Laboratory for the Computational Studies of Language


METU Cognitive Science Colloquium --- Spring 2001

Comp Eng Bldg, room A101, METU

February 9, 10:30

An Introduction to A Priori Artificial Languages
Alan Libert
Univ. of Newcastle, NSW

February 16, 10:30

Some Possible Peculiarities in A Priori Languages
Alan Libert
Univ. of Newcastle, NSW



METU Cognitive Science Colloquium --- Fall 2000

Tuesdays, 13:30, Comp Eng Bldg, room A101, METU

November 7

Linguistic discourse in architecture
Inci Kale Basa
Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design, Bilkent University

November 21

İngilizcede kılıcısız geçişsiz eylemlerin Türk öğrenciler tarafından kullanımı
Abdullah Can
İngiliz Dili Eğitimi Bölümü, Uludağ Universitesi

November 28

Difficulty in understanding speech in background noise: Data from persons with normal hearing
Ayşegül Fışıloğlu
Department of Psychology, Middle East Technical University

December 5

Normal and disordered phonological development in Turkish
Seyhun Topbaş
Department of Special Education, Anadolu Universitesi

December 12

Computational challenges in image analysis
Sibel Tarı
Department of Engineering Sciences, Middle East Technical University

December 19

AcI and Word Order in Classical Latin
Evren Erem
University of Istanbul




METU Cognitive Science Colloquium --- Spring 2000

Wednesdays, 12:40, Comp Eng Bldg, room A105, METU

March 22Iclal Ergenc, Ankara Universitesi Turkce'nin sesbilimsel yapisi
March 29Bulent Celasun, GATA Nasil Tani koyuyoruz?
April 12Hasan Gurkan Tekman, METU Psychoacoustic determinants of the use of time in musical performance
April 21Sami Gulgoz, Koc Univ. Coherence analysis and text design
(CANCELLED ^)
May 3Hamdullah Aydin, GATA Dusunme, hayal, ruya
May 17Derya Surekli, Marmara Univ. Uykusuzlugun elektrofizyoloji ile iliskisi

contact: Hasan Gurkan Tekman



METU Cognitive Science Colloquium --- Fall'99

Wednesdays, 17:00, Comp Eng Bldg, room A105, METU

Nov 17Deniz Zeyrek, Cem Bozsahin (METU) Competence and Computation: Grammar in Action
Nov 24Sirel Karakas (Hacettepe) A window to cognitive processing: neuroelectric responses of the brain
Dec 1Gurkan Tekman, Sibel Kazak Berument (METU) Autism, ability to make inferences and theory of mind
Dec 8Cigdem Ozesmi (Erciyes) Beyin Elektriksel Aktivitesinin Kayitlanmasi ve Kognitif Surecler Yonunden Incelenmesi
Dec 15Guven Burc Arpat (METU) Modelling Human Eye as a Feature Detector by Means of Neural Networks
Dec 22Koray Balci (METU) Psychological and Computational Aspects of Face Recognition
Dec 29Cagri Coltekin (METU) Connectionism and Morpheme Segmentation
Jan 5Filiz Yilmaz Bican (METU) How Do We Manipulate Information Using Linguistic Input and Output?
Jan 12Harun Binis (METU) Cue Phrases in Turkish Discourse

contact: Samet Bagce



METU Cognitive Science Colloquium --- Spring'99

Wednesdays, 12.40, Comp Eng Bldg, room A105, METU

Feb 24 Samet Bagce (METU-Philosophy) The Role of Heuristics in Discovery
March 17 Umit Turan (METU-CogSci) Language, Linguistics and Other Cognitive Sciences
March 24 Seda Usubutun (METU-Psychology) "Linguistic Category Model" by Semin in Causal Attributions
April 7 Bilge Say (METU-CogSci) Discourse Markers
April 14 Sarah Kennelly (Utrecht-Linguistics) Focus = Distributivity
April 21 Gul Durmusoglu-Kose (Anadolu U.-Linguistics) Parallel Texts
May 5 Wolf Konig (METU-Foreign Lang.) Nominal Compounds in Turkish
May 12 Oguz Tanridag (GATA) Aphasia
May 26 Yilmaz Kilicaslan (Edinburgh-CogSci) Topic TBA
July 16 Alan Libert (Newcastle-Linguistics) Nominative Objects of Adpositions

contact: Cem Bozsahin


METU Cognitive Science Colloquium --- Fall'98

Thursdays, 17:30, Main Eng. Bldg, MM452 November 12 Pinar Saygin - Turing Test: 50 Years Later November 26 Aysenur Birturk - Turkish Compounds December 3 Arto Siitonen - Rules of Thought vs. Processes of the Brain December 17 Cem Bozsahin - Morphology-Syntax-Semantics Interface December 24 Yasemin Altun - Acquisition of Turkish morphology using inductive logic programing techniques December 31 Samet Bagce - To be Announced

contact: Bilge Say


METU Cognitive Science Colloquium --- Spring'98

Wednesdays 12:40-13:30 , Comp Eng Bldg, rm A105, METU March 4 Wolf Konig - Prefixes in Turkish March 11 Erdinc Sayan - Cloning and the Problem of Personal Identity April 15 Aysenur Birturk - Island Effects in Turkish May 20 Nuray Luk Yilmaz - Emotional Intelligence and "Descartes' Error" June 3 Sarah Kennelly - The Quantification/Aspect Interface in Turkish
Kennelly's talk is at room BMB-4 (same bldg.)

contact: Cem Bozsahin


METU Cognitive Science Colloquium --- Fall'97

Wednesdays 12:30-13:30 , Comp Eng Bldg, rm A105, METU PLEASE NOTE CHANGE: No talk on 12 Nov. 22 Oct - Gurkan Tekman : Perceptual restoration and dynamic attending in the perception of rhythm 5 Nov - Zelal Gungordu : Incremental Constraint-based Parsing 19 Nov - Meltem Turhan/Onur Sehitoglu: Resolution of dropped pronouns in a Phrase Structure Grammar 26 Nov - Cem Bozsahin : Grammatical functions and the predicate-argument structure 3 Dec - Bilge Say : An Information-Based Approach to Punctuation 10 Dec - Sukriye Ruhi: Ki: Complementizer or Anaphor ? 17 Dec - Marifi Guler: Bursting, spiking and syncronized action in chaotic model neurons 24 Dec - Aysenur Birturk: title to be announced later The talks are during the lunch break; feel free to bring your lunch.

contact: Cem Bozsahin


METU Cognitive Science Colloquium --- Spring'97




              Tuesdays, 12:00, room A105, METU Computer Engineering Bldg


April 1    Aysenur Birturk (METU)   "Scrambling in Turkish and its effects on
                                       Binding"

April 8    Cem Bozsahin (METU)      "Flexible Constituency"

April 15   Cem Bozsahin (METU)      "An algebraic view of scrambling in Turkish"

April 29   Armagan Yavuz (Bilkent)  "PAL: A Constructivist Model of Cognitive
                                        Activity"

May 6      Meltem Turhan (METU)      An overview of contemporary semantic formalisms:
                                     DRT and Situation Theory

May 13     David Davenport (Bilkent) Title to be announced later

June 3     Elvan Gocmen (METU)       Causatives



The talks are during the lunch break; feel free to bring your lunch.

contact: Cem Bozsahin