Kalendarium

This presentation is an attempt, the first of its kind, to map and analyze central aspects and trends pertaining to the Jewish and Zionist world's affinity and observation of India and its culture from the end of the era of Enlightenment till the gaining of independence of both Israel and India.

Utterance Spaces --- how to represent lexical items, constructions, and
contextual data in a unified vector space

In the post-1850 phase, the first set of exclusive literature on tribes came from the pen of colonial administrator-cum-ethnographers. The paper surveys the rise of this literature and analyses its contents. The paper shows that the substance of the traditional Hindu idea showing the Indian tribe as beastly and demonic humans crept into the present literature. Western racism colluded with the loca

We are going to present a short report of our recent field work in Badakhshan district (Khorog and its immediate environment) aimed at documenting Shughni as it is spoken currently. Specimens of recorded texts will be provided.

Föreläsning om den kinesiska konstens historia och dess samhälleliga betydelse.

The role and importance of material objects in Orhan Pamuk’s works show an increasing development from his first novels onwards, culminating in The Museum of Innocence (2008). Especially in The Black Book (1990), rooms and other scenes are meticulously described down to the tiniest details; in this respect Pamuk has used French 19th-century authors such as Balzac, Flaubert and not least Proust.

An interdisciplinary conference examining human diversity in the past, present, and future from many perspectives, including genetics, archaeology, cultural evolution, and gender. The conference is free of charge and open to staff, students and interested members of the public.

Bhisham Sahni: Analys av flera noveller och filmen "Tamas", baserad på Sahnis roman av samma namn

Uigurerna är ett centralasiatiskt turkfolk. Deras traditionella bosättningsområde omfattar nuvarande Uiguriska autonoma regionen Xinjiang, men också i Kazakstan, Kirgizistan och Uzbekistan. Diasporagrupper finns även i Saudiarabien, Sverige, Turkiet, USA m.fl. länder. Genom forskning och missionsverksamhet finns i Sverige sedan länge ett etablerat intresse för uigurerna och deras språk. Temadagen

This dissertation is a study of modern Indian philosophy.

Research on Some Key Aspects of Document-level Neural Machine Translation

Predicting speech errors in Mandarin based on word frequency

Läsning och analys av ”Chīk” och ”Upmahādvīp” av Ajay Navaria i ”Pathetikathā Aur Anya Kahāniyã”, och "Talāsh" och "Kharoṁc" av Jay Prakash Kardam i novellsamlingar under samma namn.

Deep and Shallow in Automated Cognate Detection

Denna presentation behandlar de föränderliga betydelserna av 'Mesopotamien' som ett namn för landskapet genom vilket floderna Eufrat och Tigris flyter från ca. 2000 före vår tideräkning och fram till i dag.

How to build a threat intelligence machine

In connection with Marc Tang’s defense in linguistics on March 9, we have the pleasure of inviting you to a series of lectures on linguistics and language technology with leading experts in the field. Participation is open to all interested and no registration required.

Disputation

Do morphological oppositions obey the principle of least effort? Quantitative evidence from 60 languages

Natural Language Understanding with Limited Training Data

Mitigating Gender Bias in Morphologically Rich Languages

Probing word and sentence embeddings for long-distance dependencies effects in French and English

Linguistic Typology Meets Universal Dependencies: Issues in Teaching and Annotating Syntax

Hidden Biases. Ethical Issues in NLP, and What to Do about Them

Modelling the Influence of Context on Sentence Acceptability

Definiteness is a category that is not marked in written standard Persian. However, both spoken Persian and a number of other Iranian languages have markers of definiteness. It is also marked in written Kurdish. This seminar will discuss marking of definiteness in a number of New West Iranian languages.

Eka Tchkoidze (Erasmus+ fellow at the Department of History) gives a seminar on Georgian Hagiography (structure, motives and connections with Byzantine hagiography).

Eka Tchkoidze is Associate Professor of History, School of Arts and Sciences, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia. Two of her main areas are Georgian and Byzantine hagiography and the history of the Black Sea during the 19th c.

Learning Vector Representations of Abstraction with Entailment-Based Distributional Semantics

Thanks to the “Africa, the cradle of human diversity” conference
https://africathecradleofhumandiversity.com/ organized by the Human
Evolution department we have some distinguished specialists on African
linguistics visiting Uppsala. So we have taken the opportunity to
organize a Mini-Workshop on African linguistics in the afternoon of
Wednesday the 22 May 14.15-16.

In this seminar I will present my transcription and translation of a 16th century Konkani manuscript about the birth of Rama. The text is a part of a version of Ramayana in Konkani, which was written down in Latin script and studied by Catholic missionaries in Goa in order to learn to use the literary style and develop an adequate religious terminology.

Disputation

How to Parse Low-Resource Languages: Cross-Lingual Parsing, Target Language Annotation, or Both?

Linguistically Informed Neural Dependency Parsing in a Multilingual Perspective

Three Case studies in Computational Linguistics

En workshop på tvärs av ämnes- och regionala specialiseringar i forntidsstudier för att utforska individuella identiteter och sociala förhållanden omfattade av inskrift, bild och föremål.

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