Research Clusters

 I gave an internal talk at the Topos Institute on the axes of my research,  at the end of last year.  I tried to describe the  research clusters above. 

Yes, the last axis, the lexical resources stuff has been suffering a bit lately, as has the Natural Language inference. This is because the Dialectica Spaces are taking all the 'oxygen' available. Because good things need to happen before our MRC programme gets off the ground soon. Unfortunately the Dialectica spaces are not going very far,  either. 

Some things have been happening, e.g. the two papers with Davide and Matteo  are very cool indeed. and I'm hoping for lots more on the subject.

Elena, Wilmer and I  managed to submit our "Dialectica Petri Nets", which is great. 

Katerina, Livy and I managed to describe some simple, but interesting application of basic transformers technology, i.e. spaCy, to historic text.  Where there's text, there are applications of spaCy, I'm sure.

But by and large I am losing the war. I need to finish my ill-fated research proposal, I need to resubmit the three papers that were rejected last year, I have to prepare two Invited talks, I have  several rounds of reviews that I need to deal with yesterday, I am only half way through with the posts about the DLMPST, the Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology.

Also, for this blog, I need to do a similar job to the one I did with Twelve Days of Christmas: I need to see which papers have been written  from my list of talks at Talking the Talk. Also I need to clean up my Overleaf account, update my personal website, my Lattes, my Google site. thank goodness tomorrow is Sunday!

Friends and Women Celebrations

 

Toucans are really beautiful birds. As are hummingbirds. And the blossom in the garden is almost all gone already, while I despair of getting my work done. Yes, I know I need to say no, I need to decline invitations to speak, to review, to teach, to record and/or to judge stuff. And I need to get back to my yoga, to some aerobic exercises, to cooking some decent food--instead of pretending that not eating will make me less fat. It won't, it only makes me cranky and ugglier.

But while I do have all these wishful thoughts, there's a very finite number of truly awaken hours in the week and an awful lot of stuff that needs to happen in these hours. I could do without friends turning out to not be good friends after all. I guess it's the curse of getting excited about people and projects: it comes with big disappointments too.

Anyways here are two videos, which have nothing to do with disappointing friends. The first one is "Mulheres na Ciência" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ughhF2oW4Wc, seven minutes, beautiful edition, beautiful diverse women talking! 

The other one is a longer conversation among logician friends. We are "Lógicas Brasileiras" and this conversation at the request of our Mexican friends was great! We feel very honoured that the logicians of LogicaMX, via Maria Miércoles-MartínezOrdaz, invited us to celebrate with them Friendship and Collaborative Logic work. We had a blast, check it out at https://youtu.be/hp0XVQnqH68!

"Lógicas Brasileiras" is an outreach project that aims at promoting the work of Brazilian female logicians and members of underrepresented groups in logic.  ---- Website: https://logicasbrasileiras.wordpress.com