On Friday 4 October 2019, from 3.30pm, ILLC will open its doors for its first Open Day. The Open day is aimed at colleagues from UvA and CWI interested in the research done at ILLC.

 

Highlights:

• Enjoy a live interview with Alexandru Baltag, on Explainable AI, Logic and the Iron Curtain -- interview by Dieuwke Hupkes & Jelle Zuidema
  
• Listen to talks, watch research posters and talk to the researchers
• Experience demo's on machine translation, predicting brain activity and analysis of deep learning algorithms.
• Play a selection of games and puzzles (Mastermind, Go, Sudoku, Towers of Hanoi) and learn what these games have to do with research at ILLC.
• Listen to musical performances, and stay for the drinks.

 

Practicalities:

Doors open at 3.30pm; program starts at 4.00pm. Enter via side-entrance of Science Park 107 behind the Amsterdam University College.

Flash talks about 5 of ILLC's 9 ERC & VICI projects (Common room, first floor, 17.30 - 18.00)

• Floris Roelofsen
  Quantification and Modality in the realm of Questions (QuModQu)
  https://www.florisroelofsen.com/

• Aybüke Özgün (ERC Franz Berto)
  The Logic of Conceivability (LoC)
  http://projects.illc.uva.nl/conceivability/

• Milica Denic (ERC Jakub Szymanik)
  Cognitive Semantics and Quantities (CoSaQ)
  https://www.jakubszymanik.com/CoSaQ/

• Ronald de Haan (VICI Ulle Endriss)
  Collective information
  http://www.illc.uva.nl/NewsandEvents/News/Projects-and-Awards/newsitem/9711/VICI-grant-for-Ulle-Endriss

• Luca Incurvati
  EXPRESS: From the Expression of Disagreement to New Foundations for Expressivist Semantics
  https://inferentialexpressivism.com/

 

Demos (SP107 2.01/2.02/2.19, parallel session, 16.30 - 17.30)

2.01

• Henkjan Honing - The Evolving Animal Orchestra: The Quiz

2.02

• Wilker Aziz - Interpreting neural predictions with sparse latent variables
  

• Bryan Eikema - Generating parallel data from a continuous latent space

2.19

• Dieuwke Hupkes - Deep Learning Interpretability

• Samira Abnar - Deep Language Models & Brain decoding

• Fabian Schlotterbeck - Experiments on decision processes in quantifier verification

• Levin Hornischer - Bridging Logic and Neural Networks

 

Short Talks (SP107 0.20/0.22, ground floor, parallel session, 16.30 - 17.30):

0.20

• 16:30 - 16:45
  

  Dean McHugh - The foundations of mechanistic reasoning

• 16:50 - 17:05
  

  Lorenzo Galeotti - Bolzano-Weierstrass properties of non-archimedean fields

• 17:10 - 17:25
  Robert van Rooij & Katrin Schultz - Conditionals, Generics and Causality

0.22

• 16:30 - 16:45
  

  Jelke Bloem - Modeling meaning and change in the history of ideas

• 16:50 - 17:05
  Tom Lentz - Machine learning as a tool for linguistic pattern comparisons

• 17:10 - 17:25
  Maria Aloni - Logic and Language: the case of free choice (TBC)
  

Posters (Second floor, parallel session, 16.30 - 17.30):

• Ronald de Haan - Strategic voting

• Anna Hiemstra - Young Violinists in Motion: Violin Playing and Motor Development

• Mario Giulianelli - Contextualised Word Representations for Lexical Semantic Change Analysis

• Ece Takmaz - Enhancing Neural Image Captioning with Eye-Tracking

• Andres von Schnehen - Beyond the Musical Binary: The Past, Present, and Future of Research Exploring Brain and Cognitive Differences Between Musicians and Non-Musicians

• Sonia Ramotowska - Most, but not more than half, is proportion-dependent and sensitive to individual differences