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Artificial vs AuthenticThe Art of Language Invention

Speaker: David Peterson , HBOs Game of Thrones

Talk Title: Artificial vs Authentic:The Art of Language Invention

Series: Artificial Intelligence Seminar

Abstract: As long as humans have been using language, humans have been inventing language. Linguistic creativity has taken many different forms over the years, but it's made its greatest strides in the past 25 years. For languages like Esperanto and Volapük, functionality and unambiguity were lofty design goals. Today, with languages created for entirely different purposes, functionality is considered a prerequisite, and unambiguity a major design flaw. In this talk, David Peterson discusses naturalistic language creation, and the emerging art form known as conlanging.

Biography: David Peterson is a language creator and author. Since 2009, he's been working on HBO's Game of Thrones, having created the Dothraki and Valyrian languages. Since then, he's gone on to work on a number of other projects, including Syfy's Defiance, Syfy's Dominion, Marvel's Thor: The Dark World, the CW's Star-Crossed, the CW's The 100, and Showtime's Penny Dreadful. He authored the book Living Language Dothraki, an introductory guide to the Dothraki language, and in September, he'll be publishing The Art of Language Invention with Penguin Random House.

Host: Ashish Vaswani

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Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 11th Flr Conf Rm s1135 & 1137 Marina Del Rey

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Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Peter Zamar

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