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List of publications
Tamás Biró
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See also a selected list of references to my publications.
Books (incl. thesis and edited book(s)):
(in press) István Czachesz and Tamás Biró (eds).
Changing Minds. Religion and Cognition Through the Ages.
Peeters: Leuven, 2011. ISBN: 978-90-429-2553-3.
Book details on the publisher's website.
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.
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.
Pre-publication drafts and submitted/accepted/in-press articles:
(Downloading most of them is password protected for copyright and other reasons.)
(in preparation) 'Linguistics as a Model for the Cognitive Approaches in Biblical Studies'.
In Language, Cognition and Biblical Studies (working title), edited by Jón Ma Ásgeirsson
and Tamás Biró. Biblical Intersections series. Gorgias Press, planned publication date: 2012.
Written version of this talk
(SBL 2011 international meeting, program unit Mind,
Society and Tradition).
Download draft: soon available (password protected).
(submitted) 'When Judaism became boring... The McCauley-Lawson model of rituals applied to Judaism'.
In Judaism and Emotion: Texts, Performance, Experience, edited by Sarah Ross, Gabriel Levy, and Soham Al-Suadi.
Peter Lang Publishing: New York, NY (hopefully 2012).
Download manuscript, author's unedited version (password protected).
(submitted) 'Towards a Robuster Interpretive Parsing: Learning from overt forms in Optimality Theory'.
Submitted to the
Journal
of Logic, Language and Information.
Download with pictures (> 16 Mb), or
without pictures (< 0.5 Mb) (password protected).
(accepted) 'Is Judaism Boring? On the lack of counterintuitive agents in Jewish rituals'.
In: István Czachesz and Risto Uro (eds.). Mind, Morality, and
Magic: Cognitives Science Approaches in Biblical Studies.
BibleWorld series. Equinox.
Download submitted version (password protected). Copyright holder:
Equinox Publishing Ltd. On the request of the publisher, please do not share the file with third parties.
Book details on the publisher's website.
Written version of this talk.
(in press) 'Optimal religion. Optimality Theory accounts for ritual dynamics'.
In: Changing Minds. Religion and Cognition Through the Ages, edited by I. Czachesz and T. Biró.
Peeters Publishers (see under 'books').
Download (password protected).
(in press) 'Liturgical linguistics: Towards the syntax of communicating with the super-human agent in Judaism'.
Forthcoming (June 2012?). In: Armin W. Geertz (ed.). Origins of Religion, Cognition and Culture.
Equinox Publishing.
Download pre-submission version (password protected). Copyright holder:
Equinox Publishing Ltd. On the request of the publisher, please do not share the file with third parties.
Book details on the publisher's website.
Volume of this conference. (2011/in press) 'Értelek, értelek... de miről beszélsz?? A keresztény-zsidó párbeszéd a
kognitív vallástudomány perspektívájából' ['I understand, I understand... But what are you
speaking about?? Christian-Jewish Dialogue from the Perspective of the Cognitive Science of Religion'].
In: Vízió és valóság: Új perspektívák és kihívások a zsidó–keresztény dialógusban a
21. század elején. A Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetemen 2010. október 28-29-én lezajlott
zsidó–keresztény konferencia előadásai.
Szerkesztette Dobos Károly Dániel és Fodor György.
Budapest : Márton Áron Kiadó, 2011. XI, 376 p. (Studia Theologica Budapestinensia). Pp. 51–71.
Volume of the conference
"New Perspectives and Challenges in the Jewish-Christian Dialogue at the Beginning of the 21st century"
at the Péter Pázmány Catholic University (October 28-29, 2010).
Edited by Károly Dániel Dobos and György Fodor.
Download pre-publication version (password protected,
in Hungarian).
Written version of this talk.
Recent articles:
Alessandro Lopopolo and T. Biró.
'Language Evolution and SA-OT: The case of sentential negation'.
Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Journal,
vol. 1 (2011), pp. 21–40. Download.
(Written version of this talk.)
'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), 383-384.
BBS website.
Download PDF. Copyright holder: Cambridge University Press.
'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.
'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' ['Northwest Semitic Languages and Writing Systems'].
In: Zólyomi Gábor (szerk.): Ókori és keleti nyelvek és írások
[Ancient and Oriental Languages and Scripts, an online textbook]. Egyetemi jegyzet. Bölcsészkonzorcium. 2006.
Older articles (usually related to a conference talk):
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.)
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The first-year report of my PhD (November 2002, not published).
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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.
"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]. Conference talk at Rabbik és Rebbék ["Rabbis and Rebbes"], held in Budapest, 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).
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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).
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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)
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Physics and
Linguistics - What is common?, to be appear in the proceedings of the
International
Conference of Physics Students, Vienna, 1997.
Older presentations:
Click here to see the more recent presentations.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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'. Talk
at TABU-dag. Groningen, June 20, 2003.
See also the
abstract and the slides
(main
file,
additional 1,
additional 2).
Some Statistical Games with Written Texts, Doximp 3, Graduate Students'
Third Linguistics Symposium, June 5, 1998, Budapest.
Abstract, and
hand out.
Diploma (MA) theses:
Shaar ha-Shamayim by Isaac Israeli, M.A.-thesis, Rothberg
International School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
(2001).
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 [Modelling Mathematically the Statistical Properties of Written Texts],
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).
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