Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse: Call for Participation

[Liesbeth Degand]

Apologies for multiple postings

  *** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ***

  MAD'01: 4th International Workshop on

  Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse

  Improving text: From text structure to text type

  5-8 August 2001, Ittre (Belgium)

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Please register BEFORE 1st June 2001, otherwise we cannot guarantee 
availability of (on-site) accommodation.

Also note that the workshop is limited to a maximum of 45 participants. 
Hence, there is only room for a     limited number of non-speaking 
participants and we will work on a "first come - first serve" basis.

GOAL AND TOPICS:
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from different
disciplines, in particular theoretical and applied linguists, computational
linguists, and psycholinguists, to exchange information and learn from each
other on a common topic of investigation: text and discourse. More
specifically, the question to be addressed is "What makes a good text
good?" Text quality depends upon many factors and can in itself be
considered a complex concept (what is good for one aspect of the text need
not benefit other aspects). In order to make real advances in the domains
of text quality and document design, it is necessary to combine results
from both theoretical (linguistics) and experimental (psychology) research.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Francis Cornish, Equipe de Recherche en Syntaxe et Sémantique, Université 
de Toulouse le Mirail
Donia Scott, Information Technology Research Institute, University of Brighton
Patricia Wright, School of Psychology, Cardiff University
Rolf Zwaan, Psychology Department, Florida State University

ACCOMMODATION, REGISTRATION, PROGRAMME, ...

For up-to-date information on all matters concerning the workshop, please
check the MAD website:
http://www.exco.ucl.ac.be/ld/MAD/mad-presentation.htm

If the information you need is not available, feel free to contact the
organisers.

Liesbeth Degand, coordinator (degand at exco.ucl.ac.be)
Yves Bestgen (bestgen at exco.ucl.ac.be)
Véronique De Keyser (vdekeyser at ulg.ac.be)
Jon Oberlander (jon at cogsci.ed.ac.uk)
Wilbert Spooren (w.spooren at let.vu.nl)
Luuk Van Waes (Luuk.VanWaes at ufsia.ac.be)

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