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This is an occasional, informal Cognitive Science get together to hear who is doing what, to learn about new topics, and to strengthen/forge collegial networks.  There will be a series of short talks by participants, which will give us an opportunity to get acquainted. We will order pizza to be delivered...

Abstract: Scientific workflows play an important role in computational research, as the essential artifacts for communicating the methods used to produce the research findings. We are witnessing a growing number of efforts of treating workflows as first-class artifacts for sharing and exchanging scientific knowledge, either as part of scholarly articles or...

The University of Aberdeen is delighted to host this prestigious conference. The 13th Experimental Chaos and Complexity Conference will be a forum that brings together an international interdisciplinary group involving physicists, engineers, mathematicians, chemists, biologists, and neuroscientists focused on various aspects of experimental Chaos and Complexity. This meeting will focus...

A Mini-Workshop on Perspectives on Text Readability Speakers: Hitoshi Nishikawa (NTT Media Intelligence Laboratories, Tokyo) - Learning to Generate Coherent Summary with Discriminative Hidden Semi-Markov Model Tadashi Nomoto (National Institute of Japanese Literature, Tokyo) - Exploration in Memory Based Topic Detection (Or Concept Generation with Distributional Semantics) Itsumi Saito (NTT Media Intelligence Laboratories, Tokyo) - Morphological Analysis...

Coffee and a slice of science at Waterstones Eastgate Centre Inverness.

Get the whole family together for an afternoon of fascinating, hands-on science.

Abstract: Based at IBM's Hursley Labs in the UK, the Emerging Technology team works with clients to bridge the divide between new technology and mainstream software products. The team combines direct customer experience with innovation and first-of-a-kind technology to produce solutions that solve real business challenges. This talk will introduce the...

Learn more about inventor Nikola Tesla and enjoy a thrilling demonstration of a Tesla coil.

Abstract: Concluding the series on synchronous grammars, I describe how synchronous grammars, and in particular probabilistic versions, can be applied to a variety of natural-language processing problems such as generation, machine translation, and sentence compression. Bio: Stuart Shieber is a Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University. His primary research field is computational...

Abstract: Compositionality is the tenet that the meaning of an expression is determined by the meanings of its immediate parts along with their method of combination. The semantics of artificial languages (such as programming languages or logics) are uniformly given compositionally, so that the notion doesn’t even arise in that literature....