REFERENCE WORKSHOP

Program

16th November 2017

13.45-14.00

Welcome and opening remarks

14.00-15.00

Francois Recanati, Insitut Jean Nicod, Paris: "Direct Reference"

15.00-16.00

Maria Aloni, University of Amsterdam: "Indexicals under intensional operators"

16.00-16.30

coffee break

16.30-17.30

Andreas Brocher, Cologne University: "Towards a dual process model of the comprehension of definite and indefinite noun phrases"

17.30-18.30

Remi van Trijp, Sony Computer Science Laboratory:  "Grounding referential expressions: a computational model in Fluid Construction Grammar"

17th November 2017

  9.00-10.00

Paul Dekker, University of Amsterdam: "Talk about things non-existent"

10.00-10.30

coffee break

10.30-11.30

Petra Schumacher, Cologne University: "Referential Processing electrified"

11.30-12.30

Kees van Deemter, University of Aberdeen: "Computational models of referring: advancing the state of the Art"

12.30-14.00

Lunch

14.00-15.00

Anna-Lisa Vollmer,  CITEC, Bielefeld: "Co-constructing Meaning: Pragmatic Frames in teaching/learning interaction"

15.00-15.30

coffee break

15.30-16.30

Robert Van Valin, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf: "Coding reference in articles: Siouan article systems"

16.30-17.30

Eliot Michaelson, King's College London: "Towards a Grand Unified Theory of Reference"

17.30-18.00

Concluding remarks