Second International Workshop on Computational Semantics
January 8-10, 1997, Tilburg, The Netherlands
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The Tilburg University Department of Linguistics will host the
Second International Workshop on Computational Semantics,
which will take place in Tilburg, The Netherlands, from
8 - 10 January 1997. The aim of the workshop is to
bring together researchers involved in all aspects of the
computational semantics of natural language.
PROGRAM
Wednesday 8 January
08.30 - 09.15 Registration
09.15 - 09.25 Opening
09.25 - 10.10 Manfred Pinkal (Saarbr"ucken): invited talk
10.10 - 10.45 Frank Richter & Manfred Sailer (T"ubingen):
Underspecified Semantics in HPSG
10.45 - 11.05 break
11.05 - 11.40 Robin Cooper (G"oteborg): Using situations to
reason about the interpretation of speech events
11.40 - 12.15 Jonathan Ginzburg (Jerusalem): Semantically-based
Elliptic resolution with Syntactic Presuppositions
12.15 - 13.15 lunch break
13.15 - 13.50 Michael Schiehlen (Stuttgart): Disambiguation of
underspecified discourse representation structures
under anaphoric constraints
13.50 - 14.25 Susann Luperfoy (McLean [Virginia]): An
implementation of DRT and file change semantics for
real-time interpretation of total and partial anaphora
14.25 - 15.00 Emiel Krahmer & Paul Piwek (Eindhoven):
Presupposition Projection as Proof Construction
15.00 - 16.00 break and poster session 1:
N. Asher/D. Hardt/J. Busquets, W. Castelnovo,
M. Egg/A. Feldhaus, L. Kievit, M. Masuko, W. Skut
16.00 - 16.35 Josef Van Genabith (Dublin) & Richard Crouch (Malvern):
How to Glue a Donkey to an f-structure, or
Porting a Dynamic Meaning Representation into LFG's
Linear Logic Based Glue-Language Semantics
16.35 - 17.10 Allan Ramsay (Manchester): Dynamic and
Underspecified Interpretation
without Dynamic or Underspecified Logic
17.10 - 17.45 Wilfried Meyer Viol, Rodger Kibble, Ruth Kempson & Dov Gabbay
(London): Indefinites as Epsilon Terms:
A Labelled Deduction Account
17.45 Reception
Thursday 9 January
09.00 - 09.45 Lenhart Schubert (Rochester): Dynamic skolemization
(invited talk)
09.45 - 10.20 Nicholas Asher (Austin) & Tim Fernando (Stuttgart):
Labeling representations for effective disambiguation
10.20 - 10.40 break
10.40 - 11.15 Alice Kyburg (Oshkosh) & Michael Morreau (Washington):
Vague Utterances and Context Change
11.15 - 11.50 Birgit Hamp (T"ubingen): Semantics of the German
Future Form in Discourse: a DRT-based Approach
11.50 - 12.25 Matthew Stone (Philadelphia) & Daniel Hardt (Villanova):
Dynamic Discourse Referents for Tense and Modals
12.25 - 13.30 lunch break
13.30 - 14.05 Luca Dini & Vittorio Di Tomaso (Pisa):
Linking Theory and Lexical Ambiguity: The Case of
Italian Motion Verbs
14.05 - 14.40 Anna Goy & Leonardo Lesmo (Torino): Integrating
lexical semantics and pragmatics: The case of
Italian communication verbs
14.40 - 15.15 Sabine Reinhard (T"ubingen): A Disambiguation
Approach for German Compounds with Deverbal Head
15.15 - 16.15 break and poster session 2:
C. Fox, A. Frank, E. Klipple/J. Gurney, C. Verspoor, R. Zuber
16.15 - 16.50 Aaron N. Kaplan & Lenhart Schubert (Rochester):
Simulative Inference in a Computational Model of Belief
16.50 - 17.25 Wlodek Zadrozny (Yorktown):
Minimum description length and compositionality
17.25 - 18.00 Rens Bod, Remko Bonnema & Remko Scha (Amsterdam):
Data-Oriented Semantic Interpretation
18.30 Conference dinner
Friday 10 January
09.00 - 09.35 Marc Light (T"ubingen) & Lenhart Schubert (Rochester):
Knowledge Representation for Lexical Semantics:
Is Standard First Order Logic Enough?
09.35 - 10.10 Patrick McGivern (Burnaby): Representing Generic
Bare Plurals in DRT
10.10 - 10.30 break
10.30 - 11.05 Frank Schilder (Edinburgh): Tree Discourse Grammars
or How to get attached to a discourse
11.05 - 11.40 Steffen Staab & Udo Hahn (Freiburg): A Semantic
Copying Model for Understanding Comparatives
11.40 - 12.25 Jerry Hobbs (SRI): A General Theory of Parallellism
and the Specific Case of VP-Ellipsis (invited talk)
12.25 Closing
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Mario Borillo, Harry Bunt (chair), Robin Cooper, Jan van Eijck,
Giacomo Ferrari, Erhard Hinrichs, Megumi Kameyama, Daniel Kayser,
Paul Mc Kevitt, John McCarthy, Reinhard Muskens, John Nerbonne,
Martha Palmer, Stanley Peters, Manfred Pinkal, Steve Pulman, James
Pustejovsky, Allan Ramsay, Uwe Reyle, Lenhart Schubert, Jerry Seligman,
Ronini Srihari, Mark Steedman, Enric Vallduvi, Wlodek Zadrozny
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Harry Bunt, Leen Kievit, Reinhard Muskens, Margriet Verlinden.
ORGANIZING SECRETARIAT
Anne Adriaensen
Tilburg University, Dept. of Linguistics
PO Box 90153
5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands
Phone: +31-13-466.30.60
Fax: +31-13-466.31.10
Email: Computational.Semantics@kub.nl
http://tkiwww.kub.nl:2080/tki/Docs/IWCS/iwcs.html
REGISTRATION
To register, fill out the form on the IWCS Registration Web page:
http://tkiwww.kub.nl:2080/tki/Docs/IWCS/iwcsappl.html
or fill out the registration form below and send it to the
organizing secretariat, either by email or regular mail.
The regular registration fee is 325 guilders.
This includes lunches and a reception on the first day.
Undergraduate students can participate for a reduced fee of
50 Dutch guilders.
The reduced fee covers only participation in the workshop sessions,
a copy of the proceedings, and refreshments in the breaks.
Extra copies of the proceedings can be purchased at the workshop or
ordered from the workshop secretariat for 40 Dutch guilders plus costs
of shipment.
It is also possible to make hotel reservations, see the hotel
reservation form on the IWCS Web pages, or the hotel reservation
form below.
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WORKSHOP REGISTRATION FORM
Second International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS II)
January 8, 9 and 10, 1997, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
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METHOD OF PAYMENT:
0 Bank transfer in Dutch guilders to bank account 45 50 46 042 of
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Tilburg University, Faculty of Arts; (in Dutch: KUB, Fac. Letteren)
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on arrival in Tilburg.
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Anne Adriaensen
Tilburg University, Dept. of Linguistics
P.O. Box 90153
5000 LE TILBURG, The Netherlands
Phone: +31-13-466.30.60, Fax : +31 13 466.31.10
Email: J.B.P.Adriaensen@kub.nl
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HOTEL RESERVATION FORM
Second International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS II)
January 8, 9 and 10, 1997
Tilburg University, The Netherlands
HOTEL INFORMATION
A number of rooms have been reserved at the following hotels:
0 Hotel Mercure (city center)
Dfl. 155,00 per night
0 Hotel Lindeboom (city center)
Dfl. 115,00 per night
0 Hotel De Postelse Hoeve (situated in the north of Tilburg)
Dfl. 130,00-150,00 per night
(Dfl. 117,00 in case of full hotel occupation)
* 5 minutes to the university by bus (lines 46,47)
* 10 minutes to the city center by bus (lines 41,42,127)
0 Hotel Central (city center)
Dfl. 60,00 per night
* very simple place
* All prices include breakfast
RESERVATION
Please make a hotel reservation for the following nights:
0 January ......... up until January .........1997
Your name:...........................................
Send this reservation form to:
Anne Adriaensen
Tilburg University, Dept. of Linguistics
P.O. Box 90153
5000 LE TILBURG, The Netherlands
Phone: +31-13-466.30.60
Fax : +31-13-466.31.10
Email: J.B.P.Adriaensen@kub.nl
-- Drs L.A. Kievit http://tkiwww.kub.nl:2080/tki/Faces/Lk/lk.html Linguistics Faculty, Room B 306, Tilburg University PO Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands Phone +31-13-4662970