Vered Shwartz (UBC Computer Science) will give an in-person colloquium on September 23rd 4th in the Seminar Room at TFS. Title: Incorporating Commonsense Reasoning into NLP Models Abstract: NLP models are primarily supervised, and are by design trained on a sample of the situations they may encounter in practice. The ability of models to generalize to […]
Department members will give a 3-minute flash talk about a research project they are working on. More details to follow.
Kaili Vesik & Kathleen Currie Hall will present a research seminar. More details to follow.
Darius Adjong will present a research seminar. A closer look at intensifiers, reflexive and reciprocal pronouns: evidence from Buli, English, and Akan. Intensifiers and reflexive pronouns are sometimes considered to be formally identical in many languages. Reflexive and reciprocal pronouns have also been said to be formally identical in some languages (see König, Siemund & […]
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David Gramling (UBC Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies) will give a colloquium talk. Living with Ordolanguages Description: Drawing on my past few books on monolingualism and multilingualism, I will take a detour through a Danish novel, Dorthe Nors’s 2015 Mirror, Shoulder, Signal, to explore the ways such literary texts propose theories of “the traffic in […]
Marie-Eve Bouchard (French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies) will present a research seminar. More details to follow.
The department will host Flash Talks on Friday, March 17. Presentations are 3 minutes long, followed by a single question from the audience. It will be a great opportunity to hear introductions to the work our graduate students, labs, and different research teams are involved in. The event will be hybrid. More details to follow. […]
Tom Koss (University of Antwerp), a visiting scholar in our department, will give a research seminar. (Non-) Present-time reference from a typological perspective The default function of a present-tense construction would appear to be locating situations at the time of speaking. Yet, in various languages, the so-called present tense can only be used to refer […]
Donald Derrik (University of Canterbury) will give an in-person talk at 3:30 pm on Thursday, May 18th at Totem Field Studio (Room 121). See the abstract information below. Multi-modal integration in speech: Effects and limitations In our 2009 Nature paper, Bryan Gick and I demonstrated that a puff of air on the skin can change […]