ESSLLI 2010

Open FoLLi Meeting and Reception

Rasmus K. Rendsvig — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:52:56 +0000

As ESSLLI participants, you are also members of FoLLI, the Association for Logic, Language and Information. Your are all welcome at the FoLLI General Meeting, where you’ll get information about the current state and future developments of the Association.

The meeting will commence with an informal reception with something to eat and drink. After, the evening lecture of Johan van Benthem will commence.

Place/time: Thursday, August 19, 18.45-19.30
Location: 23.0.50

More Room Changes for Week 2

Rasmus K. Rendsvig — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:48:04 +0000

“Logic, Interaction and Collective Agency“, 11-12:30 will from Tuesday, August 17 moves to Auditorium 21.1.21

“Theories of Information, Dynamics and Interaction and their Application to Dialogue“, 11-12:30 will from Tuesday, August 17 move to Auditorium 21.1.47

“Logic, Rationality and Intelligent Interaction“, 14-15:30 will from Tuesday, August 17 move to Auditorium 21.1.21

“Game Theoretic Pragmatics“, 14-15:30 will from Tuesday, August 17 move to Auditorium 21.1.47

“Words and their Secrets“, 11-12:30 will from Tuesday, August 17 move to Auditorium 21.1.15

“Compositionality“, 11-12:30 will from Tuesday, August 17 move to Auditorium 22.0.11

Larry Moss’ Course Rescheduled for Week 2

Rasmus K. Rendsvig — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 09:38:16 +0000

Larry Moss’ course on “Logics for Natural Language Inference” has been rescheduled for the 2nd week of ESSLLI, Monday, August 16-20, 14:00-15:30, Auditorium 21.0.19.

Auditorium Change Week 2

Rasmus K. Rendsvig — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:26:00 +0000

The course on “Interactive Machine Translation and Human Translation Processes“, 17:00-18:30 has been moved to Auditorium 22.0.11. The course on “Empirically-Based Multi-Modal Studies“, 17:00-18:30 has been moved to Auditorium 27.0.09.

Student Session Papers Online

Rasmus K. Rendsvig — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 06:50:54 +0000

The full papers presented at the student sessions are now available for download. Visit the student session website for links.

ECTS Certificates

Rasmus K. Rendsvig — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:40:56 +0000

As of Thursday, August 12, 2010, students who have participated fully for the first week of courses and only is here for the first week may come to the registration desk and retrieve their ESSLLI 2010 Certificate worth 3 ECTS points.

Students who are here for the full two weeks may collect their ESSLLI 2010 Certificate 6 ECTS points starting Thursday, August 19, 2010 at the registration desk.

Places for Lunch

Rasmus K. Rendsvig — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:40:12 +0000

Kulturhuset Islands Brygge — continue down Njalsgade to the waterfront, then Kulturhuset is on the left. Serves cheap-ish dishes.

Cavallino Pizzaria & Sandwich Bar — On Kongedybet 28, very close by. Serves nice Italian pizzas (50-60 kr.) and more. There are menus at the reception desk if you want to call down and order.

More Pizza: There are plenty of pizzarias around — this is a link to Google maps. Click “Search nearby” on the left and type in “pizza”. Some have websites with menus and numbers for pre-ordering.

Bagel House: There is also a bagel house a little up Amagerbrogade — see here.

Supermarkets: There are two supermarkets on Njalsgade, towards the water. The first from the site is SuperBrugsen, the second is Fakta, which is a bit cheaper. Both lie on the right hand side.

Course Postponed: Logics for Natural Language Inference

Rasmus K. Rendsvig — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 10:49:08 +0000

The advanced course Logics for natural language inference to be held by Larry Moss has been postponed ~~until further notice. At this point it is unsure whether the course may be held in week 2.~~ to slot 3, week 2.

The course was to be held in week 1, 17.00-18.30. Other courses available in this period are:

LaCo:
Jong Sup Jun: Log-Linear Regression in Corpus Linguistics, introductory
Auditorium: 27.0.09

Patrick Juola: Authorship attribution and stylometry, introductory
Auditorium: 22.0.11

LoCo:
Olivier Gasquet and Andreas Herzig: Kripke’s World: an introduction to modal logics via tableau systems, foundational
Auditorium: 23.0.49

Dietrich Kuske: Automatic structures, advanced
Auditorium: 21.0.19

LoLa:

Olga Borik and Maarten Janssen: Formal Approaches to Thematic/ Semantic Roles, introductory
Auditorium: 21.1.21

Social Meeting Point: Islands Brygge

Rasmus K. Rendsvig — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 10:44:13 +0000

Close to the ESSLLI 2010 site lies a waterfront park called Islands Brygge. Here, there is a free outside habor bath, lawns for sunbathing and great ice cream for those warm lunch breaks.

We will have a meeting point near Kulturhuset on Islands Brygge. Here we will meet in when going to various social events, and one may choose to look for fellow ESSLLI participants close by.

Students vs. Lectures Soccer Match

Rasmus K. Rendsvig — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 10:40:33 +0000

On Saturday the 14/8, 14.00, the traditional students vs. lectures soccer match will take place. We have booked an 11 person field at Kløvermarken, in the period 14.00-16.00. The teams will be made in an unformal fashion on site.

A walking party will depart from the social meeting point at Islands Brygge at 13.00 — when the boat sightseeing tour returns to the same location.