12.1358, Confs: Comp and Theoretical Ling - Ireland

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Subject: 12.1358, Confs: Comp and Theoretical Ling - Ireland

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Date:  Wed, 16 May 2001 15:57:15 +0100
From:  vogel at hero.cs.tcd.ie
Subject:   Comp and Theoretical Linguistics/ Dublin, Ireland

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Date:  Wed, 16 May 2001 15:57:15 +0100
From:  vogel at hero.cs.tcd.ie
Subject:   Comp and Theoretical Linguistics/ Dublin, Ireland


  |  London-Dublin Computational and Theoretical Linguistics  |
  |                     Colloquium 2001                       |


Following on from a London-Dublin Colloquium on Computational and
Theoretical Linguistics at King's College, University of London in
April 2000, this year Dublin City University and Trinity College
Dublin are jointly hosting the Colloquium in Dublin.

The colloquium takes place Friday, May 18th (in a talk shared with
another Dublin seminar series), Saturday, May 19th and Sunday May
20th. Programme, abstracts, locations and times are included below.

Participation is free. A dinner is planned for Saturday evening (cost
punts 25 approx. + drinks). Please contact vogel at wilde.cs.tcd.ie asap
if you'd like to be included in the dinner reservation.

All welcome!

Tim Fernando (TCD), Josef van Genabith (DCU) and  Carl Vogel (TCD)

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PROGRAMME:

Friday, May 18th, Room Q220, Business School, top floor, Dublin City University

16:00 Prelude (Shared with the Dublin Computational Linguistics
      Research Seminar DCLRS 2000/1 DCU TCD UCD --
      http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/dclrs/)

      Dr. Wilfried Meyer-Viol and Prof. Ruth Kempson, Department of
      Philosophy King's College London

      "Dynamic Syntax.... What goes First?"

Saturday, May 19th, DCU, Q220, Business School, top floor

09:50 Welcome & Introduction

10:00 Prof. Ruth Kempson, King's College London, Department of
      Philosophy: "Tree Growth .... And what goes last

10:45 Dr. Wilfried Meyer-Viol, King's College London, Department of
      Philosophy: "Dynamic Syntax and Tree-Automata"?

11:30 coffee

11:45 Dr. John Saeed, Trinity College Dublin, Centre for Language and
      Communication Studies: "The interaction between syntax
      and information structure in Somali, a morphological focus
      system"

12:30 lunch

14:00 Dr. Jonathan Ginzburg, King's College London, Department of
      Computer Science: "Defeasibly Structuring Facts"

14:45 Dr. Fintan Costello, Dublin City University, School of Computer
      Applications: "Red-headed butchers, skilful violinists, fake
      surgeons, and pet fish: The semantics of membership in noun-noun
      and adjective-noun conjunctions."

15:30 tea

15:45 Dr. Carl Vogel, Trinity College Dublin, Department of Computer
      Science, "Simulating the Emergence of Meaning and
      Understanding."

16:30 Dr. Josef van Genabith, Dublin City University, School of
      Computer Applications: "Experiments in Structure Preserving
      Grammar Compaction"



Sunday, May 20th, DCU, L2.21, Computer Applications, top floor

10:00 Dr. Julie Berndsen, University College Dublin, Department of
      Computer Science, "Phonological Constraints in Speech
      Technology"

10:45 Dr. Martin Emms, Trinity College Dublin, Department of Computer
      Science, "In Defence of Detail"

11:30 coffee

11:45 Prof. Shalom Lappin, King's College London, Department of
      Computer Science: "A Framework for the Hyperintensional
      Semantics of Natural Language with Two Implementations"

12:30 Dr. Tim Fernando, Trinity College Dublin, Department of Computer
      Science, "Situations and Alternatives"

13:15 plenary session

13:30 lunch


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