News

Here, we publish articles about the Centre and its activities, and interviews with our scholars about their time at CAS and the progress and results of their research.

Research in Review: 'SynSem: From Form to Meaning - Integrating Linguistics and Computing'

The CAS project set out to bridge the gap between the applied and theoretical camps of computational linguistics. Did it succeed?

My Time at CAS: Dan Flickinger

The Stanford University researcher discusses climbing metaphorical mountains and rattling cages in his year as a CAS fellow.

Meaningful Work: Advancing Computational Semantics

At a CAS-hosted workshop, linguists debate approaches to turning text into information that computers can understand.

CAS fellows win 'best paper award' at computational linguistics conference

Adam Przepiórkowski and Agnieszka Patejuk's research will be recognised at the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING).

New blog explores Norwegian grammatical phenomena with data

CAS fellow Helge Dyvik tackles assumptions with analyses in a blog inspired by his participation in the CAS project 'SynSem: From Form to Meaning - Integrating Linguistics and Computing.'

Gaps and Errors: A Linguistic Struggle

Scholars associated with the CAS project 'SynSem: From Form to Meaning – Integrating Linguistics and Computing' face a number of challenges 'regular' people would never consider, although they use language every day.

24 January 2018

Project Update: 'SynSem: From Form to Meaning -- Integrating Linguistics and Computing'

CAS fellows discuss their work on bridging the gap between computational and theoretical linguistics.

01 September 2017

Meet the Group Leaders: Dag Trygve Truslew Haug and Stephan Oepen

Today nearly everyone walks around with a device capable of translating the world’s major languages. But where some see opportunity, Dag Trygve Truslew Haug and Stephan Oepen, professors of classics and informatics, respectively, at the University of Oslo, see limitations.

2017/2018: Molecular Chemistry, Medieval War and Computational Linguistics

The academic year of 2016/2017 is just about to come to an end, and CAS is looking forward to the next. In August, we will welcome three new research groups working on computational linguistics, molecular chemistry, and the Nordic “civil wars”. No doubt next year’s groups will be as versatile as their predecessors.