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Contracts and Computation Workshop

2017-11-02

In conjunction with John's PhD defence, a workshop was organised where members of the defence grading committee and other guests from industry presented current research and work in the are of computational contracts and law.

John's PhD defence

2017-11-01

John defended his PhD thesis Contracts and Computation — Formal modelling and analysis for normative natural language. The opponent was Giovanni Sartor from the University of Bologna and European University Institute of Florence.

Prasanth's licentiate thesis

2016-09-15

Prasanth presented his licentiate thesis Multilingual Grammars and Universal Dependencies. The discussion leader for the seminar was Filip Ginter from the University of Turku.

Google Tech Talk on GF

2016-09-07

Aarne Ranta gave a talk at Google Zurich entitled "Grammatical Framework: Formalizing the Grammar of the World". The talk is available at Youtube.

Second REMU Retreat

2016-08-25 – 2015-08-26

The second annual retreat was held for the REMU group, where we discussed the plans for the final year and began work on a flagship for the project. Minutes of the meeting can be found here.

RBMT Summer School in Alicante, Spain

2016-07-11 – 2016-07-22

Krasimir and Inari are teaching in the first Summer School in Rule-Based Machine Translation, featuring 4 free/open-source machine translation systems: Apertium, GF, Matxin and TectoMT. More information about the summer school can be found on the webpage.

Inari's licentiate thesis

2016-06-03

Inari presented her licentiate thesis Analysing Constraint Grammar with SAT. The discussion leader for the seminar was Eckhard Bick from the University of Southern Denmark.

Grégoire's PhD defence

2016-06-02

Grégoire defended his PhD thesis Methods and Tools for Automating Language Engineering. The opponent was Måns Huldén from the University of Colorado.

John's licentiate thesis

2015-10-29

John presented his licentiate thesis today, entitled Analysing normative contracts — On the semantic gap between natural and formal languages. The discussion leader for the seminar was Adam Zachary Wyner from the University of Aberdeen.

Five papers presented at ACL 2015 workshops

2015-07-30 – 2015-07-31

Four papers were presented at the workshop on Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks (GEAF):

One paper was presented at the workshop on Chinese Language Processing (SIGHAN):
Chinese in the Grammatical Framework: Grammar, Translation, and Other Applications

Fourth GF Summer School in Gozo, Malta

2015-07-13 – 2015-07-24

The fourth edition of the Grammatical Framework (GF) Summer School was held in Marsalforn on the island of Gozo, Malta. Details about the talks and presentations can be found at the Summer School webpage.

First REMU Retreat

2015-04-23 – 2015-04-24

The first annual retreat was held for the REMU group, where everyone presented their current work. Abstracts from the talks can be found here.

Presentation at NWPT 2014

2014-10-29 – 2014-10-31

John presented the current state of his research at the Nordic Workshop on Programming Theory (NWPT 2014) in Halmstad, Sweden, in a presentation entitled A toolkit for the analysis of normative texts.

Three papers and an invited talk at CNL 2014

2014-08-20 – 2014-08-22

A number of us were present at the 4th Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2014) in Galway, Ireland. This included three published papers:

Project leader Aarne Ranta was also an invited speaker at the event, presenting a talk entitled Embedded Controlled Languages.

Invited talk at WoLLIC

2014-09-01 – 2014-09-04

Aarne Ranta has been invited to talk at the 21st Workshop on Logic, Language, Information, and Computation in Valparaiso, Chile.

Invited talk at Vienna Summer of Logic

2014-07-09 – 2014-07-24

Aarne Ranta has been invited to talk at the joint NLCS/NLSR workshop at Vienna Summer of Logic, a cluster of logic-related conferences in Vienna, Austria.

Four papers presented at LREC

2014-05-26 – 2014-05-31

At the 9th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), the major event on language resources and evaluation for human language technologies, three REMU papers were presented at the main conference: Sharing Resources Between Free/Open-Source Rule-based Machine Translation Systems: Grammatical Framework and Apertium, Bootstrapping Open-Source English-Bulgarian Computational Dictionary and Extracting a bilingual semantic grammar from FrameNet-annotated corpora. One paper was presented at a satellite workshop: Computational Estonian Grammar in Grammatical Framework.

Talk on electronic contracts at NRCCL

2014-05-13

John gave a talk at the Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law (NRCCL) at the University of Oslo, about past and current research in computational models for contracts. Talk details are available here, and slides are here.

Two talks at Vetenskapsfestivalen

2014-05-08

The REMU team presented two talks at Gothenburg's Vetenskapsfestivalen, titled Den grammatiska datorn [slides], and Vägar till bättre översättningsprogram [slides].

The EACL Conference in Gothenburg

2014-04-26 – 2014-04-30

REMU team was heavily involved in the organization of the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics in Gothenburg, with Aarne Ranta as a local co-chair and other team members in various organization tasks. EACL is one of the top conferences in computational linguistics, and gathered this time over 500 participants. The REMU team had a system demo Speech-Enabled Hybrid Multilingual Translation for Mobile Devices and an invited workshop talk, Types and Records for Predication. Krasimir Angelov and Peter Ljunglöf, working closely with REMU, had a main conference paper Fast Statistical Parsing with Parallel Multiple Context-Free Grammars.

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