17.1411, Confs: Linguistic Theories/Osnabr ück, Germany

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Date: 03-May-2006
From: Graham Katz < gkatz at uos.de >
Subject: Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics 2 

	
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Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 17:09:02
From: Graham Katz < gkatz at uos.de >
Subject: Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics 2 
 



Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics 2 
Short Title: QITL-2 

Date: 01-Jun-2006 - 02-Jun-2006 
Location: Osnabrück, Germany 
Contact: Stefan Evert 
Contact Email: stefan.evert at uos.de 
Meeting URL: http://www.cogsci.uos.de/~qitl/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories 

Meeting Description: 

The second conference on Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics (QITL-2) will be hosted in June 2006 by the Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Germany. 

Invited speakers: Tom Wasow (Stanford), Suzanne Stevenson (Toronto) 

Thursday 1.June.2006

09:00 - 09:20	
Introduction
09:20 - 10:20	
Tom Wasow (Stanford University) 
t.b.a. 
10:20 - 10:40	
Coffee break
10:40 - 11:20	
Markus Bader & Jana Häussler:
Weighting the constraints on word-order variation in German
11:20 - 12:00   
Kie Zuraw:
A frequency effect as conditioned by phonological grammar
12:00 - 14:00	
Lunch break
14:00 - 15:20	
Anke Lüdeling, Marco Baroni & Stefan Evert:
Need and competition: Deconstructing quantitative productivity
14:40 - 15:20   
Isabella Chiari:
Lexical productivity: Theoretical issues and quantitative measures
15:20 - 15:50	
Coffee break
15:50 - 16:30	
Marco Baroni, Emiliano Guevara, Vito Pirrelli & Eros Zanchetta:
Using corpus evidence to discover the grammatical structure of compounds
16:30 - 17:10   
Ingo Plag, Gero Kunter, Maria Braun & Sabine Lappe:
Modeling stress assignment in English noun-noun compounds: A quantitative perspective
17:10 - 17:30	
Afternoon tea
17:30 - 18:30	
Burghard Rieger (Trier) 
t.b.a.

Friday 2.June.2006

09:00 - 09:40	
Geoffrey Sampson & Anna Babarczy:
Definitional and human constraints on parsing performance
09:40 - 10:20   
Daniel Wiechmann:
Sense-contingent lexical bias and its role for early parsing decisions
10:20 - 10:40	
Coffee break
10:40 - 11:20	
Gert De Sutter, Dirk Speelman & Dirk Geeraerts:
Descriptive, methodological and theoretical issues in syntactic variation research: A multivariate corpus analysis of word order variation in Dutch clause final verb clusters
11:20 - 12:00   
Heiner Drenhaus, Joanna Blaszczak & Juliane Schütte:
Simple downward entailment is not strong enough: An ERP study on negative polarity items (NPI) in German
12:00 - 14:00	
Lunch break
14:00 - 14:40	
Lilja Øvrelid:
Exploring the distribution of animacy: Experiments on Norwegian
14:40 - 15:20   
Carita Paradis, Caroline Willners, Simone Löhndorf & Lynne Murphy:
Quantifying aspects of antonym canonicity in English and Swedish: textual and experimental
15:20 - 15:50	
Coffee break
15:50 - 16:30	
Antti Arppe 
Complex phenomena deserve complex explanations: Choosing how to THINK in Finnish
16:30 - 17:10   
Yves Peirsman:
Quantitative approaches to metonymy
17:10 - 17:30	
Afternoon tea
17:30 - 18:30	
Suzanne Stevenson (University of Toronto) 
Statistical Analysis of Metaphorical Uses of  Verbs





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