Kajsa Djärv Department of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania Factive verbs: a multi-dimensional approach to the syntax and meaning of assertion and presupposition This talk looks at sentences like (1), which involve finite that-clauses embedded under different classes of verbs. (1) John {said, believes, doubts, resents, discovered} that Mary likes Kraftwerk. Semantically, […]
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Chaz Firestone Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Johns Hopkins University Taking a machine’s perspective How similar is the human mind to the sophisticated machine-learning systems that can behave like it? Biologically inspired neural network models — including ever-more-popular DeepNets — have taken our field by storm, reaching human-level benchmarks in recognizing new […]
Meena Krishnamurthy Department of Philosophy University of Michigan Location: Claudia Cohen Hall, Room 402