14.1904, Confs: General Linguistics/Germany

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Date:  Tue, 08 Jul 2003 10:26:57 +0000
From:  fellbaum at Princeton.EDU
Subject:  Collocations and idioms: linguistic, computational, and psycholinguistic perspectives

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Date:  Tue, 08 Jul 2003 10:26:57 +0000
From:  fellbaum at Princeton.EDU
Subject:  Collocations and idioms: linguistic, computational, and psycholinguistic perspectives


Collocations and idioms: linguistic, computational, and
psycholinguistic perspectives
Short Title: Collocations and idioms

Date: 18-SEP-03 - 20-SEP-03
Location: Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Berlin, Germany
Contact: Ralf Wolz
Contact Email: wolz at bbaw.de
Meeting URL: http://www.bbaw.de/forschung/kollokationen/index.html

Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics

Meeting Description:

The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Berlin will host a
conference on

''Collocations and idioms: linguistic, computational, and
psycholinguistic perspectives''
September 18-20, 2003

Magnus-Haus, Am Kupfergraben, Berlin-Mitte

The conference features invited speakers only (see program below).
Please do not submit an abstract. Everyone is invited to attend.

  ************************************************
  Attendance at the conference is free of charge,
  but registration by July 20, 2003 is requested
  Please reply to wolz at bbaw.de
  ************************************************


Thursday Sept. 18

1:45 PM: opening

2-3 Dmitri Dobrovolskij, Moscow University
    Idiom Analysis and the Theory of Conventional Figurative Language

2-3 Dirk Geeraerts, University of Leuven
    The interaction of metaphor and metonymy in composite expressions

Coffee break 3-3:30

3:30-4:30 Wolfgang Teubert, University of Birmingham (UK)
          Units of meaning, translation units and parallel corpora


4:30-5:30 Brigitte Krenn, Austrian Research Institute for
          Artificial Intelligence, Vienna
          From n-grams to collocations: computational approaches to
          collocation identification - some problems and solutions


5:30-6:30 Christine Roemer, Unversity of Jena (tentative)

Reception

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FRI

9-10  Annette Sabban, Hildesheim University
      Ways of looking and the look of one's eyes:
      collocations and stereotypical descriptions in two corpora
      (German, French)

10-11 Patrick Hanks, Brandeis/Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
      The syntagmatics of metaphor

Coffee 11-11:30

11:30-12:30 Angelika Storrer, Dortmund University
            German support verb constructions: A corpus-based
            investigation

Lunch 12:30-2

2-3  Manfred Bierwisch, Humboldt University, Berlin
     Title TBA

3-4  Stefan Mueller, University of Bremen
     Idioms and Fronting

Coffee 4-4:30

4:30 - 6:30 Wolfgang-Paul-Preis Project: Idioms and Collocations
            in the German Language of the 20th Century
            (Short presentations by members of the project)

19:30 Reception and Concert in the ''Alte Museum''
      hosted by the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation

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SAT

8:45-9:45  Cristina Cacciari, University of Modena
           A psycholinguistic point of view: are idioms really
           relevant for theories of language comprehension and
           production?

9:45-10:45 Simone Sprenger, Max-Planck Institute, Nijmegen
           Lexical access during idiom production: the superlemma
           theory

10:45-11 Coffee break

11-12  Judy Kegl, University of Southern Maine
       Why are there so few idioms in American Sign Language?

12-1 Charles Fillmore, University of California at Berkeley
     A maximalist view of multi-word expressions

Closing

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The conference is sponsored by the Wolfgang Paul Prize Program
of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation.

http://www.bbaw.de/forschung/kollokationen/index.html

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