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The Inaugural Coffee & Cake Hour

Fall 2012 Brunch

Spring 2012 Picnic

Julie Sedivy - University of Calgary (2014)

Lisa Levinson

March 13, 2014 - Lisa Levinson (University of Oakland) will be presenting some of her current research. From her webpage: "One way to describe the focus of my research is as 'morphosemantics'. I want to better understand what the atomic units of compositional semantics are, and the extent to which those atomic units can be mapped to atomic morphosyntactic constituents. In my recent work, I've been pursuing the hypothesis that morphology is akin to syntax, in the tradition of Distributed Morphology, and exploring the predictions this makes for compositional semantics at the morphological level. To this end, I am working to integrate the study of lexical and 'subatomic' meaning into the fold of formal semantics."

#pastspeakersmaybe

Jason Baldridge - University of Texas at Austin (2013)

William Labov - University of Pennsylvania (2013)

Ed Stabler - UCLA (2013)

Working with Linguistic Data Using Python

11/29/2012 - Presented by David Lutz.

This hands-on workshop will introduce linguistics students with little or no programming background to some basic tools and methods for collecting and working with linguistic data using the Python programming language. We will:

explore the corpora, models, and other resources that are available, how to get them, and how to work with them;

perform complex searches through linguistic data, and compile some basic statistics;

learn how to work with the many different formats that linguistic data comes in;

familiarize ourselves with resources to automatically part-of-speech tag and parse corpora, and discuss their limitations

Participants are encouraged to bring a laptop, questions, and sample data to play with. A working installation of Python 3 will be needed to follow along, and participants should have it installed and running before the workshop begins. Help installing Python 3 is available for those who would like it; just contact David. Slides and files from the presentation (.tgz file)

Computational modelling as a tool for understanding minimalist syntax

02/15/2013 - Presented by Tim Hunter, Postdoc. We will introduce a concrete version of minimalist syntax, "stripped down" to its bare essentials and without some of more philosophical trimmings that can sometimes become distracting. Thanks to the explicit nature of these models, we can use computers to automatically check the predictions of our theories. This can help draw our attention to hidden assumptions or consequences that we might not otherwise have noticed in informal discussions of our ideas, and therefore help to lead us in the direction of better theories of syntax. Pre-reqs: Syntax I. (though you'll probably be fine with a basic intro to X-bar)

Your Webpage

September 19, 2013 - Zac Smith will be presenting the basics of web design and development for use in generating your personal departmental webpage. Basic HTML/CSS, content generation, and file transfer via ssh/ftp will be explored and utilized in order to help members of the department create professional and informative personal webpages.

this is a test

simply a test, people, don't bother reading this far!

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LaTeX for Linguists

September 12, 2013 - Zac Smith and Todd Snider will be presenting the what, how, and why of LaTeX. Attendees will learn about this free and powerful typesetting tool, how to install it, how to use it, and how to make the most of it, with special emphasis on using it for syntax trees, semantic proofs, OT tableaux, and more!