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| Wednesday, 31 May 2006 | |
| 19:00 | Warming-up meeting (restaurant Enchilada, Pottgraben 60) |
| Thursday, 1 June 2006 | |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | Introduction |
| 09:20 - 10:20 | Invited talk: Separated by a Common Language |
| Tom Wasow (Stanford University) | |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | — coffee break — |
| 10:40 - 12:00 | Weighting the constraints on word-order variation in German (abstract, slides) |
| Markus Bader, Jana Häussler | |
| A frequency effect as conditioned by phonological grammar (abstract, slides) | |
| Kie Zuraw | |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | — lunch — |
| 14:00 - 15:20 | Need and competition: Deconstructing quantitative productivity (abstract, slides) |
| Anke Lüdeling, Marco Baroni, Stefan Evert | |
| Lexical productivity: Theoretical issues and quantitative measures (abstract, slides) | |
| Isabella Chiari | |
| 15:20 - 15:50 | — coffee break — |
| 15:50 - 17:10 | Exploring the distribution of animacy: Experiments on Norwegian (abstract) |
| Lilja Øvrelid | |
| Quantifying aspects of antonym canonicity in English and Swedish: Textual and experimental (abstract, slides) | |
| Carita Paradis, Caroline Willners, Simone Löhndorf, Lynne Murphy | |
| 17:10 - 17:30 | — afternoon tea — |
| 17:30 - 18:30 | Invited talk: Modeling Meaning Constitution (abstract) |
| Burghard Rieger (Universität Trier) | |
| 20:00 - 23:00 | Conference party |
| Friday, 2 June 2006 | |
| 09:00 - 10:20 | Definitional and human constraints on parsing performance (abstract, online paper) |
| Geoffrey Sampson, Anna Babarczy | |
| Sense-contingent lexical bias and its role for early parsing decisions (abstract, slides) | |
| Daniel Wiechmann | |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | — coffee break — |
| 10:40 - 12:00 | Descriptive, methodological and theoretical issues in syntactic variation research: A multivariate corpus analysis of word order variation in Dutch clause final verb clusters (abstract, slides) |
| Gert De Sutter, Dirk Speelman, Dirk Geeraerts | |
| Simple downward entailment is not strong enough: An ERP study on negative polarity items (NPI) in German (abstract) | |
| Heiner Drenhaus, Joanna Blaszczak, Juliane Schütte | |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | — lunch — |
| 14:00 - 15:20 | Modeling stress assignment in English noun-noun compounds: A quantitative perspective (abstract, slides) |
| Ingo Plag, Gero Kunter, Maria Braun, Sabine Lappe | |
| Using corpus evidence to discover the grammatical structure of compounds (abstract, slides) | |
| Marco Baroni, Emiliano Guevara, Vito Pirrelli, Eros Zanchetta | |
| 15:20 - 15:50 | — coffee break — |
| 15:50 - 17:10 | Complex phenomena deserve complex explanations: Choosing how to THINK in Finnish (abstract, slides) |
| Antti Arppe | |
| Quantitative approaches to metonymy (abstract, slides) | |
| Yves Peirsman | |
| 17:10 - 17:30 | — afternoon tea — |
| 17:30 - 18:30 | Invited talk: Statistical Analysis of Metaphorical Uses of Verbs (abstract) |
| Suzanne Stevenson (University of Toronto) | |
| 19:30 | Final discussion in beer garden |
| Saturday, 3 June 2006 | |
| 10:00 | Guided tour of town centre |
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