10.1756, Confs: Semiotics & Ling: VMC 15

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Subject: 10.1756, Confs: Semiotics & Ling: VMC 15

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Date:  Thu, 18 Nov 1999 15:58:26 +0100 (CET)
From:  Martin Cmejrek <cmejrek at ufal.ms.mff.cuni.cz>
Subject:  Semiotics & Ling:Vilem Mathesius Lecture Series 15

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Date:  Thu, 18 Nov 1999 15:58:26 +0100 (CET)
From:  Martin Cmejrek <cmejrek at ufal.ms.mff.cuni.cz>
Subject:  Semiotics & Ling:Vilem Mathesius Lecture Series 15


                The Vilem Mathesius Centre for
	Research and Education in Semiotics and Linguistics

  			Presents the

             Vilem Mathesius Lecture Series 15

                    March 20 - 31, 2000
               Krystal Hotel, J. Marty Street
                  Prague, Czech Republic


                  CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
               PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE & PROGRAM

                       ----oOo----


PROGRAM
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The fifteenth cycle of the Vilem Mathesius Lecture Series, organized by
the Vilem Mathesius Centre for Research and Education in Semiotics and
Linguistics (Charles University), will be held in Prague, Czech Republic,
from March 20 until 31, 2000. The scientific program will consist of
the following invited courses (for preliminary time-schedule see below):


* Anne Abbeill\'e (France): Topics in the Syntax of Romance Languages
* Nicoletta Calzolari (Italy): tba (Corpus linguistics, lexicon)
* Wolfgang Dressler (Austria):  Morphopragmatics: A new subfield integrating
      morphology and pragmatics
* Elisabet Engdahl: Using corpora for comparative syntactic research
* Frederick Jelinek (USA): tba (Language Modelling)
* Aravind Joshi (USA):  title to be announced
* Lauri Karttunen (France): title to be announced
* Martin Kay (USA): Introduction to syntactic processing
* Ferenc Kiefer (Hungary): Between Semantics and Pragmatics
* Barbara Partee (USA) \& Vladimir Borschev (Russia): Integrating Compositional
      and Lexical Semantics: Genitives/Possessives
* Mats Rooth (Germany): Robust statistical parsing
* Mark Steedman (UK): Grammar and Information.

In addition, there will be lectures by professors from the Czech Republic.


PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE
- ------------------------------------------

Tentative time-schedule (may be subject to change):

WEEK 1 (Monday 20.3.2000 - Friday 24.3.2000)

            9.30 - 11.00     11.30 - 13.00   14.30 - 16.00   16.30 - 18.00

Mon. 20     Joshi            Part&Borsh      Engdahl         Calzolari
Tue. 21     Engdahl          Part&Borsh      Joshi           Calzolari
Wed. 22     Engdahl          x               Joshi           x
Thu. 23     Jelinek          Part&Borsh      Dressler        Calzolari
Fri. 24     Jelinek          Part&Borsh      Dressler        x


WEEK 2 (Monday 27.3.2000 - Friday 31.3.2000)

            9.30 - 11.00     11.30 - 13.00   14.30 - 16.00   16.30 - 18.00

Mon. 27     Steedman         Kiefer          Kay             x
Tue. 28     Steedman         Kiefer          Abeille         Kay
Wed. 29     Rooth            Kiefer          Abeille         Kay
Thu. 30     Rooth            Karttunen       Abeille         x
Fri. 31     Rooth            Karttunen       x               x


PARTICIPATION
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A *limited number* of grants is available to students from Central and
Eastern Europe. The deadline for application is **DECEMBER 15, 1999**.

The participation fee for VMC 15 is USD 350, which includes tuition
fee, accommodation, and lunches. In order to ensure accommodation,
(paying) participants should register before **FEBRUARY 18, 2000*.

Please contact Mrs. Brdickova or Prof. Hajicova at the following address
for registration or further information.

                  Mrs. Libuse Brdickova
                  Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics
                  UFAL MFF UK
                  Malostranske nam. 25
                  CZ-11800 Praha 1
                  Czech Republic
                  {hajicova,brdickov}@ufal.mff.cuni.cz
                  (phone) ++420-2-2191-4278
                  (fax) ++420-2-2191-4309

Please visit our website via http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz


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