List of publications

Tamás Biró

Linguistics:

Download my dissertation (pdf, approx. 2 Mbyte), the "stellingen" (pdf, 21 kbyte), and summaries in English, Dutch and Hungarian. Electronic version of the dissertation on the RuG website (including a picture of the cover, and also downloadable chapter-by-chapter), and in the catalogue of the RUG University Library.
Short summary of my thesis, as nominated for the Anéla-AVT dissertation price. Two versions of the poster: for linguists and for computational linguists. Taalgala, November 16, 2007, Utrecht, Netherlands.

• (in press) 'Will Optimality Theory colonize all of higher cognition?'. Commentary on Doug Jones: 'Human kinship, from conceptual structure to grammar'. Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) 33:5 (2010).

• OTKit: Tools for Optimality Theory. Software. Version 1.0 also as ROA-1067.

• 'Elephants and Optimality Again: SA-OT accounts for pronoun resolution in child language'. In: Plank, Barbara and Tjong Kim Sang, Erik and Van de Cruys, Tim (eds.). Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2009. LOT Occasional Series 14. LOT, 2009. Pp. 9-24.
  Pre-publication version. See also as ROA-1038.

• Alexis Dimitriadis, Menzo Windhouwer, Adam Saulwick, Rob Goedemans and Tamás Bíró. 'How to integrate databases without starting a typology war: The Typological Database System'. Download. In: Martin Everaert, Simon Musgrave and Alexis Dimitriadis (eds.): The Use of Databases in Cross-Linguistic Studies. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin – New York, 2009. More on the volume.

• 'The Benefits of Errors: Learning an OT Grammar with a Structured Candidate Set' In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Acquisition, pp. 81-88. Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007. Download or download from ACL Anthology. ROA-929. See also presentation.

• Finding the Right Words: Implementing Optimality Theory with Simulated Annealing, phd-thesis. GroDiL 62. ISBN 90-367-2876-2 (printed version), 90-367-2877-0 (electronic version). ROA-896. Submitted in 2006, defended on December 7, 2006 in Groningen.

• Demo page of SA-OT

• Tamás Bíró and Judit Gervain: L' Acantatrice Chauve, Loser candidates in SA-OT and speech rate, presented at the Third Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP3), Budapest, January 17, 2006.

• A sz.ot.ag -- Optimalitáselmélet szimulált hőkezeléssel [The s.yll.able -- Optimality Theory with Simulated Annealing], presentation at the Third Conference on Hungarian Computational Linguistics (MSZNY 2005), December 8-9, 2005, Szeged, Hungary. Appeared in the proceedings: III. Magyar Számítógépes Nyelvészeti Konferencia, pp. 29-40. Pictures.

• Bolyongás a jelöltek halmazán: Optimalitáselmélet szimulált hőkezeléssel [Roaming on the Candidate Set: Optimality Theory with Simulated Annealing], presentation at the 9th Conference of PhD Students in Linguistics in Hungary, Szeged, November 18, 2005 [Nyelvészeti Doktoranduszok 9. Országos Konferenciája]

• Squeezing the Infinite into the Finite: Handling the OT Candidate Set with Finite State Technology, paper presented at the workshop on Finite-State Methods in Natural Language Processing (FSMNLP 2005), Helsinki, 2005. Appeared in: Anssi Yli-Jyrä, Lauri Karttunen, Juhani Karhumäki (eds.): Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing, 5th International Workshop, FSMNLP 2005, Helsinki, Finland, September 2005, Revised Papers, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) 4002, Springer, Berlin -- Heidelberg, 2006, pp. 21-31. Electronic edition. ROA-1032. Google Books. DBLP BibTeX record.

• How to Define Simulated Annealing for Optimality Theory?, paper presented at the 10th Conference on Formal Grammar (FG) and the 9th Meeting on Mathematics of Language (MoL), Edinburgh, August 2005; paper appeared in the pre-proceedings. Final version in the official post-proceedings. See also ROA-897.

• When the Hothead Speaks: Simulated Annealing Optimality Theory for Dutch Fast Speech, in: Ton van der Wouden, Michaela Poss, Hilke Reckman and Crit Cremers (eds.): Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2004, Selected papers from the fifteenth CLIN meeting, LOT Occasional series, Utrecht, 2005, pp. 13-28 (web version). A newer version, without some typos, but also without the page numbers and formating as it appeared in print. ROA-898. DBLP BibTeX record.

• Tamás Bíró, Dicky Gilbers and Maarje Schreuder: Variations in Optimality Theory: Simulated Annealing and other methods. Presentation given at the TABU-day, Groningen, Netherlands, on June 3, 2005.

• When the Hothead Speaks: Simulated Annealing Optimality Theory for modeling fast speech phenomena, a paper presented at The 15th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN 2004), Leiden.

• Kis, Balazs**, Pohl, Gabor**, Villada Moiron, Begona*, Bouma, Gosse*, Ugray, Gabor**, Biro, Tamas*, Nerbonne, John** (*Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands; **MorphoLogic, Hungary): A dictionary-based approach to identification of multi-word terms exploiting grammatical restrictions, a paper presented at The 15th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN 2004), Leiden.

• Methods for the Extraction of Hungarian Multi-Word Lexemes, by Balazs Kis, Begona Villada Moirón, Tamás Bíró, Gosse Bouma, Gábor Pohl, Gábor Ugray, John Nerbonne, in: Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2003, Selected Papers from the Fourteenth CLIN meeting (Antwerp Papers in Linguistics, 111), eds.: Bart Decadt, Veronique Hoste and Guy De Pauw, Antwerp, 2004. DBLP BibTeX record.

• Balázs Kis, Begona Villada, Gosse Bouma, Gábor Ugray, Tamás Bíró, Gábor Pohl, John Nerbonne: A New Approach to the Corpus-based Statistical Investigation of Hungarian Multi-word Lexemes , in: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2004), May 26-28, 2004, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 1677-1680.

• Weak Interactions: Yiddish influence in Hungarian, Esperanto and Modern Hebrew, in: On the Boundaries of Phonology and Phonetics, a Festschrift presented to Tjeerd de Graaf, by D. Gilbers et al. (eds.), University of Groningen, 2004, pp. 123-145.

• Optimalitáselmélet és véges állapotú módszerek [Optimality Theory and Finite State Techniques], handout [in Hungarian] of the presentation held at the PhD-school in Theoretical Linguistics, Eötvös University, Budapest, October 14, 2003.

• Computational Aspects of Metrical Stress in OT, presentation held at TABU-dag 2003. Abstract, slides (main file, additional 1, additional 2).

• Quadratic Alignment Constraints and Finite State Optimality Theory, in: Proceedings of the Workshop on Finite-State Methods in Natural Language Processing (FSMNLP), held in the framework of the 10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2003 (April 12-17, 2003), Budapest, Hungary, pp. 119-126. Original version (published in the proceedings), a slightly modified version submitted to ROA Rutgers Optimality Archive (its ROA number is 600-0503), and the slides of the presentation (with slight modifications). Remark of J. Eisner to my paper on OT-list.

• Learning Dutch Stress in Optimality Theory using FSA Tools, presentation at CLIN 2002, (November 2002), abstract, a non published written version of it. (My picture taken there.)

• The first-year report of my PhD (November 2002, not published).

• Schwa and Roots: A Non-concatenative Lexical Morpho-phonology, in collaboration with Anna Hamp, in: Selected Papers of Docsymp 6, the Graduate Students' Sixth Linguistics Symposium, April 28, 2001, Budapest. [appeared in 2002], pp. 9-22.

• Some Statistical Games with Written Texts, Doximp 3, Graduate Students' Third Linguistics Symposium, June 5, 1998, Budapest. Abstract, and hand out.


 
 
 

Others:

• (in press) 'Optimal religion. Optimality Theory accounts for ritual dynamics'. In: Changing minds. Religion and cognition through the ages, ed. I. Czachesz & T. Biró. Peeters Publishers.

• Liturgical linguistics: Towards the syntax of communicating with the super-human agent in Judaism. Forthcoming (May 2010). In: Armin W. Geertz (ed.). Origins of Religion, Cognition and Culture. Equinox. Link to publisher.

• Ki nyomtathatja a Talmudot? (Su"T Hatam Szofer, VI: Likkutim, no. 57 fordítása és magyarázata) [Who may print the Talmud? Translation and explanation of Sheelot u-Teshuvot Hatam Sofer, VI: Likkutim, no. 57], in: Turán Tamás (szerk.): Moses Schreiber (a Hatam Szofer) négy responsuma [Four Responsa of R. Moses Schreiber (the Hatam Sofer)], MTA Judaisztikai Kutatóközpont Értesítő, 17, MTA Judaisztikai Kutatóközpont, Budapest, 2006.

• Bíró Tamás és Bányai Viktória: Az északnyugati sémi nyelvek – ugariti, héber, arámi [Northern-Semitic Languages and Writing Systems]. In: Zólyomi Gábor (szerk.): Ókori és keleti nyelvek és írások. Egyetemi jegyzet. Bölcsészkonzorcium. 2006.

• Optimal Religion: An Optimality Theoretical model for (Jewish) rituals, presentation at the International Workshop on Religion and Cognition, Groningen, April 6-7, 2006.

• A seprű: Héber-arámi kétnyelvűség a zsidó közösségekben [The Broom: Hebrew-Aramaic bilingualism in Jewish communities], presentation at the workshop Kétnyelvűség az ókorban [Bilingualism in Antiquity] held at the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, March 27, 2006.

• Liturgical Linguistics: The syntax of communicating with the super-human agent in Judaism, paper presented at the conference on Origins of Religion, Cognition and Culture, Aarhus, January 5, 2005. Formats: ppt or pdf.

• Mena hané milé? [Honnan tudjuk ezeket a szavakat?]: Spekuláció, empíria, szöveg [Mena hanei milei? [Where do we know these words from?]: Speculation, Observation, Text], presentation held at the conference commemorating the 15th anniversary of the foundation of the major in Judaic studies, Eötvös University, Budapest, October 16, 2003.

• "A csillagászat és a geometria csupán köretei a bölcsességnek"? Rabbik és a világi tudományok. ["Astronomy and Geometry are Only the Periphery of Wisdom"? Rabbis and secular sciences] to be appear in the proceedings of the conference "Rabbik és Rebék" held in April 2001. Appeared in: Széfer Jószéf, Prof. dr. Schweitzer József tiszteletére [Essays in Honor of Joseph Schweitzer], ed.: József Zsengellér, Open Art, Budapest, 2002, pp. 201-218. Download manuscript (PDF).

• A Renaissance Astrological Manuscript from the Kaufmann Collection, in: David Kaufmann Memorial Volume, Papers presented at the David Kaufmann Memorial Conference, November 29, 1999, Budapest, Oriental Collection, Library of the Hungarian Academy of Science, Éva Apor (ed.), Oriental Studies 10, Budapest, 2002, pp. 41-59 (Rambi record).

• Shaar ha-Shamayim by Isaac Israeli, M.A.-thesis, Rothberg International School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (2001).

• Application of Vector Space Techniques to DNA, in: Fractals 6, no. 3, pp. 205-210 (1998), in collaboration with A. Czirók, T. Vicsek and Á. Major. (download)

• Physics and Linguistics - What is common?, to be appear in the proceedings of the International Conference of Physics Students, Vienna, 1997.


 
 
 

Diploma theses in Hungarian:

• Csillagászati vonatkozású halákhikus kérdések [Halakhic Questions related to Astronomy], diploma thesis, Eötvös Loránd University of Science, Budapest, Hungary (2003).

• Írott szövegek statisztikus tulajdonságainak modellezése matematikai eszközökkel [Mathematical Modeling of Written Texts' Statistical Properties], diploma thesis, Eötvös Loránd University of Science, Budapest, Hungary (2000).

• DNS szekvenciák elemzése szövegelemzési módszerekkel [Analysis of DNA sequences using text analysis methods], diploma thesis, Eötvös Loránd University of Science, Budapest, Hungary (1998).

Others:

• Mikola-verseny 1989-90
• Jelsorozatok elemzése statisztikai módszerekkel [Analysis of signal sequences, using statistical methods], paper presented at TDK. Text of the paper and figures.

Selected citations of my publications.