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
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
| March 22 | Iclal Ergenc, Ankara Universitesi | Turkce'nin sesbilimsel yapisi |
| March 29 | Bulent Celasun, GATA | Nasil Tani koyuyoruz? |
| April 12 | Hasan Gurkan Tekman, METU | Psychoacoustic determinants of the use of time in musical performance |
| April 21 | Sami Gulgoz, Koc Univ. | Coherence analysis and text design |
| May 3 | Hamdullah Aydin, GATA | Dusunme, hayal, ruya |
| May 17 | Derya Surekli, Marmara Univ. | Uykusuzlugun elektrofizyoloji ile iliskisi |
contact: Hasan Gurkan Tekman
| Nov 17 | Deniz Zeyrek, Cem Bozsahin (METU) | Competence and Computation: Grammar in Action |
| Nov 24 | Sirel Karakas (Hacettepe) | A window to cognitive processing: neuroelectric responses of the brain |
| Dec 1 | Gurkan Tekman, Sibel Kazak Berument (METU) | Autism, ability to make inferences and theory of mind |
| Dec 8 | Cigdem Ozesmi (Erciyes) | Beyin Elektriksel Aktivitesinin Kayitlanmasi ve Kognitif Surecler Yonunden Incelenmesi |
| Dec 15 | Guven Burc Arpat (METU) | Modelling Human Eye as a Feature Detector by Means of Neural Networks |
| Dec 22 | Koray Balci (METU) | Psychological and Computational Aspects of Face Recognition |
| Dec 29 | Cagri Coltekin (METU) | Connectionism and Morpheme Segmentation |
| Jan 5 | Filiz Yilmaz Bican (METU) | How Do We Manipulate Information Using Linguistic Input and Output? |
| Jan 12 | Harun Binis (METU) | Cue Phrases in Turkish Discourse |
contact: Samet Bagce
| 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
Kennelly's talk is at room BMB-4 (same bldg.)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
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
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