Programme
Please note the change to the previously scheduled events - Jeremy Seligman & Bob Carpenter have switched talk times and days.
Wednesday 5 May
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6:00 - 7:30 |
Early Registration & Welcome Reception |
Inspace | This reception will give early arrivals a chance to meet up with other reunion attendees and make plans for that evening. |
Thursday 6 May
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:30 - 10:30 |
Johanna Moore, Henry S Thompson & Ellen Gurman Bard |
Informatics Forum - G.07 |
Welcome & Introduction talk by Johanna Moore, Director of HCRC and A brief history of Buccleuch Place, in four parts by Henry S Thompson & Ellen Gurman Bard |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee break |
Informatics Forum | |
| 11:00 - 12:00 |
Fernando Pereira |
Informatics Forum - G.07 | Learning on the Web |
| 12:00 - 1:00 |
Lauri Karttunen |
Informatics Forum - G.07 | Sources of Lexical Inferences |
| 1:00 - 2:00 |
Lunch break |
Informatics Forum | A sandwich lunch will be provided for all reunion attendees. |
| 2:00 - 3:00 |
Barry Richards |
Informatics Forum - G.07 | How little I have learned about search and why I care. |
| 3:00 - 4:00 |
Bob Carpenter | Informatics Forum - G.07 | Whence Linguistic Data? Inferring Ground Truth along with Annotator Accuracy, Bias and Variability |
| 4:00 - 4:30 |
Coffee break |
Informatics Forum | |
| 4:30 - 5:30 |
Marc Moens |
Informatics Forum - G.07 | This time it's personal |
| 7:30 - 11:30 |
Gala Dinner |
The Hub |
The gala dinner will allow everyone to sit down together for a delicious meal and a chance to relax and socialise with former colleagues and classmates. |
| Dinner speaker - Keith Stenning |
After dinner talk reminiscing about HCRC |
Friday 7 May
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Anne Anderson |
Informatics Forum - G.07 | HCRC: Ahead of our times - Crossing the boundaries of institution, discipline and sector: advantages and challenges |
| 10:00 - 11:00 |
Keith Stenning |
Informatics Forum - G.07 | Language evolution: enlarging the picture |
| 11:00 - 11:15 |
Coffee break |
Informatics Forum | |
| 11:15 - 12:15 |
Annie Zaenen |
Informatics Forum - G.07 | Getting from Text to reasoning, a case study. |
| 12:15 - 1:15 |
Simon Garrod |
Informatics Forum - G.07 | Reminiscing about HCRC and its achievements |
| 1:15 - 3:00 | Language at Edinburgh Lunch | Informatics Forum | The Language at Edinburgh Lunch has invited the HCRC & CogSci reunion to join them at their bi-monthly poster presentation and lunch which allows those interested in language to showcase their research and discuss ideas and socialise with researchers in other fields. Participants include staff and students from Informatics, Philosophy, Psychology and Linguistics and English Language. Lunch will be provided. |
| 3:00 - 4:00 |
Jeremy Seligman |
Informatics Forum - G.07 | Channels and Minds |
| 4:00 - 5:00 |
Justine Cassell |
Informatics Forum - G.07 | Gossip and Small Talk: a Short Social History of Epistemics, and of Virtual Humans |
| 7:00 - 11:30 |
Closing Ceilidh |
Informatics Forum |
The Ceilidh, now a great Informatics tradition, will end the reunion on a high note. A buffet dinner will be provided, along with a chance to dance the night away. |
