ILLC PhD Pilot Study

Findings and Recommendations

The PhD Programme eValuation Committee (PVC) has two main aims: (1) to evaluate and maintain the quality of the ILLC PhD Programme as well as the working conditions of the PhD candidates at the ILLC, and (2) to act as an independent confidant to whom PhD candidates can address their concerns. To fulfil these aims, every year the PVC conducts a series of interviews with the PhD candidates. This ...

Metric and Layered Temporal Logic for Time Granularity

This dissertation is about the design of temporal logics that deal with changing timegranularities. Time granularity can be de ned as the resolution power of the temporalquali cation of a statement. Providing a formalism with the concept of time granularitymakes it possible to specify time information with respect to di erently-grained temporaldomains. This does not merely m...

ILLC A Study of Optimality Theory and the Human Sentence Processing Mechanism

Assessment of Patient Absorbed Radiation Dose during Hysterosalpingography: A Pilot Study in Southwest Nigeria

Background: Hysterosalpingography (HSG) is an indispensable tool for diagnosing infertility in females. The procedure exposes female reproductive organs to ionizing radiation as the genitals are irradiated during the process. Investigating patient absorbed dose during the procedures is essential for effective radiological protection of the patient. Objective: This study aims to investigat...

The ILLC-uva SMT system for IWSLT 2010

In this paper we give an overview of the ILLC-UvA(Institute for Logic, Language and Computation University of Amsterdam) submission to the 7th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation evaluation campaign. It outlines the architecture and configuration of the novel feature we are introducing: a syntax-based model for source-side reordering via tree transduction. We have concentrated...