Dear Colleague,

You are cordially invited to the 'K + K = 120' Workshop, dedicated to László Kálmán and András Kornai on the occasion of their 60th birthdays.

The event is going to take place on 18 December 2017, in the lecture room of the Research Institute for Linguistics, HAS (13 Teréz krt. Budapest).

You can find the current version of the program below.

Please note that the number of seats is limited. Therefore, if wish to attend the workshop, please register using the link below BEFORE 4 DECEMBER 2017: https://goo.gl/forms/Iu8uo4UrBvcVYs8k2

With best wishes,

Beáta Gyuris, Katalin Mády and Gábor Recski (organisers)

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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

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  Dávid Nemeskey (SZTAKI HAS 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