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Tamas Biro as a child, looking at a bookstore    

Tamás Biró

Human being (born: 1975)

E-mail: birot @ birot.hu.

Academia.edu page and LinkedIn page.

For further contact info, please contact me in an e-mail.

Tamas Biro, April 2006

Current affiliation:

  • Senior research fellow at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
    See my personal page.

Recent affiliations:

  • Temporary lecturer at the Linguistics Department of Yale University (personal page).
  • Earlier: Institute of Phonetic Sciences, within ACLC,
    at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam.
Tamas Biro, March 2012

Highlights:

  • 2013-14: An exceptional year spent at Yale University.
  • 2013: Article published in JoLLI on Robust Interpretive Parsing
  • 2012-2013: Rothschild Foundation grant
  • 2009-2012: NWO Veni grant
  • 2012: Changing Minds (volume edited with István Czachesz)
  • Since 2010: OTKit: Tools for Optimality Theory (software package)
  • 2006: Finding the Right Words (phd dissertation)

Link to course descriptions.

What do I work on?

  • Optimality Theory for non-linguists: written around 2003, strictly for non-linguists.
  • Various descriptions of my Veni-project: written around 2009, for non-specialists.
  • List of publications, as well as references to them, beside some pieces of software.
  • Conference presentations, posters, etc.
  • Workshops and conferences I organized or otherwise was involved in. Please let me highlight:
    • 2011: Optimality Theory as a General Cognitive Architecture (Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society)
    • 2009: Learning Meets Acquisition (DGfS Tagung)

Scholarly networks:

  • Bidirectional Phonology and Phonetics, research group at ACLC, University of Amsterdam
  • Unlearnable and Learnable Languages, research group at ACLC, University of Amsterdam
  • Centre for Religion & Cognition
  • A Nordic project on Ritual and the Emergence of Early Christian Religion: A Socio-Cognitive Analysis (REECR)
  • Networks of the Dutch Republic

Miscellanies in my life, with links:

  • I was born in Budapest, Hungary, on November 24, 1975.
  • A note on my name, its pronouciation and orthography.
  • I studied physics, theoretical linguistics and Hebrew studies at the Eötvös Loránd University
  • Then, I was a a young research fellow at the department of Hebrew (Eötvös University, Budapest), a.k.a. Center for Jewish Studies, a.k.a. Institute for Ethnic and National Minority Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
  • Subsequently, I was employed by the Typological Database System Project (TDS) of the University of Amsterdam.
  • Later, I became a temporary lecturer (universitair docent 2) at the University of Groningen.
  • My page on the LOT website.
  • For a detailed CV, click here.

Further stuff:

  • OTKit version 1.0 published on 22/01/2010.
  • AVT/Anéla Dissertatieprijs 2007 (best dissertation in linguistics in the Netherlands). Report of the jury (in Dutch only).
  • Workshop on Computational Phonology, September 26, 2007, Borovets, Bulgaria.
  • December 8, 2006: Workshop on Computing and Phonology
  • ESSLLI 2005 Student Session, Edinburgh.
  • The Archive for Religion & Cognition and The Centre for Religion & Cognition.
  • Pictures about my Phd defense.
  • A program checking whether your sudoku only has one solution.

Even though my full name is Tamás Sándor Bíró and I also studied in the Berzsenyi Daniel High School, I am not identical with a known physicist with the same name.


 

And here is my page in Hungarian.