Annual Report 2001 - Conferences / Seminars / Short Courses / Other events held at the University
annual report 2001
conferences / seminars / short courses / other events held at the university
Faculty of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
School of Computer Applications
Aziz B
Seminar - Security Analysis of Distributed Computational Models
February 2001.
Bimeph Y
Seminar - Estimation of Errors in Accounting Population March 2001.
Browne P.
Seminar - Segmenting Digital Video March 2001.
Farren F
Presentation to a group of Erasmus teachers hosted by Department
of Education. Presented ICT coursework developed by teachers on
Multimedia Computer Applications in Education and Network Information
Management modules of Masters in Computer Applications in Education
May 2001.
The use of WebCT within the Masters in Computer Applications for Education course. Building Bridges Between Disciplines and Between Research and Teaching D.C.U. August 2001.
Gurrin C
Seminar - Linkage Analysis an Improvement over Standard Web IR?
March 2001.
Haran A
Seminar - Collaborative Personalities in Games of Strategy - March
2001.
Hamilton G
Organised Postgraduate Seminar Series
[http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~hamilton/pgseminars.shtml]
Seminar - Excommunication: Transforming pi-Calculus Specifications to Remove Internal Communication - October 2001.
Kambur D
Seminar - Behaviour Storage in Object-Oriented Databases - April
2001.
Lee H
Seminar - User-Interface Design for Keyframe-Based Contents Browsing
of Digital Video - April 2001.
McDonald K.
Seminar - Video Retrieval Systems - April 2001.
Oehl F
Seminar - Formal Verification of Cryptographic Protocols - May 2001.
Ruskin H
Seminars for Research Methodology series (for taught Masters).
Other talks/events arranged - internal research seminars for Modelling and Scientific Computing group in CA 2000/2001.
Scott M
Seminar -Secure communications using a low entropy secret - October
2001.
Sinclair D
Seminar - When good ideas go bad: online certificate status protocols
- October 2001.
Sodring T
Seminar - Can we represent music as text and apply standard IR techniques
in searching a music collection? - May 2001.
Smeaton A.
Organised the Second NSF-DELOS Workshop on Personalisation and Recommender
Systems in Digital Libraries Dublin City University Ireland 18-20
June 2001.
van Genabith J and Kenny D
Dublin Computational Linguistics Research Seminar Series (DCLRSs)
2000-2001 weekly International Seminar Series run jointly by Dublin
City University Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin.
[http://www.computing.dcu.ie/dclrs/].
van Genabith J Fernando T and Vogel C
London-Dublin Computational and Theoretical Linguistics Colloquium
2001 May 19th-20th DCU joint colloquium Department of Computer
Science King's College London Department of Philosophy King's
College London School of Computer Applications Dublin City University
Department of Computer Science Trinity College Dublin. [http://www.computing.dcu.ie/dclrs/colloquium.htm].
Walshe R Daly C Ward M
Organised a short course in Tutoring of Undergraduate Computing
Students in a Lab Based Environment.
Wang R
Seminar - Modelling Traffic Flow in Urban Networks - May 2001.
Ward M
Dublin Computational Linguistics Research Seminar Series (DCLRSs)
[http://www.computing.dcu.ie/dclrs/]
2000-2001 weekly International Seminar Series run jointly by Dublin
City University Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin.
London-Dublin Computational and Theoretical Linguistics Colloquium 2001 [http://www.computing.dcu.ie/dclrs/colloquium.htm] May 19th-20th DCU joint colloquium Department of Computer Science King's College London Department of Philosophy King's College London School of Computer Applications Dublin City University Department of Computer Science Trinity College Dublin.
CALL Workshop DCU May 2001.
CALL Workshop DCU August 2001.
Seminar - "LFG-DOT: A Hybrid Architecture for Robust MT"- 23 March 2001.
Wu Hai.
Seminar - Human Hand Gesture Recognition in Real-time - April 2001.
Yongle L
Seminar - Can we represent music as text and apply standard IR techniques
in searching a music collection? - May 2001.
Dublin Computational Linguistics Research Seminars (run jointly by DCU TCD UCD)
Michael Benis London
"Chasing productivity rainbows. The facts and fiction of translation
memory and speech recognition software" 20 October 2000.
Dr Martin Pickering Department of Psychology University of Edinburgh
"Language comprehension: Some on-line studies" 27 October
2000.
Dr Mary Dalrymple Xerox PARC Palo Alto CA
"Feature Indeterminacy and Feature Resolution in Description-Based
Syntax" 10 November 2000.
Dr Arturo Trujillo Vocalis plc Cambridge UK
"Dialogue Management in Commercial Speech Recognition"
17 November 2000.
Dr Paul Piwek ITRI Brighton UK
"Information Flow and Gaps: a proof-theoretic approach to anaphora
and questions" 24 November 2000.
Dr Michael Oakes Sheffield University UK
"A Concept-Based Method for Automatic Abstracting" 1
December 2000.
Dr Rob Gaizauskas Sheffield University UK
"Is That Your Final Answer? : The Role of Confidence in Question
Answering Systems" 8 December 2000.
Dr Paola Monachesi Utrecht University NL
"A Language Typological Database System" 26 January 2001.
Dr Arthur Cater University College Dublin
"Diagnosing the relationships between WordNet senses of polysemous
verbs using metaclustering" 2 February 2001.
Professor Dag Westerstahl University of Göteborg Sweden
"Adverbial quantification resumption and 'donkey sentences'"
(joint work with Stanley Peters Stanford University) 9 February
2001.
Dr Tim Fernando Trinity College Dublin
"Generalizing quantifiers over objects and proofs" 16
February 2001.
Dr Johan Bos Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems
University of Edinburgh U.K.
[http://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/~jbos/]
"Two Answers to the Interpretation of Questions" 23 February
2001.
David Woolls CFL Software Development Shipston-on-Stour Warks CV36
5LP UK
"Truly parallel corpora suspiciously parallel texts"
2 March 2001.
Dr John McKenna Computer Applications Dublin City University
"Kalman Filtering Towards Automatic Speaker Characterisation"
9 March 2001.
Dr Andy Way Computer Applications Dublin City University
"LFG-DOT: A Hybrid Architecture for Robust MT" 23 March
2001.
Dr P Healey Information Media and Communication Research Group Department
of Computer Science Queen Mary University of London
"Representational Form and Communicative Use" 6 April
2001.
Professor Martin Kay Stanford University CA
"Computational Linguistics: where it came from and where it
is going" 20 April 2001.
Dr Ailbhe Ni Chasaide Phonetics Laboratory CLCS Trinity College Dublin
"Describing voice source variation its functions in speech
communication and implications for synthetic speech" 27 April
2001.
"Dynamic Syntax.... What goes First?" 18 May 2001.
School of Mathematical Sciences
O'Riordan Eugene
Organized one-day workshop on Numerical Methods for Singularly Perturbed
Problems and Applications to Flow Problems 12 participants Dublin City
University 23 February 2001.
Burzlaff Jurgen
Organized 4th Dublin Differential Equations Conference 40 international
participants Dublin City University 9-13 September 2001.