ESSLLI 2001 Workshop
Information Structure, Discourse Structure and Discourse Semantics

Programme


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Time                                                                                      Monday, August 20                                                                     Chair: Livia Polanyi
17.00-17.35 Opening (Mark Steedman & Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová):
Two Dimensions of Information Structure in Relation to Discourse Structure and Discourse Semantics
17.35-18.10 Rick Nouwen (Utrecht University, the Netherlands): Complement set reference
18.10-18:45 Laurent Prévot (Université Paul Sabatier, France): Topic Structure in Route Explanation Dialogues
Time                                                                                      Tuesday, August 21                                                                     Chair: Eva Hajicová
17.00-18.10 Invited talk by Enric Vallduví (Dept de Traduccio, Universitat Pompeu Fabra): Fragments in Information Packaging
18.10-18:45 Svetlana McCoy (Boston University, USA):
Connecting Information and Discourse Structure Levels through "Kontrast:" Evidence from Colloquial Russian Particles -TO, ZHE, and VED'
Time                                                                                      Wednesday, August 22                                                                     Chair: tbd
17.00-17:35 Carla Umbach (Universitaet Leipzig, Germany): Relating Contrast and Contrastive Topic: a focus-semantic analysis of ``but''
17.35-18:10 Nobo Komagata (University of Pennsylvania, USA): Entangled Information Structure: Analysis of Complex Sentence Structures
18.10-18:45 Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová (University of the Saarland, Germany) and Bonnie Webber (Edinburgh University, UK):
Information Structure and the Semantics of ``otherwise''
Time                                                                                      Thursday, August 23                                                                     Chair: Hans Kamp
17.00-18.10 Invited talk by Livia Polanyi (Fuji-Xerox Palo Alto Laboratory): The Relationship of Information Structure to Discourse Structure
18.10-18:45 Massimo Poesio (University of Essex, UK) and Barbara di Eugenio (University of Illinois): Discourse Structure and Anaphoric Accessibility
20.00 ESSLLI Evening Lecture by Bonnie Webber
Time                                                                                      Friday, August 24                                                                     Chair: Johan Bos
17.00-17:35 Katherine Forbes, Eleni Miltsakaki, Rashmi Prasad, Anoop Sarkar, Aravind Joshi (all University of Pennsylvania, USA)
and Bonnie Webber (Edinburgh University, UK): Discourse Parsing with a Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammar (D-LTAG)
17.35-18:10 Jennifer Spenader (Stockholm University, Sweden):
Presupposition or Anaphora: Constraints on Choice of Factive Complements in Spoken Discourse
18:10-18:45 Closing Discussion

Reserve Papers

Jeanette K. Gundel (University of Minnesota) and Michael Hegarty (Louisiana State University) and Kaja Borthen (NTNU, Trondheim, Norway):
Information structure and pronominal reference to clausally introduced entities

Klaus von Heusinger (University of Konstanz, Germany): Intonational Phrasing and Discourse Segmentation

Valéria Molnár (Lund University, Sweden): Contrast - from a contrastive perspective


Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová
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