Publications

2011

• A Lopopolo & T. Biró (2011). Language change and SA-OT: the case of sentential negation. Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Journal, 1, 21-40.

2010

• T. Biró (2010). Will Optimality Theory colonize all of higher cognition? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33(5), 383-384.

2009

• A. Dimitriadis, M. Windhouwer, A. Saulwick, R. Goedemans & T. Bíró (2009). How to integrate databases without starting a typology war: the Typological Database System. In M. Everaert, S. Musgrave & A. Dimitriades (Eds.), The use of databases in cross-linguistic studies (Empirical approaches to language typology, 41) (pp. 155-208). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
• T. Biró (2009). Elephants and optimality again: SA-OT accounts for pronoun resolution in child language. In B. Plank, E. Tjong Kim Sang & T. van de Cruys (Eds.), Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2009: selected papers from the nineteenth CLIN meeting Vol. 14. LOT. Occasional series (pp. 9-24). Utrecht: LOT.

2007

• T. Biró (2007). The Benefits of Errors: Learning an OT Grammar with a Structured Candidate Set. In P. Buttery, A. Villavicencio & A. Korhonen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Acquisition, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007 (pp. 81-88). Prague, Czech Republic: Association for Computational Linguistics.

2012

• T.S. Biró (2012). Értelek, értelek... de miről beszélsz?? A keresztény-zsidó párbeszéd a kognitív vallástudomány perspektívájából. In K.D. Dobos & Gy. Fodor (Eds.), Vízió és valóság: Új perspektívák és kihívások a zsidó–keresztény dialógusban a 21. század elején (Studia Theologica Budapestinensia, 35) (pp. 51-71). Budapest: Márton Áron Kiadó.

2011

• T.S. Biró (2011). Optimal religion. Optimality Theory accounts for ritual dynamics. In I. Czachesz & T..S. Biró (Eds.), Changing Minds. Religion and Cognition Through the Ages (Groningen Studies in Cultural Change, 42) (pp. 155-191). Leuven: Peeters.

2011

• I. Czachesz & T.S. Biró (2011). Introduction. In I. Czachesz & T.S. Biró (Eds.), Changing Minds. Religion and Cognition Through the Ages (Groningen Studies in Cultural Change, 42) (pp. 9-16). Leuven: Peeters.

2006

• T. Bíró. Finding the Right Words: Implementing Optimality Theory with Simulated Annealing. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (XIV + 250 pag.) (Groningen: s.n.). Supervisor(s): J. Nerbonne, G. Bouma & D.G. Gilbers.

2011

• T.S. Biró (2011). Postdoctoral fellowship. Recognition.
• I. Czachesz & T. Biró (Eds.). (2011). Changing minds: religion and cognition through the ages. (Groningen studies in cultural change, 42). Leuven: Peeters.

2008

• T.S. Biró (2008). Veni grant "Efficient communication full of errors: Linguistic performance in a virtual speech community". Recognition.

2011

• T.S. Biró (2011, November 24). Ki metélte körül Ábrahámot? Kognitív megközelítések a Biblia-magyarázatban (That's not an option among the languages. (Would you be so kind to add it?)). Budapest, Leopold Löw memorial conference.
• T. Biró (2011). Religious mental structures: counterintuitiveness represented in Optimality Theory. New Developments in the Cognitive Science of Religion, the yearly meeting of IACSR, at the annual CSS conference: Boston, MA (2011, July 20).
• T. Biró & J. Gervain (2011). Optimality theory as a general cognitive architecture. In Expanding the space of cognitive science: proceedings of the 33rd annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Boston, Massachusetts, July 20-23, 2011 (pp. 62-63). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
• A Lopopolo & T.S. Biró (2011, February 11). Language Evolution and SA-OT: The case of sentential negation. University College Ghent, Belgium, Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN) 21.
• T. Biró & J. Gervain (2011). Workshop "Optimality Theory as a general cognitive architecture". 33rd annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Boston, MA (2011, July 20).
• T.S. Biró (2011, July 4). Linguistics as a Model for the Cognitive Approaches in Biblical Studies. London, International meeting of SBL.

2010

• T.S. Biró (2010, January 25). A nyelvi kompetencia és a nyelvi performancia határán: Az Optimalitáselmélet implementációja szimulált hokezeléssel [On the border of linguistic competence and linguistic performance: Implementing Optimality Theory with simulated annealing]. Budapest, 18th Hungarian Cognitive Conference: Interfaces in the Cognitive Sciences.
• T. Biró (2010, February 14). From Performance Errors to Optimal Competence: Learnability of OT and HG with Simulated Annealing. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, Workshop on Computational Modelling of Sound Pattern Acquisition.
• T. Biró (2010, March 4). Who Circumcised Abraham? – Ritual Agency in Jewish Texts. Groningen, First International Workshop on the Cognitive Study of Religious Texts.
• T. Biró (2010, June 4). OTKit: Tools, Tricks and Techniques for Optimality Theory. Groningen, 31st TABU Dag.
• T. Biró (2010). OTKit: Tools for Optimality Theory.
• T.S. Biró (2010, November 26). Az imperialista Optimalitáselmélet? [The Imperialist Optimality Theory?]. Budapest, Hungary, Conference at the occasion of the 20th anniversary of establishing the Theoretical Linguistics Program at the ELTE university.
• T. Biró (2010, February 5). Acquiring Competence from Performance Data: Online learnability of OT and HG with simulated annealing. Utrecht, Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN).
• R. Nikolsky, I. Czachesz & T.S. Biró (2010). First International Workshop on the Cognitive Study of Religious Texts.

2009

• T.S. Biró (2009, July 4). Nature, nurture – what about “second nature”? Amsterdam, KNAW Master classes on Language Acquisition and Optimality Theory.
• T.S. Biró (2009, March 4). Performance of Learning & Learning from Performance. Osnabrück, Workshop on Learning Meets Acquisition, within the 31st yearly meeting of DGfS.
• T.S. Biró (2009). Learning Competence from Performance Data: Learnability and symbolic Simulated Annealing for OT and HG. KNAW Academy Colloquium on Language Acquisition and Optimality Theory: Amsterdam (2009, July 2 - 2009, July 3).
• T.S. Biró (2009). HarNóMia vagy OTpimalitás? Grammatikus, szabálytalan és gyorsbeszédi alakok OT-ben és HG-ban [HarNoMy or OTpimality? Grammatical, irregular and fast speech forms in OT and in HG]. Speech Research: Budapest (2009, October 16).
• T.S. Biró (2009, May 14). Finding the Right Words – All you wanted to know about Optimality Theory, Harmony Grammar and Simulated Annealing, but were afraid to ask.... Amsterdam, Sound Circle (invited).

2007

• A. Dimitriadis, M.A. Windhouwer, A.G. Saulwick, R.W.N. Goedemans, T.S. Biró & K. Hengeveld (2007, November 9). Integrated access to diverse linguistic databases with the Typological Database System. New York University, New York, USA, Workshop on the Feasibility of a Web-based Database of the Syntactic Stuctures of the World's Languages.
• A. Dimitriadis, M.A. Windhouwer, A.G. Saulwick, T.S. Biró, R.W.N. Goedemans & K. Hengeveld (2007, September 27). TDS launch. Paris, France, Association for Linguistic Typology 7th.
• A. Dimitriadis, M.A. Windhouwer, T.S. Biró, R.W.N. Goedemans & K. Hengeveld (2007, November 16). The typological database system. Utrecht, Twaalfde Taalgala.
• T.S. Biró (2007, June 8). On the Importance of Errors: Competence and Performance in Optimality Theory. Groningen, Tabu Dag 2007.
• T.S. Biró (2007, January 10). Learning an OT grammar with a structured candidate set. Bielefeld, Germany, Linguistic Colloquium (invited).
• A. Dimitriadis, M.A. Windhouwer, A.G. Saulwick, R.W.N. Goedemans, T.S. Biró & K. Hengeveld (2007, April 2). Typological Database Systyem. Leipzig, Germany, Workshop on Typological Databases.
• A. Dimitriadis, M.A. Windhouwer, T.S. Biró, R.W.N. Goedemans & K. Hengeveld (2007, September 27). The typological database system. Paris, ALT 7.
• T.S. Biró (2007, March 2). Finding the Right Words: implementing Optimality Theory with Simulated Annealing. ILLC, UvA, Amsterdam, DIP colloquium, ILLC (invited).

2006

• M.A. Windhouwer, A.G. Saulwick, A. Dimitriadis, R.W.N. Goedemans & T.S. Biró (2006). Typological Database System.
• K. Hengeveld, A. Dimitriadis, M.A. Windhouwer, T.S. Biró & R. Goedemans (2006). Demonstration and meeting of TDS contributors, developers and friends.
• T.S. Biró (2006, December 8). Simulated Annealing for Optimality Theory: A performance model for phonology. Groningen, Workshop on Computing and Phonology.