The 39th Language Lunch Date: 2013-10-17 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum Descriptions which have grown capital letters Brian,Rabern; PPLS; None Almost entirely ignored in the linguistic theorising on names and descriptions is a hybrid form of expression which, like definite descriptions, begin with `the’ but which, like proper names, are capitalised and seem to lack descriptiveContinue reading The 39th Language Lunch

The 37th Language Lunch Date: 2013-05-09 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum Where are the Challenges in Speaker Diarization? Mark,Sinclair; Informatics; M.Sinclair-7@sms.ed.ac.uk Speaker Diarization involves segmenting audio into speaker homogenous regions and labelling regions from each individual speaker with a single label. Knowing both who spoke and when has many useful applications and can form part ofContinue reading The 37th Language Lunch

The 36th Language Lunch Date: 2013-02-08 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum Primates and Patterns in the Evolution of Language and Music Andrea,Ravignani; andrea.ravignani@univie.ac.at The study of the origins of language and music is an exciting interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research area. By presenting some of my ongoing research on apes and monkeys, I will suggest how theContinue reading The 36th Language Lunch

The 35th Language Lunch Date: 2012-11-29 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum PLANNING FOR OTHERS – Predictions about Your Upcoming Utterance Affect the Timing of My Utterance Chiara,Gambi; PPLS; c.gambi@sms.ed.ac.uk PREDICTING SPEECH PRODUCTION – Facilitation but no Inhibition Eleanor,Drake; PPLS; e.k.e.drake@sms.ed.ac.uk Although picture-naming studies have contributed significantly to understandings of speech production,rnparticularly of item-specific effects such asContinue reading The 35th Language Lunch

The 34th Language Lunch Date: 2012-10-05 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum If a lion could speak — Online sensitivity to propositional truth-value of unrealistic counterfactual sentences Mante,Nieuwland; PPLS; mnieuwla@staffmail.ed.ac.uk Stress-testing GP — the phonology of Taa Julian,Bradfield; Informatics; jcb@inf.ed.ac.uk Reasons for Reading in Rhyme Louise,Shepperd; None; None Turning the pipeline into a loop: Iterated unsupervised dependencyContinue reading The 34th Language Lunch

The 33rd Language Lunch Date: 2012-06-08 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum Assertion: What’s at Stake? Allan,Hazlett; PPLS; ahazlett@staffmail.ed.ac.uk Robin,McKenna; PPLS; s0900588@sms.ed.ac.uk Joey,Pollock; PPLS; s0967156@sms.ed.ac.uk Recent research in the philosophy of language has sought to give an account of the nature of assertion. Some define assertion in terms of the norm that governs it, others in termsContinue reading The 33rd Language Lunch

The 32nd Language Lunch Date: 2012-04-12 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum Determining the number of speakers in a meeting using microphone array features Erich,Zwyssig; EADS IW; e.p.zwyssig@sms.ed.ac.uk Steve,Renals; Informatics; S.Renals@ed.ac.uk Mike,Lincoln; Informatics; mlincol1@inf.ed.ac.uk The accuracy of speaker diarisation in meetings relies heavily on determining the correct number of speakers. In this paper we present a novelContinue reading The 32nd Language Lunch

The 31st Language Lunch Date: 2012-02-10 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum Using Latent Variable Models to Achieve Stochastic and Consistent User Simulation for Dialog Management Aciel,Eshky; informatics; a.eshky@sms.ed.ac.uk Ben,Allison; informatics; b.allison@inf.ed.ac.uk Mark,Steedman; informatics; steedman@inf.ed.ac.uk User simulation is a vital component in training and evaluating statistical dialog systems. However, while the dialog managers they inform have becomeContinue reading The 31st Language Lunch

The 30th Language Lunch Date: 2011-12-01 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum Annotating Attribution Relations: Towards source sensitivity within text Silvia,Pareti; informatics; s.pareti@sms.ed.ac.uk “Efforts to extract attribution relations have multiplied in recent years, due to their relevance in particular for Opinion Analysis and Information Extraction applications. Being able to correctly identify the source (either a specific entityContinue reading The 30th Language Lunch

The 29th Language Lunch Date: 2011-10-07 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum Eye movements and perceptual span in people who stutter Sam,Miller; Psychology; s1029768@sms.ed.ac.uk Madeleine,Beveridge; PPLS; S0946253@sms.ed.ac.uk Richard,Shillcock; Informatics; rcs@inf.ed.ac.uk Recent evidence suggests that people who stutter (PWS) may display different eye movement behaviour in silent reading compared with people who do not stutter (Corcoran & Frisson,Continue reading The 29th Language Lunch