Look Who’s Talking!

Two papers from the department will be presented at the International Conference on Learning Representations:

  • Sam Bowman will present “Can recursive neural tensor networks learn logical reasoning?
  • Sida I. Wang, Roy Frostig, Percy Liang, and Christopher D. Manning will present “Relaxations for inference in restricted Boltzmann machines”

Penny Eckert presented at the University of Arizona on March 27 on “Looking for meaning in all the right places” as part of their School of Anthropology Distinguished Lecture Series.

Alum Rob Munro will be speaking at the Stanford Computational Social Science conference today on “Crowdsourcing and Natural Language Processing for the Social Good”.

Alum Philip Hofmeister is teaching a course on “The psycholinguistics of island effects” at the GLOW 37 Spring School in Brussels from April 7-11.

Dan Lassiter is an invited speaker at CLS 50 this weekend. He’ll present his paper “Information, cost, and monotonicity: Experiments on ought“.