'K + K = 120' Workshop

Dedicated to László Kálmán and András Kornai on the occasion of their 60th birthdays

Date: 18 December 2017, 11:00 – 18:00

Venue: Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 13 Teréz körút Budapest (temporary address), Lecture Room 108

Program:

		program (pdf)
11:00 – 11:10	Introduction
11:10 – 11:30	Márton Makrai (RIL HAS Budapest): Do multi-sense word embeddings learn more senses?
11:30 – 11:50	Judit Ács (SZTAKI HAS & BME Budapest), Dávid Nemeskey (SZTAKI HAS Budapest), and Gábor Recski (BME Budapest): Building word embeddings from dictionary definitions
11:50 – 12:10	Angelika Kiss (U. Toronto): On biased questions and highlighted propositions
12:10 – 12:30	Beáta Gyuris (RIL HAS Budapest): Rising declaratives and their Hungarian counterparts
12:30 – 14:00	lunch break
14:00 – 14:20	Maik Gibson (SIL International): Does literacy no longer need an institution to remain sustainable? Some reflections on the impact of texting and messaging
14:20 – 14:40	Tamás Biró (ELTE Budapest): From Harmonic Grammar to Optimality Theory: The strict domination limit
14:40 – 15:00	Michael Bukatin (HERE Technologies) and Jon Anthony (Boston College): Dataflow matrix machines and V-values: a bridge between programs and neural nets (video presentation)
15:00 – 15:20	Anssi Yli-Jyrä (U. Helsinki): The regular universe of language models and its continuing expansion
15:20 – 15:40	coffee break
15:40 – 16:00	Paul Dekker (U. Amsterdam): Propositions and propositions
16:00 – 16:20	Marcus Kracht (U. Bielefeld): Independence is not so trivial
16:20 – 18:00	short presentations by Márton András Baló, Tibor Beke, László Fejes, Gábor Prószéky, Péter Rebrus, Dániel Vásárhelyi, and Zsófia Zvolenszky, among others