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School of Information Technology seminars

12 October 2005

'Radio-frequency identification unplugged', by Mr Peter Williams and Mr Grant Sayer, Eclipse Group/ Deloitte, and Mr Rick Beasley, NLIS field operations manager.

When: Thursday 13 October, 3 - 4.30 pm (with drinks and nibbles afterwards)
Where: Link theatre, level 2, building S, Caulfield

Peter Williams and Grant Sayer will describe the strategic and operational benefits that can be derived from the implementation of RFID technology. Rick Beasley will describe the implementation of RFID technology at NLIS and will demonstrate the RFID technology used for the implementation at NLIS.

For further information or to RSVP, email sue.foster@infotech.monash.edu.au or helana.scheepers@infotech.monash.edu.au.

'Fine-grained differences and similarities in meanings' by Professor Graeme Hirst, Universities of Toronto and Colorado

When: Friday 4 November, noon
Where: Seminar Room 75.G55, Clayton campus

Writing or speaking requires making choices from words and syntactic constructions that have similar but not identical meanings. Are two parties "foes" or "enemies"? Did John meet Mary or was Mary met by John? An important component of language understanding is recognizing the implications of the nuances in the speaker's or writer's choices. I will describe our research on computational aspects of linguistic nuance, focusing on the differentiation of near-synonyms and on the consequences that arise for knowledge representation formalisms. In addition, I will discuss how contemporary views of meaning in computational linguistics need to be broadened to take into account the choices that the speaker or writer makes.

For further information email Associate Professor Ingrid Zukerman ingrid.zukerman@infotech.monash.edu.au.