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Tamás Biró

 
 

List of publications, including earlier talks.

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. Website of the workshop. Try out yourself the computer simulations mentioned in the talk. Slides.
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. Website of the workshop. Download handout. Abstract. Poster.
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. Website of the conference. 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. Website of the conference, and its program. Abstract. Slides.
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. A konferencia honlapja. 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. Handout and picture. Published in Plank et al. (eds.) Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2009 LOT Occasional Series 14. See also http://www.let.rug.nl/clin/. Abstract. Slides.
2008OTpimality? Interpreting performance errors in SA-OT.
Workshop talk given at: Third Workshop on Optimality Theory and Interpretation, November 7, 2008, University of Groningen. Program of the workshop. Abstract. Slides.
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/congresses/Congresses_CallForPapersDetails.aspx?MeetingId=11&VolunteerUnitId=361. 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. Download article from ACL Anthology.. See also http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/acl2007/workshops/index.php/ws15/. Abstract. Slides.
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. Uploaded to ARC.. See also http://www.teo.au.dk/forskning/aktuelt/religion/symbolization/. Abstract. Slides.
2007Finding the Right Words -- Implementing Optimality Theory with Simulated Annealing.
Invited talk given at: DIP colloquium, ILLC, March 2, 2007, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Abstract on DIP website. See also http://www.illc.uva.nl/dip/. Abstract. Slides.
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. Handout. See also http://www.teo.au.dk/forskning/aktuelt/religion/conf-prog. Slides.
2005A sz.ot.ag -- Optimalitáselmélet szimulált hőkezeléssel [The s.yll.able -- Optimality Theory with Simulated Annealing].
Conference talk given at: Third Conference on Hungarian Computational Linguistics (MSZNY 2005), December 8, 2005, Szeged, Hungary. Appeared in the proceedings: III. Magyar Számítógépes Nyelvészeti Konferencia, pp. 29-40. Pictures. See also http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/projectdirs/mszny2005. Slides.
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. Abstract in Hungarian. See also http://www.arts.u-szeged.hu/nydi/lingdok9/absztraktok.html. Slides.

List of publications, including earlier talks.