On the 17th of November we had a symposium to honor Lars Borin on his 65 anniversary. The symposium took place at Chalmersska huset, starting from 13:00, with invited speakers, a coffee break and music.
Invited speakers included guests from Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and USA. The complete program is specified below.
13:00-13:15 Welcome (Dana Dannélls, Karin Helgesson, Elena Volodina)
13:15-13:45 Anna Sågvall Hein: Datorlingvistikens vagga i Uppsala
13:45-13:55 Krister Lindén: Datorlingvistikens sugga i Helsingfors
13:55-14:15 Quiz: Larsology (Sasha Berdicevskis)
14:15-14:30 Bernard Comrie: Investigating a Linguistic Mini-Landscape: The Tsez (Dido) Dialect Dictionary Project
14:30-15:10 Coffee with music (Niklas Zechner)
15:10-15:30 Bolette S. Pedersen: The Role of Lexical Conceptual Resources in the Era of Language Models
15:30-15:45 Lars Ahrenberg: Att vara Lars: Några tankar om språkteknologi och socioonomastik
15:45-16:00 Break
16:00-16:15 Lena Rogström: Att räkna(s) – en personlig reflektion om kopplingen mellan Lars och min egen vurm för naturvetenskap på 1700-talet
16:15-16:40 Lennart Lönngren: Semantiken i SALDO
16:40-17:00 Ending