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Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics 2 (QITL-2)

Scientific Programme

 


 

Invited speakers

 

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Conference programme

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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© 2006 by Stefan Evert (Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück)