Look before you leap

Forum Lecture by Maria Polinsky, at the Charles M. Harper Center, room 104, at 6pm. Reception to follow at 7:30pm at the Smart Museum, on 5550 S. Greenwood Ave..

The Dictionary as Data: What the Online Dictionary Tells Us About English

Peter Sokolowski, Editor-at-Large, Merriam-Webster
https://twitter.com/PeterSokolowski

Time: July 23, 9:20-10:20, Harper 140

Stop your students from citing Wikipedia -- have them add to it instead!

The ‘genius' of the language: discovering pervasive plan and unique design in linguistic description

Lecture by Anthony Woodbury, Hale Professor, at the Max Palevsky Cinema in Ida Noyes, at 6pm. Reception to follow at 7:30pm at the Cloister Club, also in Ida Noyes.

Video of the lecture can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOdZLHWlxWU

Institute-wide poster session for presenting your recent or ongoing work to other Institute participants. Sign up to present a poster by finding the link on your account page in the registration system. The link will appear when your account is marked paid in full. Please sign up by June 15.

Institute-wide poster session for presenting your recent or ongoing work to other Institute participants. Sign up to present a poster by finding the link on your account page in the registration system. The link will appear when your account is marked paid in full. Please sign up by June 15.

Conference Program
https://lsa2015.uchicago.edu/file/2015icklharvardisoklprogram20for20lsa2...

2015 International Conference on Korean Linguistics

Abstracts are solicited for the first joint meeting of the ICKL (International Circle of Korean Linguistics) and the Harvard-ISOKL (International Symposium on Korean Linguistics) to be held on July 24-26, 2015, at the University of Chicago, in conjunction with the Summer Institute of the Linguistic Society of America.

MONDAY JULY 13 TO FRIDAY JULY 17, AT 5-6PM.

This workshop is about transforming linguistic data into logic puzzles for use in contests, entertainment, or education. We are focusing specifically on creating puzzles for high school linguistic Olympiad contests. The workshop is held in five evening sessions so that participants have time to debug and validate each others puzzles.

Please join LSA President John Rickford (Stanford University) for a discussion of how the LSA can best meet the needs of the linguistics community. Breakfast courtesy of LSA.

Like other LSA focus groups at the Institute, this focus groups will be held at Stuart 216. RSVP required. Please RSVP to intern@lsadc.org no later than July 9, 2015. Please specify which date/time you plan to attend. To ensure the quality of the discussions and due to space limitations, the cut-off for these activities is 20 participants.

Please join LSA President John Rickford (Stanford University) for a discussion of how the LSA can best meet the needs of the linguistics community. Breakfast courtesy of LSA.

Like other LSA focus groups at the Institute, this focus groups will be held at Stuart 216. RSVP required. Please RSVP to intern@lsadc.org no later than July 9, 2015. Please specify which date/time you plan to attend. To ensure the quality of the discussions and due to space limitations, the cut-off for these activities is 20 participants.

Please join Ivy Hauser (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Student Member of the LSA Executive Committee and Chair of the LSA Committee on Student Issues and Concerns for a discussion of how the LSA can best meet the needs of linguistics students. Pizza and soft drinks courtesy of LSA.

A pre-screening of the one-hour documentary Rising Voices/Hótȟaŋiŋpi that follows the efforts of Lakota tribal members to preserve their language. You can view the trailer at http://www.risingvoicesfilm.com.

Professional Paths for Linguists: Preparing For What’s Next

Anna Marie Trester, Associate at FrameWorks Institute and Anastasia Nylund, Director, MA in Language and Communication at Georgetown University

Saturday July 18th

Please come learn about safety and security on campus and in Hyde Park. We strongly recommend you attend one of these two sessions.

The sessions will be 30 minutes long each, and will start at 9:30am and 2pm.

Please come learn about safety and security on campus and in Hyde Park. We strongly recommend you attend one of these two sessions.

The sessions will be 30 minutes long each, and will start at 9:30am and 2pm.

Please come learn about safety and security on campus and in Hyde Park. We strongly recommend you attend this session, unless you previously attended one on July 8th.

Grammar with Gradient Symbol Structures

Lecture by Paul Smolensky, Sapir Professor, at the Max Palevsky Cinema in Ida Noyes, at 6pm. Reception to follow at 7:30pm at the Cloister Club, also in Ida Noyes.

Access to large amounts of natural language from a variety of genres is vital for various aspects of modern language research: grammar and usage patterns, sense distribution, discourse analysis, and language modeling, to name a few. Sketch Engine provides access to billion-word corpora in the world’s major languages, along with smaller corpora (five million to one billion words) in sixty other languages. Sketch Engine also provides licensees with the ability to build their own corpora and access them via Sketch Engine’s built-in querying system.

The HathiTrust (HT) is a research consortium and digital library consisting of more than 13 million volumes of digitized text, mostly from the world's foremost research libraries. A large part of this material is under copyright and hence not directly downloadable. The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) has started developing facilities for non-consumptive access to the text data by providing innovative means of analytical access (without allowing download-access) to the text data. The workshop is intended for students and researchers interested in textual analytics using the HTRC corpus.

Many contributors to theoretical syntax and phonology, e.g. Goldsmith, Uriagereka, Vergnaud, Idsardi, Smolensky, and Prince, have used dynamical systems analysis to make sense of some fundamental computational properties of natural language. Yet, dynamical systems analysis does not usually form part of the linguistics curriculum.