Tuesday, October 15th

  09:00 - 09:20 - Registration - CIRM - Main Hall

  09:20 - 09:30 - Opening - Conference Room

 

  09:30 - 10:30 - Invited Talk 

    Philippe Blache What makes language processing difficult or easy? (abstract, slides)

• 10:30 - 10:45 - Tea / Coffee Break

 

  10:45 - 12:45  - Cluster I

 o  10:45 - 11:25 - Amalia Todirascu, Thomas François, Nuria Gala, Cédric Fairon, Anne-Laure Ligozat and Delphine Bernhard.

Coherence and Cohesion for the Assessment of Text Readability. (abstract, slides)

                                                      Towards a Cognitive-Linguistic Reconstruction of "Mental Maps'' from Ancient Texts. The example of Dionysios Periegetes.(abstract, slides)

•  12:05 - 12:45 - Michael Zock and Debela Tesfaye
  

 

• 12:45 - 14:30 - Lunch Break

 

  14:30 - 18:45  - Clusters II  +  III
 
            o  14:30 - 15:10 - Bruno Mery and Christian Retore.

  Semantic Types, Lexical Sorts and Classifiers. (abstract, slides)

  o  15:10 - 15:50 - Olivier Picard, Mélanie Lord, Alexandre Blondin-Massé, Odile Marcotte and Stevan Harnad

  Hidden Structure and Function in the Lexicon. (abstract, slides)

•   15:50 - 16:30 - Reinhard Rapp.
  

   From Stimulus to Associations and Back. (abstract)

 

•   16:30 - 16:45 - Tea / Coffee Break

 o   16:45 - 17:25 - Izabela Gatkowska, Michael Korzycki and Wieslaw Lubaszewski.

  Can Human Association Norm Evaluate Latent Semantic Analysis ? (abstract, slides)

•   17:25 - 18:05 - Ulrike Glavitsch and Klaus Simon.

  A Cognition-Oriented Approach to Fundamental Frequency Estimation. (abstract, slides)

       o   18:05 - 18:45 - Eva Lasarcyk, Charlotte Wollermann, Bernhard Schröder and Ulrich Schade.

  On the Modelling of Prosodic Cues in Synthetic Speech – What Are the Effects on Perceived Uncertainty and Naturalness?  (abstract, slides)

•   18:45 - End of session

 

Wednesday, October 16th

 

  09:00 - 11:00  - Cluster IV

 

       o   09:00 - 09:40 - Nabil Khoufi, Souhir Louati, Chafik Aloulou and Lamia Hadrich Belguith.

  Supervised Learning Model for Parsing Arabic Language. (abstract, slides)

•   09:40 - 10:20 - Simon Clematide and Manfred Klenner

  Disambiguation of the Semantics of German Prepositions: a Case Study. (abstract, slides)

       o    10:20 - 11:00 - Irene Russo, Irene De Felice, Francesca Frontini, Fahad Khan and Monica Monachini.

   (Fore)seeing actions in objects. Acquiring distinctive affordances from language. (abstract, slides)

 

•  11:00 - 11:15 - Tea / Coffee Break

 

  11:15 - 12:35  - Cluster V

 

• 11:15 - 11:55 - Rodolfo Delmonte, Daniela Gîfu and Rocco Tripodi.

Extracting Opinion and Factivity from Italian political discourse. (abstract, slides)

• 11:55 - 12:35 - Francisco Rangel and Paolo Rosso.

Use of Language and Author Profiling: Identification of Gender and Age. (abstract, slides)

• 12:35 - Closure