In the colloquium series of The Language and Speech unit speakers from companies and academic institutions are invited to present their work. Each month two speakers talk about a subject that is related to the field of language and speech technology. The colloquium takes place from 10:45 to 12:15 on the campus of the University of Nijmegen. All people interested are kindly invited! For further information on the colloquia please contact one of the members of the colloquium committee:
Daphne Theijssen
Eric Sanders
Nelleke Oostdijk
Maarten Versteegh
We are currently working on the colloquium series of 2010. Please check this page regularly for updates on speakers and topics.
| 1st Speaker (10:45h) | 2nd Speaker (11:30h) | |
| February 23: Building: Erasmus Room: 20.12 NB: on Tuesday! | Language Technology in Education |
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| Paola Monachesi (UU) Language Technology and Social Media in eLearning |
Rintse van der Werf & Roland Groen (Edia)
Language Technology in Adaptive Learning Systems |
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| March 3rd: Building: Erasmus Room: 2.18 | Language Evolution | |
| Jelle Zuidema (UvA - ILLC) Biological prerequisites for grammar (or whether recursion is monkey business) |
Bart de Boer (UvA - ACLC) Air sacs and the evolution of speech |
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| April 7th: Building: Erasmus Room: 1.18 | Multimedia Retrieval | |
| Roeland Ordelman (UTwente/Beeld & Geluid)
Audiovisual content exploitation: from technology-push to technology-pull |
Wessel Kraaij (RU/TNO) TRECVID: Benchmarking content based video retrieval technology |
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| May 12th: Building: Erasmus Room: 2.51 | Customer Interaction | |
| Mandy Schiffrin (Q-Go) Making sense of nonsense |
Jakub Zavrel (Textkernel) Eliminating Barriers in Recruitment by Document Understanding |
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| June 2nd: Building: Erasmus Room: 2.62 | Language technology: Bridging the gap between open source and research | |
| Simon Brouwer (OpenTaal) Language should be free |
Antal van de Bosch (Tilburg University) Echoes of Lost Memories: Progress versus Preservation in NLP Research Software |
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