Programme
Time | Monday, August 20 Chair: Livia Polanyi |
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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 |
Klaus von Heusinger (University of Konstanz, Germany): Intonational Phrasing and Discourse Segmentation
Valéria Molnár (Lund University, Sweden): Contrast - from a contrastive perspective