner on "Visual complexity and referring expression generation"

  01 August 2014, 14:00 - 15:00

  Abstract: An observer's perception of a visual scene influences the language they use to describe it--- which objects they choose to mention and how they characterize the relationships between them. In this talk, I will discuss some experiments on the relationship between visual perception and reference. Using a corpus of descriptions...

July

• Computing Science Seminar. Caminada on "Strong Admissibility Revisited"

  16 July 2014, 14:00 - 15:00

  Abstract We re-examine the concept of strong admissibility, as was originally introduced by Baroni and Giacomin. We examine the formal properties of strong admissibility, both in its extension-based and in its labelling-based form. Moreover, we show that strong admissibility plays a vital role in discussion-based proof procedures for grounded semantics. In...

2013

October

• Joshi on "Penn Discourse Treebank and the Problem of Attribution"

  16 October 2013, 14:00 - 15:00

  A presentation about the Penn Discourse Treebank

• Caminada on "A Brief Overview of Formal Argumentation Theory"

  09 October 2013, 14:00 - 15:00

  A presentation about formal argumentation theory.

• Villazon-Terrazas on "Linked Enterprise Data - Iterative and Incremental Life Cycle"

  07 October 2013, 14:00 - 15:00

  A presentation about Linked Data.

June

• Computing Science Seminar by Ani Nenkova

  27 June 2013, 16:00 - 17:00

  Emotion Analysis for Applications in Neuropsychiatry

• Computing Science Seminar by Ani Nenkova

  26 June 2013, 16:00 - 17:00

  Identifying Elements of Text Quality Automatically

• Computing Science Seminar by Ani Nenkova

  26 June 2013, 14:00 - 15:00

  Reassessing the state of the art in multi-document news summarization and its evaluation

May

• Computing Science seminar by Gerd Groener

  15 May 2013, 14:00 - 15:00

  Validation of User Intentions in Process Models