Nous accueillons à partir du 25 novembre 2019 le professeur Daniel Lassiter (Stanford University (USA)) pour une série de quatre séminaires sur le thème « Modals, conditionals, and probabilistic generative models ».
Ces séminaires se dérouleront à l’Université Paris Diderot – Bâtiment Olympes de Gouge – 8 rue Albert Einstein – 75013 Paris de 16h00 à 18h00 – Salle 533.
This lecture series focuses on the role of probabilistic generative models, especially causal models, in natural language semantics and reasoning. The use of causal models suggests new solutions to several difficult empirical problems in these domains, and revive neglected points of interface between model-theoretic semantics and process-oriented theories of meaning that have been explored in cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence.
• Lecture 1. Introduction to generative models; application to the language of uncertainty. Lundi 25 novembre 2019 /!\ ATTENTION /!\ ce premier séminaire aura exceptionnellement lieu en salle 357 du bâtiment Olympe de Gouge
• Lecture 2. Indicative conditionals and triviality: separating semantics from reasoning. Lundi 02 décembre 2019
• Lecture 3. Causal models and counterfactuals: let’s get serious about the linguistic details. Mercredi 11 décembre 2019
• Lecture 4. Reasoning about impossibilia: laziness, hyperintensionality, and counterfactuals with impossible antecedents. Lundi 16 décembre 2019