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Tamás Biró

 
 

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2020„…milyen jo dolog magyar zsidonak lenni, de ez mar egy masik vita temaja…” Kutatási lehetőségek egy késő 20. századi digitális korpuszban.
Conference talk given at: KDFI A magyar internet történetei, February 13-14, 2020, BME, Budapest. Slides. Abstract [in Hungarian].
2019Számít-e a kronológia? Néhány gondolat a bibliai héber és a modern héber tanításának sorrendjéről.
Invited talk given at: Idegennyelv-oktatás napjainkban, November 12, 2019, OR-ZSE Budapest. Slides. Abstract [in Hungarian].
2019„…milyen jo dolog magyar zsidonak lenni, de ez mar egy masik vita temaja…” Lojalitáshierarchiák egy késő 20. századi digitális korpuszban.
Conference talk given at: Zsidó lojalitáshierarchiák dinamikája a modernkori Közép-Európában, November 6-7, 2019, Szeged. Slides. Abstract [in Hungarian].
2019PeregrXML: Building and annotating a 17th century corpus of Medieval Christian Hebrew.
Poster presented at: DH_Budapest_2019 Conference, September 25-27, 2019, Budapest. Poster. Abstract.
2019Biblical Hebrew Who will Understand?.
Conference talk given at: 3rd Budapest Linguistics Conference (BLINC 3), June 8, 2019, ELTE, Budapest. Slides. Abstract.
2019A nyelv, ami elválaszt, és a nyelv, ami összeköt: Zsidó közösségek és zsidó nyelvek.
Workshop talk given at: Zsidó közösségek 2019 konferencia, April 28, 2019, OR-ZSE, Budapest. See also https://or-zse.hu/zsido-kozossegek-2019-cimmel-rendeztek-szakmai-konferenciat-az-or-zse-n/. Slides.
2018Zsidók, tudomány és hálózatok? Bevezető gondolatok és alapfogalmak.
Workshop talk given at: Hálózatkutatás miniworkshop [Mini workshop on network science], December 19, 2018, OR-ZSE. Slides.
2018Modes of religiosity and the history of Jewish rituals.
Conference talk given at: Conference on Interpreting Rituals: Historiographical Perspectives and Pluralistic Contexts, October 29-31, 2018, Leiden. Slides. Abstract.
2018Early Modern Christian Hebrew: A hitherto overlooked variety of Medieval Hebrew.
Conference talk given at: XIth Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS 2018), July 19, 2018, Kraków. Slides. Abstract.
2018A “postcolonial” reading of Neolog Judaism in Hungary.
Conference talk given at: XIth Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS 2018), July 16, 2018, Kraków. Slides. Abstract.
2018“Whoever did not see the Rejoicing of the House of Drawing never saw rejoicing in his lifetime” (mSukkah 5:1): The role of high-arousal memories in post-destruction Judaism..
Workshop talk given at: Workshop “Personal and Social Emotions in Rabbinic Literature: Methods and Approaches”, May 25, 2018, Groningen, Netherlands. Slides.
2018Optimality Theoretical morphology for hybrid grammars: Implementing Burzio’s Output-Output Faithfulness.
Conference talk given at: 18th International Morphology Meeting (IMM18), May 13, 2018, Budapest. Slides. Abstract.
2018What can we learn from implementing Optimality Theory?.
Workshop talk given at: PTA workshop on ‘The importance of formalization in phonology’ at GLOW 41, April 14, 2018, Budapest. Slides. Abstract.
2018From Harmonic Grammar to Optimality Theory: Production and maturation in q-HG.
Poster presented at: Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW 41), April 12, 2018, Budapest. Poster. Abstract.
2018Magyar peregrinusok héber köszöntőversei a 17. században
[Hebrew Carmina Gratulatoria by Hungarian Peregrines in the 17th Century].
Poster presented at: Hungarian Hebrew Studies Conference, February 8, 2018, ELTE, Budapest. Poster. Joint work with Andrea Götz, Szandra Juhász, Kornélia Koltai and József Zsengellér. Abstract [in Hungarian].
2017From Harmonic Grammar to Optimality Theory: The strict domination limit.
Workshop talk given at: ‘K + K = 120’ Workshop. Dedicated to László Kálmán and András Kornai on the occasion of their 60th birthdays. , December 18, 2017, Research Institute for Linguistics, HAS, Budapest. Slides. Related paper.
2017Meddig tart egy nyelv? Migráció és többnyelvűség a zsidó közösségekben.
[How far/how long does a language last? Migration and multilingualism in Jewish communities.].
Conference talk given at: Össznyelvész Conference, November 10, 2017, ELTE, Budapest. Slides. Abstract [in Hungarian].
2017From neural networks to religious networks:
An ICS (integrated connectionist/symbolic) architecture for religion.
Workshop talk given at: Fourth International Symposium on Network Theory, Cognitive Science, and Historiography, October 1–6, 2017, Orthes, Crete, Greece. Slides.
2017AVM: Data Structures for the Cognitive Science of Religion.
Poster presented at: Computational Foundations of Religious Cognition, workshop hosted by the IACSR, July 26, 2017, London. See also http://www.cognitivesciencesociety.org/conference/cogsci2017/. Abstract. Poster. Workshop at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
2017Harmonic Grammar growing into Optimality Theory: Maturation as the strict domination limit.
Conference talk given at: 2nd Budapest Linguistics Conference, June 2, 2017, ELTE, Budapest. Abstract. Slides.
2017Optimalitáselmélet és analógia: tényleg kiengesztelhetetlen ellentét?
[Optimality Theory and analogy: An irreconcilable conflict?].
Invited talk given at: KAFA, May 18, 2017, Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. Abstract. Slides.
2017Narratívák a hitközségekről [Narratives about the status quo ante congregations].
Conference talk given at: The Schweitzer Lectures (by the Hungarian Hebrew Studies Society), February 14, 2017, KRE, Budapest. Abstract. Slides.
2016Kulturálisan posztulált állapotok: Rituális tisztátalanság a zsidó vallásban és a kognitív vallástudományban [Culturally postulated states: Ritual impurity in Judaism and in the cognitive science of religion].
Workshop talk given at: Purum et immundum: vallási tisztaság és tisztátalanság [ritual purity and impurity], October 14, 2016, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest. Abstract. Slides.
2016Agent-based modeling: Agents with a complex cognitive architecture (a tutorial).
Workshop talk given at: Network Theory and Computer Modeling in the Study of Religion, September 1, 2016, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest. Slides.
2016Mathematical modeling: A tutorial.
Workshop talk given at: Network Theory and Computer Modeling in the Study of Religion, August 31, 2016, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest. Slides.
2016Non-phonological factors of phonological variation: A large scale wug-experiment for Hungarian vowel harmony.
Conference talk given at: Thirteenth Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP), January 16, 2016, Budapest. Abstract. Slides. Joint work with Mihály Füredi.
2016Backing vacillating stems: Hungarian vowel harmony in fast speech.
Workshop talk given at: Thirteenth Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP), January 13, 2016, Budapest. Abstract. Slides. Joint work with Eszter Hetényi.
2015„Határozatlanság” vagy „aranyközépút”? Módszertani megjegyzések a neológia meghatározásához.
Workshop talk given at: A megújulás hagyománya – Zsidó és más monoteista identitásmintázatok kétszáz éve, December 7, 2015, Magyar Zsidó Múzeum és Levéltár, Budapest. See also https://www.facebook.com/events/1484396751867813/. Abstract. Slides.
2015Számítsuk ki a nyelvet! Matematika, fizika és algoritmusok a nyelvben [Let’s compute language! Mathematics, physics and algorithms in language].
Invited talk given at: KöMaL Ifjúsági Ankét [Meeting of the Mathematical and Physical Journal for Secondary Schools], October 28, 2015, Budapest. Slides.
2015A zsidóság bibliaolvasási gyakorlatáról [On Bible reading in Judaism].
Conference talk given at: A Bibliaolvasás gyakorlata ma [Bible reading practices today], October 23, 2015, Károli Gáspár Reformed University (KRE), Budapest. See also http://evangelikus.hu/bibliaolvasas-liturgikus-olvasatokban.
2015Ami megjelenik, és ami nem jelenik meg a beszédben: Performanciahibák, fedett információ, nyelvi változás (toborzás) [What appears and what does not appear in speech: Performance errors, covered information and language change].
Invited talk given at: KAFA (series of the Experimental and Analogy-Based Phonology and Morphology Research Group), October 8, 2015, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. See also http://www.nytud.hu/depts/tlp/kafa.html. Abstract. Slides.
2015(Not) only the circumcised may circumcise: Theological correctness and intuitive religiosity in Judaism.
Conference talk given at: XXI IAHR World Congress (International Association for the History of Religions), August 24, 2015, Erfurt, Germany. Abstract. Slides.
2015Can you learn hidden information?.
Conference talk given at: BLINC: Budapest Linguistics Conference, June 18, 2015, ELTE, Budapest. See also http://seas3.elte.hu/blinc/. Abstract. Slides.
2015Az áldozat fogalma kognitív vallástudományi megközelítésben
[The concept of the ‘sacrifice’ from a cognitive science of religion perspective].
Conference talk given at: „Áldozat” szümposzion [Symposion on ‘Sacrifice’], May 1, 2015, Wesley János Lelkészképző Főiskola, Budapest, Hungary. See also http://www.wesley.hu/cikk/aldozat-szumposzion. Abstract. Download published article.
2014Maturation as changing the base of exponential HG? Consonant clusters (and pronoun resolution).
Workshop talk given at: RUMMIT, April 26, 2014, MIT. Slides.
Joint work with Klaas Seinhorst (University of Amsterdam). NB: RUMMIT ==> PhoNE / 2014.
2013Heuristic Production, Heuristic Learning: Boltzmann distribution for strict domination.
Workshop talk given at: NECPhon 2013, the 7th Northeast Computational Phonology Meeting, October 26, 2013, MIT. Slides.
2013Optimal Food: Formal cognitive models for human culture.
Conference talk given at: 1st International Conference on Cognitive Futures of the Humanities, April 4-6, 2013, Bangor, UK. Abstract. Accepted, but withdrawn paper.
2013Simulating the acquisition of Dutch word-initial consonant clusters with q-HG.
Conference talk given at: 23rd Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN 2013), January 18, 2013, Enschede, Netherlands. Abstract. Slides. Slides as pdf.
NB: Joint paper with Klaas Seinhorst.
2013Hogyan tanuljunk kevés információból is? A RIP-algoritmus továbbfejlesztett változatai
[How to learn from few information? Improvements of the RIP algorithm].
Conference talk given at: IX. Magyar Számítógépes Nyelvészeti Konferencia [9th Hungarian Conference in Computational Linguistics], January 7-8, 2013, Szeged, Hungary. Abstract. Download article and poster.
2012Re-rethinking Religion: Blessing rituals (?) in the Pentateuch and in Judaism.
Conference talk given at: International meeting of SBL, July 25, 2012, Amsterdam. Abstract. Slides. (Program unit 'Mind, Society and Tradition').
2012May I circumcise myself? On rituals and "halakhically incorrect" cognition in midrashic exegesis.
Conference talk given at: International meeting of SBL, July 23, 2012, Amsterdam. Abstract. Slides. (Program unit 'Palestine and Babylon: Two Jewish Late Antique Cultures and Their Interrelation').
2012Being stressed by stress: competence, performance and learning of metrical stress in Optimality Theory.
Invited talk given at: a departement seminar, March 13, 2012, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva. Abstract. Slides.
2011Errors in language production, language learning and language change: Some computational experiments with Optimality Theory.
Invited talk given at: OAP (Oud Amsterdams Peil), December 16, 2011, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Slides.
2011Ki metélte körül Ábrahámot? Kognitív megközelítések a Biblia-magyarázatban
[Who circumcised Abraham? Cognitive approaches in Bible exegesis].
Conference talk given at: Leopold Löw memorial conference, November 24, 2011, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary. Abstract. Slides.
2011Religious mental structures: Counterintuitiveness represented in Optimality Theory.
Poster presented at: New Developments in the Cognitive Science of Religion, the yearly meeting of IACSR, as a workshop at CogSci 2011, July 20, 2011, Boston, USA. See also http://cognitivesciencesociety.org/uploads/2011-w2.pdf. Abstract. Poster. Handout.
2011Linguistics as a Model for the Cognitive Approaches in Biblical Studies.
Conference talk given at: International meeting of SBL, July 4-8, 2011, London, UK. Abstract. Slides. (Download presentation as pdf. Download the handout.).
2011Language Evolution and SA-OT: The case of sentential negation.
Conference talk given at: Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN) 21, February 11, 2011, University College Ghent, Belgium. Abstract. Slides.
NB: Joint paper with Alessandro Lopopolo.
2010Az imperialista Optimalitáselmélet? [The Imperialist Optimality Theory?].
Conference talk given at: Conference at the occasion of the 20th anniversary of establishing the Theoretical Linguistics Program at the ELTE university, November 25-27, 2010, Budapest, Hungary. Abstract. Slides.
2010Értelek, értelek... de mirol beszélsz?? A keresztény-zsidó párbeszéd a kognitív vallástudomány perspektívájában.
Conference talk given at: Új perspektívák és kihívások a zsidó-keresztény dialógusban a 21. század elején, October 28-29, 2010, Piliscsaba/Budapest. Abstract. Slides.
2010When Judaism became boring: The McCauley-Lawson model applied to Judaism.
Invited talk given at: Workshop on 'Judaism and Emotion', October 7, 2010, University of Bern, Switzerland. Abstract. Slides.
2010OTKit: Tools, Tricks and Techniques for Optimality Theory.
Poster presented at: 31st TABU Dag, June 3-4, 2010, Groningen, Netherlands. See also http://www.tabudag.nl. Abstract. Poster.
2010Who Circumcised Abraham? – Ritual Agency in Jewish Texts.
Conference talk given at: First International Workshop on the Cognitive Study of Religious Texts, March 3-4, 2010, Groningen, Netherlands. See also http://www.religionandcognition.com/crc/index.php?content=Workshop2010. Slides. Try out yourself the computer simulations mentioned in the talk.
2010From Performance Errors to Optimal Competence: Learnability of OT and HG with Simulated Annealing.
Poster presented at: Workshop on Computational Modelling of Sound Pattern Acquisition, February 13-14, 2010, Edmonton, Canada. See also http://www.ualberta.ca/~kirchner/CMSPA.htm. Abstract. Poster. Download handout.
2010Acquiring Competence from Performance Data: Online learnability of OT and HG with simulated annealing.
Conference talk given at: Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN) 20, February 5, 2010, Utrecht, Netherlands. See also http://www.clin.nl/20/. Abstract. Slides.
2010A nyelvi kompetencia és a nyelvi performancia határán: Az Optimalitáselmélet implementációja szimulált hokezeléssel [On the border of linguistic competence and linguistic performance: Implementing Optimality Theory with simulated annealing].
Conference talk given at: XVIII. MAKOG: Interfészek a megismeréstudományban [18th Hungarian Cognitive Conference: Interfaces in the Cognitive Sciences], January 25-26, 2010, Budapest, Hungary. Abstract. Slides. Website of the conference, and its program.
2009HarNóMia vagy OTpimalitás? Grammatikus, szabálytalan és gyorsbeszédi alakok OT-ben és HG-ban [HarNoMy or OTpimality? Grammatical, irregular and fast speech forms in OT and in HG].
Poster presented at: Beszédkutatás 2009, October 16-17, 2009, Budapest, Hungary. Abstract. Poster.
2009Learning Competence from Performance Data: Learnability and symbolic Simulated Annealing for OT and HG.
Poster presented at: KNAW Academy Colloquium on Language Acquisition and Optimality Theory, July 2-3, 2009, Amsterdam. Abstract. Poster.
2009Finding the Right Words – All you wanted to know about Optimality Theory, Harmony Grammar and Simulated Annealing, but were afraid to ask....
Invited talk given at: Sound Circle, May 14, 2009, Amsterdam. Abstract. Slides.
2009Performance of Learning & Learning from Performance.
Conference talk given at: Workshop on Learning Meets Acquisition, DGfS meeting, March 4, 2009, Osnabrück, Germany. See also http://www.birot.hu/events/lma/. Abstract. Slides.
2009Elephants and Optimality Again. SA-OT accounts for pronoun resolution in child language.
Conference talk given at: CLIN 19, January 22, 2009, University of Groningen, Netherlands. See also http://www.let.rug.nl/clin/. Abstract. Slides. Handout and picture. Published in Plank et al. (eds.) Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2009 LOT Occasional Series 14.
2008OTpimality? Interpreting performance errors in SA-OT.
Workshop talk given at: Third Workshop on Optimality Theory and Interpretation, November 7, 2008, University of Groningen. Abstract. Slides. Program of the workshop.
2008Efficient communication with a ponderous brain: Performance errors in Optimality Theory.
Invited talk given at: Interplay mini-workshop on Optimal Communication, January 22, 2008, Radboud University Nijmegen. See also http://www.ru.nl/pionier/projects/interplay/. Slides.
2007Finding the Right Words.
Poster presented at: Taalgala, November 16, 2007, Utrecht, Netherlands. Presentation of my thesis, as nominated for the Anéla-AVT dissertation price. Two versions of the poster: for linguists and for computational linguists.
2007Is Judaism Boring?.
Conference talk given at: "Mind, Society, and Tradition", SBL, July 24, 2007, Vienna, Austria. See also http://www.sbl-site.org/Meetings/abstract.aspx?MeetingId=11&id=6741. Abstract. Slides.
2007Where is the counterintuitive agent in Judaism?.
Participant's presentation at the Summer University on Culture and Cognition, July 6, 2007, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. See also http://www.sun.ceu.hu/3Courses/courses.php. Slides.
2007The Benefits of Errors: Learning an OT Grammar with a Structured Candidate Set.
Conference talk given at: Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Acquisition, ACL, June 29, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic. See also http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/acl2007/workshops/index.php/ws15/. Abstract. Slides. Download article from ACL Anthology..
2007On the Importance of Errors: Competence and Performance in Optimality Theory.
Conference talk given at: Tabu Day 2007, June 8, 2007, Groningen, Netherlands. See also http://www.rug.nl/let/onderzoek/onderzoekinstituten/clcg/events/tabudag/index. Abstract. Slides.
2007Is Judaism Boring? The Role of Symbols in "Imagistic" Jewish Movements.
Conference talk given at: Symbolization in Religion, Cognition and Culture, June 1, 2007, Aarhus, Denmark. See also http://www.teo.au.dk/forskning/aktuelt/religion/symbolization/. Abstract. Slides. Uploaded to ARC..
2007Finding the Right Words -- Implementing Optimality Theory with Simulated Annealing.
Invited talk given at: DIP colloquium, ILLC, March 2, 2007, Amsterdam, Netherlands. See also http://www.illc.uva.nl/dip/. Abstract. Slides. Abstract on DIP website.
2007Learning an OT grammar with a structured candidate set.
Invited talk given at: Linguistic Colloquium, January 10, 2007, Bielefeld, Germany. Abstract. Slides.
2006Simulated Annealing for Optimality Theory: A performance model for phonology.
Conference talk given at: Workshop on Computing and Phonology, December 8, 2006, Groningen, Netherlands. See also http://www.let.rug.nl/~birot/comp-phonology.php. Abstract. Slides.
2006Optimal Religion: An Optimality Theoretical model for (Jewish) rituals.
Conference talk given at: International Workshop on Religion and Cognition, April 6-7, 2006, Groningen, Netherlands. See also http://www.religionandcognition.com/crc/index.php?content=Workshop2006. Slides.
2006A seprű: Héber-arámi kétnyelvűség a zsidó közösségekben [The Broom: Hebrew-Aramaic bilingualism in Jewish communities].
Conference talk given at: Kétnyelvűség az ókorban [Workshop on Bilingualism in Antiquity], March 27, 2006, Research Institute for Linguistics, Budapest, Hungary. See also http://www.nytud.hu/ketnyelvuseg/index.html. Slides.
2006Tamás Bíró and Judit Gervain: L' Acantatrice Chauve: Loser candidates in SA-OT and speech rate.
Conference talk given at: Third Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP3), January 17, 2006, Budapest, Hungary. See also http://nytud.hu/ocp3/. Slides.
2006Liturgical linguistics: The syntax of communicating with the super-human agent in Judaism.
Conference talk given at: Conference on Origins of Religion, Cognition and Culture, January 5, 2006, Aarhus, Denmark. See also http://www.teo.au.dk/forskning/aktuelt/religion/conf-prog. Slides. Handout.
2005A sz.ot.ag -- Optimalitáselmélet szimulált hőkezeléssel [The s.yll.able -- Optimality Theory with Simulated Annealing].
Conference talk given at: Third Hungarian Conference on Computational Linguistics (MSZNY 2005), December 8, 2005, Szeged, Hungary. See also http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/projectdirs/mszny2005. Slides. NB: published in the proceedings III. Magyar Számítógépes Nyelvészeti Konferencia, pp. 29-40.
2005Bolyongás a jelöltek halmazán: Optimalitáselmélet szimulált hőkezeléssel [Roaming on the Candidate Set: Optimality Theory with Simulated Annealing].
Conference talk given at: 9th Conference of PhD Students in Linguistics in Hungary [Nyelvészeti Doktoranduszok 9. Országos Konferenciája], November 18, 2005, Szeged, Hungary. See also http://www.arts.u-szeged.hu/nydi/lingdok9/absztraktok.html. Slides. Abstract in Hungarian.
2005Squeezing the Infinite into the Finite: Handling the OT Candidate Set with Finite State Technology.
Workshop talk given at: Workshop on Finite-State Methods in Natural Language Processing (FSMNLP 2005), September 1, 2005, Helsinki. See also http://books.google.nl/books?hl=en&lr=&id=0ECwpttEkAgC&oi=fnd&pg=PA21&ots=OI3wTVUpws&sig=TpyQHqLBy5oJYikP4avnTgChC-E. Published as 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.
2005How to Define Simulated Annealing for OT?.
Conference talk given at: 10th Conference on Formal Grammar (FG) and the 9th Meeting on Mathematics of Language (MoL), August 5-7, 2005, Edinburgh, UK. See also http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/FG/2005/biro.pdf.
2005Variations in Optimality Theory: Simulated Annealing and other methods.
Conference talk given at: TABU-day, June 3, 2005, Groningen, Netherlands. Abstract. Slides. With Dicky Gilbers and Maartje Schreuder.
2004When the Hothead Speaks: Simulated Annealing Optimality Theory for modeling fast speech phenomena.
Conference talk given at: CLIN (Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands), December 17, 2004, Leiden. See also http://www.birot.hu/publications/BiroT-CLINproc2004.pdf.
Published 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.
2004A dictionary-based approach to identification of multi-word terms exploiting grammatical restrictions.
Conference talk given at: CLIN (Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands), December 17, 2004, Leiden. Joint work with B. Kis et al.
2003Methods for the Extraction of Hungarian Multi-Word Lexemes.
Conference talk given at: CLIN (Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands), December 19, 2003, Antwerp, Belgium. Joint work with Balázs Kis, Begona Villada Moirón, T. Bíró, Gosse Bouma, Gábor Pohl, Gábor Ugray and John Nerbonne.
2003Mena hané milé? [Honnan tudjuk ezeket a szavakat?]: Spekuláció, empíria, szöveg [Mena hanei milei? [Where do we know these words from?]: Speculation, Observation, Text].
Conference talk given at: Hebraist day (hebraista nap): conference commemorating the 15th anniversary of the foundation of the major in Judaic studies, October 16, 2003, Eötvös University, Budapest.
2003Optimalitáselmélet és véges állapotú módszerek [Optimality Theory and Finite State Techniques].
Invited talk given at: PhD seminar, October 14, 2003, Institute for Linguistics and the PhD-school in Theoretical Linguistics, Eötvös University, Budapest. Handout (in Hungarian).
2003Computational Aspects of Metrical Stress in OT.
Conference talk given at: TABU Day in linguistics, June 20, 2003, Groningen University. See also http://www.birot.hu/publications/Tabu2003.pdf. Slides. Additional files: gen and woman.
2003Quadratic Alignment Constraints and Finite State Optimality Theory .
Conference talk given at: Workshop on Finite-State Methods in Natural Language Processing (FSMNLP) at the conference of the EACL (European Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics), April 12, 2003, Budapest. Slides. Download paper in the proceedings.
2002Learning Dutch Stress in OT using FSA Tools.
Conference talk given at: Groningen, the Netherlands, November 29, 2002, CLIN (Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands). See also http://www.let.rug.nl/vannoord/Clin/. A non-published written version.
2001"A csillagászat és a geometria csupán köretei a bölcsességnek"? Rabbik és a világi tudományok ["Astronomy and Geometry are Only Periphery to Wisdom"? Rabbis and secular sciences].
Conference talk given at: "Rabbik és Rebék" konferencia [Rabbis and Rebbes, on the role of the rabbinate], April 24, 2001, Budapest. Leaflet of the event, co-organized by the Maimonides Circle.
Published as: Széfer Jószéf, Prof. dr. Schweitzer József tiszteletére [Essays in Honor of Joseph Schweitzer], ed. József Zsengellér, Open Art, Budapest, 2002, pp. 201-218.
2001Schwa and Roots: A Non-concatenative Lexical Morpho-phonology.
Conference talk given at: Docsymp, Graduate Students' Sixth Linguistics Symposium, April 28, 2001, Eötvös University, Budapest. In collaboration with Anna Hamp.
1999A Renaissance Astrological Manuscript from the Kaufmann Collection.
Conference talk given at: International memorial conference on the 100th anniversary of David Kaufmann's death, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, November 29, 1999, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest.
Published 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..
1998Some Statistical Games with Written Texts.
Conference talk given at: Doximp, Graduate Students' Third Linguistics Symposium, June 5, 1998, Budapest. See also http://www.birot.hu/publications/doximp98.pdf. Slides.
1997Jelsorozatok elemzése statisztikai módszerekkel
[Analysis of signal sequences, using statistical methods].
Conference talk given at: Conference of the Scientific Student Circle (TDK) in physics, Eötvös University, November 27, 1997, Budapest. Abstract. Slides. Abstract on the event website.
1997Physics and Linguistics – What is common?.
Conference talk given at: International Conference of Physics Students (ICPS), August, 1997, Vienna. See also http://www.iaps.info/. Slides.

List of publications, including further information on earlier talks.