SEMINARS ON NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
Seminar rooms:

A105

METU Computer Engineering Building, A Block, Seminar Room

A331

Bilkent University, Engineering Building, Room A331

G102

Middle East Technical University, Computer Center, Room G102

BMB4

Middle East Technical University, Computer Engineering Building A Block, Room BMB4

1998

1. Scrambling in German-- Extraction into the Mittelfeld
   Stefan Müller, DFKI Saarbrücken (April 27, 10:30, A105)

2. Yet Another Paper about Partial Verb Phrase Fronting in German
   Stefan Müller, DFKI Saarbrücken (April 28, 14:30, A331)

1. Natural Language Research at NMSU CRL: An Overview
   Sergei Nirenburg, New Mexico State Univ. (December 24, 10:30, A331)

2. Practical Ontological Computational Semantics
   Sergei Nirenburg, New Mexico State Univ. (December 23, 15.30, A331)

3. Finite-State Model to Nonlinear Rewrite Rules Systems II
   George Kiraz, Lucent-Bell Labs (October 22, 15.00, A105)

4. Finite-State Model to Nonlinear Rewrite Rules Systems I
   George Kiraz, Lucent-Bell Labs (October 21, 14.00, A331)

5. L(inear)P(recedence) constraints: A case study of constraint programming for NLP
   Suresh Manandhar, University of York, (April 10, 15.45, A331)

6. A Tutorial on Typed Feature Formalisms
   Suresh Manandhar, University of York, (April 9, 14.30, A105)

7. Flexible Constituency, CG, and Turkish
   Cem Bozsahin, METU, (Feb. 7, 14.30, Bogazici Univ., Basic Sci. Bldg., Rm.415)

1. A Cognitive Model for Analogy-Making
   Ali Tamur, METU, (November 22, 13.40, A105)

2. Contextually appropriate generation of pronouns/anaphora
   Ozgur Yuksel, METU, (November 15, 13.40, A105)

3. Combinators in logic, language, and programming
   Cem Bozsahin, METU, (October 11, 13.40, A105)

4. Pairs of Interesting Words are Likely to be Interesting,
   Ken Church, AT&T Research (September 16, 9.45, Bilkent Eng. aud.)

5. The Turkish Relative Clause Problem
   Jorge Hankamer, UC Santa Cruz, (September 4, 14.30, A105)

6. Root-driven Morphological Parsing
   Jorge Hankamer, UC Santa Cruz, (September 3, 14.30, A331)

7. The wide Scope of Nonspecific Objects in Turkish
   Sarah D. Kennelly, Rutgers, (July 24, 14.00, A331)

8. Nonspecificity =3D Theticity
   Sarah D. Kennelly, Rutgers, (July 24, 15.30, A331)

9. A computational theory of contextual dependence
   Steve Pulman, SRI Cambridge and Cambridge University, (June 11, 14.40, A331)

10. Determination of aspectual status
    Steve Pulman, SRI Cambridge and Cambridge University, (June 12, 14.00, A105)

11. Finite-state Automata in Computational Linguistics
    Lauri Karttunen, Rank-Xerox Grenoble, (May 29, A331)

12. Finite-state methods for Light parsing
    Lauri Karttunen, Rank-Xerox Grenoble, (May 30, 15:30, BMB4)

13. A Cognitive-semantic approach to Turkish verbs and verbal categoriality: preliminaries
    Deniz Zeyrek, METU, (May 15, 11:00am, A102)

14. Tactical Generation in a free constituent order
    Dilek Hakkani, Bilkent CEIS (Tuesday 26 March 1996 at 14:40 Room A331).

1. Issues in Turkish Syntax-I
   Sumru Özsoy, Bogaziçi University, (March 15, Wed., 1995, 13:40, BMB4)

2. Issues in Turkish Syntax-II
   Sumru Özsoy, Bogaziçi University, (March 16, Thurs., 15:30, A331)

3. A Computational Framework for Composition in Multiple Linguistic Domains
   Elvan Göçmen, Middle East Technical University, (April 7, Fri., 13:40, G102)

4. Government-Binding Theory and Language Acquisition
   Aysenur Birtürk, Middle East Technical University, (April 14, Fri., 15:40, G102)

5. An Information Based Approach to Turkish Syntax
   Onur Sehitoglu, Middle East Technical University, (April 28, Fri., 13:40, G102)

6. Robust Finite State Recognition
   Kemal Oflazer, Bilkent University, (May 3, Wed., 16:30, A331)

7. Finite-state models for Morphotactics/Morphophonemics
   Murat Oztaner, METU, (July 20, Thurs, rm. D-222 at EE Dept)

8. Two-phase conceptual clustering without order dependency
   Ilker Altintas, METU, (October 27, Friday, 10:40 at rm A101)

9. Formal Analysis of Grammars for "Free" Word Order Languages
   Beryl Hoffman, Edinburgh, (December 18, Mon, 14:00, at A331)

10. Generating Context-Appropriate Word Orders in Turkish
    Beryl Hoffman, Edinburgh, (December 19, Tue, 14:00, at BMB4)

11. Null vs Overt Subjects and Objects in Turkish Discourse
    Umit Turan, Eskisehir Anadolu U., (December 18, Mon, 15:30, at A331)

1. Left-to-right Incremental Parsing
   Tolga Yazar, Middle East Technical University, (March 30, 1994)

2. Spelling Correction in Agglutinative Languages
   Cemaleddin Güzey, Bilkent University, (April 6, 1994)

3. Categorial Grammars
   Cem Bozsahin, Middle East Technical University, (April 13, 1994)

4. A Tool for Tagging Turkish Text
   Ilker Kuruöz, (April 20, 1994)

5. Situation Semantics as Natural Language Semantics
   Erkan Tin, Bilkent University, (April 27, 1994)

6. Cognition: A parametric view
   Bob Berwick, MIT (June 22, 1994, METU Eng Bldg, Rm. MM25)

7. From Rules to Principles
   Bob Berwick, MIT (June 23, 1994, A331)

All seminars are at 11am. Place and abstracts will be announced later

1. Two-level morphology specification - Introduction
   Kemal Oflazer, Bilkent University, (March 3, 1993)

2. Theory of types for computational semantics
   Cem Bozsahin, METU, (March 10, 1993)

3. Two-level morphological specification of Turkish.
   Kemal Oflazer, Bilkent University, (March 17, 1993)

4. A lexical-functional grammar for a subset Turkish.
   Zelal Güngördü, Bilkent University, (March 31, 1993)

5. Artificial neural network applications in natural language processing
   Didem Ünlü, METU, (April 7, 1993)

6. Systemic framework in text generation
   Hakan Öztürk, Bilkent University, (April 14, 1993)

7. A DCG parser and semantic interpreter for a subset of English
   Elvan Göçmen, METU, (April 21, 1993)

8. An ATN grammar for a subset of Turkish
   Coskun Demir, Bilkent University, (April 28, 1993)

9. Knowledge-based translation from English to Turkish
   Çigdem Keyder, METU, (May 5, 1993)