Unique languages, universal patterns
Unique languages, universal patterns
Under the surface, English and Japanese have deep similarities, as MIT linguist Shigeru Miyagawa argues in his new book, Case, Argument Structure, and Word Order.
Samuel Jay Keyser - Interview No. 2 - Dec. 2, 2010
Samuel Jay Keyser - Interview No. 2 - Dec. 2, 2010
Second of three oral history interviews with Samuel Jay Keyser, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT, jazz trombonist, poet. Interviewed by Forrest Larson, MIT Lewis Music Library. Topics include: technical aspects of trombone ...
Samuel Jay Keyser - Interview No. 3 - Dec. 17, 2010
Samuel Jay Keyser - Interview No. 3 - Dec. 17, 2010
Third of three oral history interviews with Samuel Jay Keyser, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT, jazz trombonist, poet. Interviewed by Forrest Larson, MIT Lewis Music Library. Topics include: scientific and artistic creativity, ...
Celebrating Science and Engineering Breakthroughs III
Celebrating Science and Engineering Breakthroughs III
03/29/2011 10:30 AM KresgeSallie Chisholm, Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor of Environmental Studies and Professor of Biology, MIT; Regina Barzilay, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT:; Anette Hosoi, Associate Professor of ...
Samuel Jay Keyser - Interview No. 1 - Sept. 22, 2010
Samuel Jay Keyser - Interview No. 1 - Sept. 22, 2010
First of three oral history interviews with Samuel Jay Keyser, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT, jazz trombonist, poet. Interviewed by Forrest Larson, MIT Lewis Music Library. Topics include: musical experiences childhood ...
20th Killian Award Lecture (1992) - Noam Chomsky, ...
20th Killian Award Lecture (1992) - Noam Chomsky, "Language: The Cognitive ...
Professor Noam Chomsky delivers the 20th annual James R. Killian, Jr. Faculty Achievement Award and Lecture, titled "Language: the Cognitive Revolutions," on April 8, 1992. The Killian Award was established in 1971 to recognize extraordinary professional ...
Humanities in the Digital Age
Humanities in the Digital Age
Reports of the demise of the humanities are exaggerated, suggest these panelists, but there may be reason to fear its loss of relevance.
Rebuilding Haiti
Rebuilding Haiti
02/23/2010 4:00 PM Bartos theaterCherie Moit Abbanat, Lecture, Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the Department of Architecture, MIT; Michel DeGraff, Associate Professor of Linguistics, MIT; Erica James, Associate Professor of Anthropology at MIT; Dale Joachim, Visiting Scientist, ...
Computers with Commonsense: Artificial Intelligence at the ...
Computers with Commonsense: Artificial Intelligence at the MIT Round Table
06/06/2009 11:30 AM KresgePatrick Henry Winston, '65 SM'76, PhD '70, Ford Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science; Description: Visiting the San Diego Zoo's orangutans and chimpanzees inspires Patrick Henry Winston to ponder what makes humans ...
"Ideal" Language Learning and the Psychological Resource ...
"Ideal" Language Learning and the Psychological Resource Problem
10/19/2007 3:50 Wong AuditoriumWilliam Gregory Sakas, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Hunter College; Ph.D. Programs in Computer Science and Linguistics, The Graduate Center, City University of New York Description: Some linguists study what can ...
Explorations in Language Learnability Using Probabilistic ...
Explorations in Language Learnability Using Probabilistic Grammars and ...
10/19/2007 12:50 PM Wong AuditoriumJoshua Tenenbaum, PhD '99, Paul E. Newton Career Development Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MITDescription: How do kids manage to figure out that the word "dog" applies to a whole category of animals, not just ...
Have We All Been Right? Looking Backwards at Linguistic ...
Have We All Been Right? Looking Backwards at Linguistic Theory, ...
10/19/2007 4:45 PM Wong AuditoriumCharles Yang, SM '97, PhD '01, University of Pennsylvania; Jean"Roger Vergnaud, PhD '74, USC; Anna"Maria di Sciullo , University of Qu_bec; Norbert Hornstein, UMD; Robert Freidin, Princeton University; William Gregory Sakas, Associate ...
Human Simulations of Language Learning
Human Simulations of Language Learning
10/19/2007 9:30 AM Wong AuditoriumLila Gleitman, Professor Emerita, Department of Psychology,University of Pennsylvania; Michael Coen, '91, SM '94, PhD '06, University of Wisconsin"MadisonDescription: This workshop, explains Michael Coen, is an effort to engender temperate, collaborative ...
Machine Learning of Language from Distributional Evidence
Machine Learning of Language from Distributional Evidence
10/19/2007 10:45 AM Wong AuditoriumChris Manning, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Linguistics, Stanford UniversityDescription: Christopher Manning thinks linguistics went astray in the 20th century when it searched "for homogeneity in language, under the ...
Statistical Natural Language Parsing: Reliable Models of ...
Statistical Natural Language Parsing: Reliable Models of Language?
10/19/2007 3:15 PM Wong AuditoriumSandiway Fong, SM '86, PhD '91, Associate Professor, University of ArizonaDescription: The statistical natural language linguist owes much to the University of Pennsylvania's famous Treebank project. But this giant corpus of one ...
Structure Dependence, the Rational Learner, and Putnam's ...
Structure Dependence, the Rational Learner, and Putnam's "Sane Person"
10/19/2007 1:20 PM Wong AuditoriumHoward Lasnik, PhD '72, Distinguished University Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland; Juan Uriagereka, Professor, University of MarylandDescription: Young children say many surprising and funny things _ funny, ...
The Biology of the Language Faculty: Its Perfection, Past ...
The Biology of the Language Faculty: Its Perfection, Past and Future
10/19/2007 2:00 PM Wong AuditoriumNoam Chomsky, Institute Professor, MITDescription: Noam Chomsky, around whose work much of the Syntax series revolves, gives listeners a glimpse into the evolution of his own thinking, with an emphasis on areas of linguistics where ...
The Computational Nature of Language Learning
The Computational Nature of Language Learning
10/19/2007 11:15 AM Wong AuditoriumPartha Niyogi, SM '92, PhD '95, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science; Associate Professor, Physical Sciences Collegiate Division; Senior Fellow, Computation Institute, University of ChicagoDescription: Language ...
Discourses on Iraq and the Middle East
Discourses on Iraq and the Middle East
Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor, MIT Description: U.S. actions in Iraq get a thorough thrashing in this final chapter of the Reconstructing Iraq series. First, Yosef Jabareen sprints through editorial page cartoons from Arab print media, which represent the U.S. as immoral, abusive, greedy ...
Vietnam Remembered
Vietnam Remembered
In this bitter commemoration of the end of the Vietnam War, the speakers dispel any comforting notion that Americans have absorbed lessons from that bloody time, much less sought the truth.