BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//SCIO Studievereniging - ECPv6.0.13.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:SCIO Studievereniging X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://sciostudievereniging.nl X-WR-CALDESC:Evenementen voor SCIO Studievereniging REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230510T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230510T233000 DTSTAMP:20260419T034100 CREATED:20230228T154914Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230508T094954Z UID:1790-1683748800-1683761400@sciostudievereniging.nl SUMMARY:Borrel đŸ» DESCRIPTION:Lekker borrelon bij CafĂ© de Gaeper! URL:https://sciostudievereniging.nl/event/borrel-%f0%9f%8d%bb-2/ LOCATION:CafĂ© de Gaeper\, Staalstraat 4\, Amsterdam\, Nederland CATEGORIES:SCIO Activiteiten END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230512T161500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230512T173000 DTSTAMP:20260419T034100 CREATED:20230207T115113Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230421T110643Z UID:1482-1683908100-1683912600@sciostudievereniging.nl SUMMARY:ACLC Seminar | Markus Steinbach: Is there anything special about special signs? A cross-modal study of a special class of parts of speech in spoken and sign languages DESCRIPTION:Organized by the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication! (ACLC) \n\nSpeaker: Markus Steinbach\nLocation: P.C. Hoofthuis\nRoom: 5.59\nTitle: Is there anything special about special signs? A cross-modal study of a special class of parts of speech in spoken and sign languages\nAbstract: A special class of lexical items frequently used in many different signs languages are so-called special signs\, a particularly interesting part of speech that has not yet received much attention in linguistic research (Brennan 1992\, Johnston & Schembri 1999\, Johnston & Ferrara 2012\, Konrad 2011\, 2014\, SchĂŒtte 2014). Special signs\, which are sometimes also called multi-channel signs\, ‘GebĂ€rdenwendungen’\, ‘(sign language) idioms’\, or idiomatic signs\, form a relatively small open class of conventionalized expressions (approx. 200 signs in German Sign Language\, DGS) with unique formal properties different from lexical signs and gestural demonstrations. In addition\, the meaning of special signs is flexible and highly context dependent and often translated into spoken languages with the help of complex idiomatic expressions. Based on examples taken from the DGS corpus\, we discuss modality-independent and modality-dependent properties of special signs and argue that both their flexible ‘idiomatic’ meaning and their special formal properties show interesting similarities with ideophones in spoken languages (Dingemanse 2012\, 2019; Dingemanse & Akita 2019; Barnes et al. 2022). We argue that the defining properties of ideophones discussed in the literature also apply (to a certain degree) to special signs in DGS. One result of this cross-modal comparison is that sign languages just like many spoken languages seem to have a special open class of marked lexical expressions that depict sensory imagery. Unlike ideophones in spoken languages\, the depiction with special signs in sign languages is not auditory but visual. And unlike other iconic lexical expressions in sign languages\, special signs can be analyzed as ‘idiomatic’ depictive context-dependent expressions with an expressive meaning component. URL:https://sciostudievereniging.nl/event/aclc-seminar-markus-steinbach-tba/ LOCATION:P.C. Hoofthuis\, Spuistraat 134\, Amsterdam\, Nederland CATEGORIES:Activiteiten Buiten SCIO END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230515T133000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230515T160000 DTSTAMP:20260419T034100 CREATED:20230508T095456Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230508T095456Z UID:1855-1684157400-1684166400@sciostudievereniging.nl SUMMARY:Picknick met Jamsessie! đŸŽ”đŸ„Ș DESCRIPTION:Op maandag 15 mei houden we potluck picknick met een jamsessie\, dus breng je instrumenten/zangkunsten mee! Meer informatie volgt nog. đŸŽ” URL:https://sciostudievereniging.nl/event/picknick-met-jamsessie-%f0%9f%8e%b5%f0%9f%a5%aa/ CATEGORIES:SCIO Activiteiten END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230523T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230523T160000 DTSTAMP:20260419T034100 CREATED:20230228T155255Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230508T095729Z UID:1792-1684843200-1684857600@sciostudievereniging.nl SUMMARY:SCIO in de Biblio 📚 DESCRIPTION:Heb je ook een rustige plek nodig om te leren? Kom in de middag van donderdag 23 maart langs bij [PCH-lokaal volgt nog] om je goed voor te bereiden op de tentamens. 📚 \nKom naast het leren ook genieten van pannenkoeken. đŸ„ž URL:https://sciostudievereniging.nl/event/scio-in-de-biblio-%f0%9f%93%9a/ LOCATION:P.C. Hoofthuis\, Spuistraat 134\, Amsterdam\, Nederland CATEGORIES:SCIO Activiteiten END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230524T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230524T233000 DTSTAMP:20260419T034100 CREATED:20230508T095041Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230508T095041Z UID:1853-1684958400-1684971000@sciostudievereniging.nl SUMMARY:Borrel đŸ» DESCRIPTION:Lekker borrelon bij CafĂ© de Gaeper! URL:https://sciostudievereniging.nl/event/borrel-%f0%9f%8d%bb-3/ LOCATION:CafĂ© de Gaeper\, Staalstraat 4\, Amsterdam\, Nederland CATEGORIES:SCIO Activiteiten END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230526T161500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230526T173000 DTSTAMP:20260419T034100 CREATED:20230207T115335Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230524T063953Z UID:1748-1685117700-1685122200@sciostudievereniging.nl SUMMARY:ACLC Seminar | Eva van Lier: Alternation in argument coding across languages: lexical and other factors DESCRIPTION:Organized by the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication! (ACLC) \n\nSpeaker: Eva van Lier\nLocation: P.C. Hoofthuis\nRoom: 3.01\nTitle: Alternation in argument coding across languages: lexical and other factors\nAbstract: In this talk\, we give an overview of the research carried out so far in our Vidi project ‘Exceptions rule! Lexical restrictions on grammatical structure’. This project is about alternations\, that is\, situations in language where more than one morpho-syntactic construction can be used to express an event. Focusing on alternations in argument marking (case and agreement)\, we study how the choice between constructions is influenced by lexical and other factors\, the latter including semantic factors (like animacy) and pragmatic factors (like topicality). We will discuss cross-linguistic data\, as well as case studies of alternations in three specific languages: Kamang (Timor-Alor-Pantar)\, Chechen (Nakh-Daghestanian)\, and Persian (Indo-Iranian). These studies involve a mix of typological\, corpus-based and experimental methods. URL:https://sciostudievereniging.nl/event/aclc-seminar-katherine-walker-eva-van-lier-tba/ LOCATION:P.C. Hoofthuis\, Spuistraat 134\, Amsterdam\, Nederland CATEGORIES:Activiteiten Buiten SCIO END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230602T161500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230602T173000 DTSTAMP:20260419T034100 CREATED:20230524T065608Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230524T065608Z UID:1878-1685722500-1685727000@sciostudievereniging.nl SUMMARY:ACLC Seminar | Tineke Snijders: Neural tracking of speech in infants and their later language development DESCRIPTION:Organized by the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication! (ACLC) \n\nSpeaker: Tineke Snijders\nLocation: PC Hoofthuis\nRoom: 5.60\nTitle: Neural tracking of speech in infants and their later language development\nAbstract: Neuronal groups in the brain process information in a rhythmical way\, and can also track the speech rhythm. Using EEG\, the coherence between the speech amplitude envelope and the electrophysiological response can be identified. This rhythmical neural tracking enables forming temporal predictions about salient events in the input\, ensuring the brain is most excitable at times when the speech signal carries the most information. This helps in grouping information in analyzable units such as words and phrases\, and this facilitates speech processing. I will discuss research showing that just like in adults\, neural oscillations in the infant brain track the rhythm of speech at different frequencies. I will report results of our studies relating speech-brain coherence in infants to word segmentation and further language development\, both in typically developing infants and in infants with a family history of autism. I will argue that rhythmic neural speech tracking reflects infants’ attention to specific parts of the speech signal (e.g. stressed syllables)\, and simultaneously acts as a core mechanism for maximizing temporal attention onto those parts. URL:https://sciostudievereniging.nl/event/aclc-seminar-tineke-snijders-neural-tracking-of-speech-in-infants-and-their-later-language-development/ LOCATION:P.C. Hoofthuis\, Spuistraat 134\, Amsterdam\, Nederland CATEGORIES:Activiteiten Buiten SCIO END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230608T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230608T173000 DTSTAMP:20260419T034100 CREATED:20230606T071300Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230606T122516Z UID:1885-1686240000-1686245400@sciostudievereniging.nl SUMMARY:Lab Tour in Bushuis! 🧠 DESCRIPTION:Altijd al eens in het Spraaklab willen kijken? Kom met ons mee! Alle CLC’ers (ook niet-leden) zijn welkom. 🧠 \nGeef aan dat je meegaat in het formulier. ✍ URL:https://sciostudievereniging.nl/event/lab-tour-in-bushuis-%f0%9f%a7%a0/ LOCATION:Bushuis – Oost-Indisch Huis\, Kloveniersburgwal 48\, Amsterdam\, Nederland CATEGORIES:SCIO Activiteiten END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230609T161500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230609T173000 DTSTAMP:20260419T034100 CREATED:20230606T073232Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230606T073232Z UID:1894-1686327300-1686331800@sciostudievereniging.nl SUMMARY:ACLC Seminar | Lauren Fonteyn: Methods of semi-automatic data annotation with contextualized word embeddings DESCRIPTION:Organized by the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication! (ACLC) \n\nSpeaker: Lauren Fonteyn (Meertens Instituut)\nLocation: P.C. Hoofthuis\nRoom: 1.15\nTitle: Methods of semi-automatic data annotation with contextualized word embeddings\nAbstract: In corpus linguistics\, the collection and annotation of data commonly involve a relatively balanced combination of computer-aided and manual labour. It is still common practice\, for instance\, to first retrieve data representing a particular linguistic phenomenon from an electronic corpus (e.g. by means of a concordancer tool or query script) and subsequently manually categorize the collected examples into different groups (e.g. animate/inanimate; literal/figurative; agent/patient/instrument/
). However\, as the range of research questions that linguists aim to address by means of corpus data has expanded in complexity\, there is a growing need for larger data samples\, which is difficult to meet when we continue to approach data annotation manually. As such\, it has become an important practical challenge in corpus linguistics to determine how data annotation practices can evolve along with the needs of researchers. In this talk\, I suggest one way of approaching corpus data annotation (semi-)automatically by relying on Large Language Models (LLMs). More specifically\, I will present a number example case studies to highlight how an LLM like BERT can be employed to annotate corpus data. The presentation focusses on the BERT-based models MacBERTh (Manjavacas & Fonteyn 2022a) and GysBERT (Manjavacas & Fonteyn 2022b)\, which – unlike the vast majority of available models – have been pre-trained to process historical English and Dutch respectively (date range: 1500-1950). What makes the approach I will discuss appealing is that it is fully customizable to the researcher’s needs. Of course\, some corpora have been enriched with part-of-speech tags\, or\, more exceptionally\, syntactic parsing and semantic tagging. Yet\, not only are high-quality parsed (historical) corpora quite rare and limited in size\, the extent to pre-set tags map onto the categories a researcher is interested in may also vary. The procedure presented in my case studies\, then\, offers a means of automatically classifying morphosyntactic structures in large\, unparsed (and/or untagged) corpora following a custom annotation scheme. As such\, the procedure can help to scale up the data set for (historical) corpus studies where a small portion of the data has been manually annotated\, or to replicate a data annotation scheme adopted in prior work and apply it to new data. URL:https://sciostudievereniging.nl/event/aclc-seminar-lauren-fonteyn-methods-of-semi-automatic-data-annotation-with-contextualized-word-embeddings/ LOCATION:P.C. Hoofthuis\, Spuistraat 134\, Amsterdam\, Nederland CATEGORIES:Activiteiten Buiten SCIO END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230614T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230614T180000 DTSTAMP:20260419T034100 CREATED:20230524T070018Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230524T070018Z UID:1880-1686758400-1686765600@sciostudievereniging.nl SUMMARY:ABC Lecture | Sabine Kastner: Neural dynamics of the primate attention network DESCRIPTION:Organized by the Amsterdam Brain and Cognition! (ABC) \n\nSpeaker: Sabine Kastner\nLocation: Science Park 904\nRoom: SP C0.110\nTitle: Neural dynamics of the primate attention network\nAbstract: The selection of information from our cluttered sensory environments is one of the most fundamental cognitive operations performed by the primate brain. In the visual domain\, the selection process is thought to be mediated by a static spatial mechanism – a ‘spotlight’ that can be flexibly shifted around the visual scene. This spatial search mechanism has been associated with a large-scale network that consists of multiple nodes distributed across all major cortical lobes and includes also subcortical regions. To identify the specific functions of each network node and their functional interactions is a major goal for the field of cognitive neuroscience. In my lecture\, I will give an overview on the neural basis of this fundamental cognitive function and discuss recently discovered rhythmic properties that set up alternating attention states. URL:https://sciostudievereniging.nl/event/abc-lecture-sabine-kastner-neural-dynamics-of-the-primate-attention-network/ LOCATION:Amsterdam Science Park\, Science Park 904\, Amsterdam\, Noord-Holland\, 1098 XH\, Nederland CATEGORIES:Activiteiten Buiten SCIO END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230615T173000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230615T193000 DTSTAMP:20260419T034100 CREATED:20230606T072455Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230611T191153Z UID:1890-1686850200-1686857400@sciostudievereniging.nl SUMMARY:Laatste Loodjes BBQ â˜€ïžđŸŽ DESCRIPTION:Donderdag 15 juni willen we iedereen (ook niet-leden) uitnodigen voor de Laatste Loodjes BBQ. â˜€ïžđŸœ \nWij zorgen voor heerlijk eten (ook vegetarisch) en drinken (zowel alcoholisch als non-alcoholisch). \nNeem zelf mee: een kleedje en eventueel je favoriete drankje. \n  \nLaten we gezellig met z’n allen dit mooie jaar afsluiten! URL:https://sciostudievereniging.nl/event/laatste-loodjes-bbq-%e2%98%80%ef%b8%8f%f0%9f%8d%b4/ LOCATION:Rembrandtpark\, Postjesweg\, Amsterdam CATEGORIES:SCIO Activiteiten END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230621T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230621T170000 DTSTAMP:20260419T034100 CREATED:20230606T072751Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230606T072751Z UID:1892-1687366800-1687366800@sciostudievereniging.nl SUMMARY:Algemene Ledenvergadering + Afsluitingsborrel đŸ„‚ DESCRIPTION:Op woensdag 21 juni (17:00 uur\, PCH1.04) is de laatste ALV van het jaar. \nDirect hierna sluiten we het jaar feestelijk af met een Afsluitingsborrel (ook welkom voor niet-leden)! đŸș URL:https://sciostudievereniging.nl/event/algemene-ledenvergadering-afsluitingsborrel-%f0%9f%a5%82/ LOCATION:P.C. Hoofthuis\, Spuistraat 134\, Amsterdam\, Nederland CATEGORIES:SCIO Activiteiten END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230623T161500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230623T173000 DTSTAMP:20260419T034100 CREATED:20230207T115554Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230618T175058Z UID:1750-1687536900-1687541400@sciostudievereniging.nl SUMMARY:ACLC Seminar | Odette Scharenborg: Inclusive automatic speech recognition: Quantifying and mitigating bias in automatic speech recognisers DESCRIPTION:Organized by the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication! (ACLC) \n\nSpeaker: Odette Scharenborg\nLocation: P.C. Hoofthuis\nRoom: 1.15\nTitle: Inclusive automatic speech recognition: Quantifying and mitigating bias in automatic speech recognisers\nAbstract: Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is increasingly used\, e.g.\, in emergency response centers\, domestic voice assistants\, and search engines. Because of the paramount relevance spoken language plays in our lives\, it is critical that ASR systems are able to deal with the variability in the way people speak (e.g.\, due to speaker differences\, demographics\, different speaking styles\, and differently abled users). ASR systems promise to deliver objective interpretation of human speech. Practice and recent evidence however suggests that the state-of-the-art SotA ASRs struggle with the large variation in speech due to e.g.\, gender\, age\, speech impairment\, race\, and accents. The overarching goal in our project is to uncover bias in ASR systems to work towards proactive bias mitigation in ASR. In this talk\, I will present systematic experiments aimed at quantifying\, identifying the origin of\, and mitigating the bias of state-of-the-art ASRs on speech from different\, typically low-resource\, groups of speakers\, with a focus on bias against gender\, age\, regional accents and non-native accents. URL:https://sciostudievereniging.nl/event/aclc-seminar-odette-scharenborg-tba/ LOCATION:P.C. Hoofthuis\, Spuistraat 134\, Amsterdam\, Nederland CATEGORIES:Activiteiten Buiten SCIO END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230629T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230629T220000 DTSTAMP:20260419T034100 CREATED:20230618T173840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230618T173840Z UID:1905-1688065200-1688076000@sciostudievereniging.nl SUMMARY:Podiumavond XXL! đŸŽ€ DESCRIPTION:Het is zover. Podiumavond XXL komt dit jaar terug! Samen met studieverenigingen Helios\, Ragtime en Etcetera houden we een avond vĂłl talent! đŸŽ€đŸ„ł \nAlles is mogelijk! Wil jij laten zien wat je kan? Schrijf je dan hier in.✍ URL:https://sciostudievereniging.nl/event/podiumavond-xxl-%f0%9f%8e%a4/ LOCATION:Kapitein Zeppos\, Gebed Zonder End 5\, Amsterdam\, 1012 HS CATEGORIES:SCIO Activiteiten END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR