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ifla.uni-stuttgart.de>_______________ IPrA 2000 7th International Pragmatics Conference BUDAPEST Hungary July 9-14, 2000 _______________ CALL FOR PAPERS We invite contributions on our panel Rethinking Sequentiality: conversational interaction meets mental representation Sequentiality is central to any theory of pragmatics, discourse, conversation and context. It is manifest in the recontextualized conversation-analytic principle of adjacency, i.e. adjacency pair, adjacency position, adjacency relation, and turn-taking, as well as in the Gricean notion of dovetailed, i.e. communicative contributions are linked by one or more common goals manifest in prior and succeeding talk (Grice 1975, 48). However, this local sequentiality may be `globalized' and adapted to social settings and thus to larger units of investigation, such as genre and its classification in opening, closing and topical-organization sections. The resulting interrelatedness holds for both local and global coherence (De Beaugrande & Dressler 1981; Gernsbacher & Giv�n 1995; Halliday & Hasan 1976; Tannen 1993), which may be interpreted from an interactional-organization viewpoint with regard to sequential phenomena as well as from micro- and macro-semantic perspectives with regard to discourse topic, sub-topics, and cataphoric and anaphoric references. The focus on interaction between speakers, text and context inherent to all above approaches to sequentiality has its counterpart in descriptions and models of the respective mental structures and processes within the individual speaker`s mind. While some approaches to cognitive speech production completely reject the view that context determines selection of words (Marslen-Wilson & Tyler 1980), others restrict the influence of situation knowledge to the level of pre-conceptualization, denying it any further influence in later phases of speech production (e.g. Levelt 1989). However, frame, script and schemata theories suggest that a large amount of preferred sequences are mentally stored to constrain inferences and thus reduce cognitive effort (cf. Abelson 1976; Langer 1989). Yet interactively oriented models of discourse understanding, such as the `construction-integration model' developed by Kintsch (1988) accommodate both permanently existing and on-line context-generated structures. The aim of this panel is to encourage interdisciplinary discussion on the phenomenon of sequentiality / adjacency to further our understanding of the complex processes involved in producing and understanding conversational sequences. We invite contributions from among discourse and conversation analysis, ethnography of speaking, Gricean theory, psycholinguistics and research into the mental lexicon. Presentations shall cover theoretical approches, analyses of converational data and experimental studies. If you're interested, please get in touch with us as soon as possible (not later than 25th October 1999) Anita Fetzer Christiane Meierkord Universit�t Stuttgart P�dagogische Hochschule Erfurt Institut f�r Linguistik: Anglistik Institut f�r Anglistik und Amerikanistik Keplerstr. 17 Nordh�user Str. 63 D-70174 Stuttgart, Germany 99089 Erfurt, Germany Tel: ++49-711-121-3115/3120 Tel.: ++49 - 361 - 7371523 Fax: ++49-711-121-3122 Fax: ++49 - 361 - 7371914 e-mail: anitaMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr>ATALA Workshop Representation and Treatment of Syntactic Ambiguity in Natural Language Processing ------------ Paris, Piti�-Salp�tri�re January 29, 2000 http://atoll.inria.fr/~clerger/ATALA2000.html ------------ CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS There are several approaches making it possible to treat syntactic ambiguity: one can for example decide to apply disambiguation as soon as possible, in particular using statistical methods. One can on the contrary choose to delay to the maximum the disambiguation and to maintain the ambiguity, possibly until the end of the processing. These two approaches are not necessarily contradictory. However, the problem remains very difficult to solve and many of the methods proposed amount to little more than the traditional enumeration. Factorizing the information (for example in using parse forests) can from this point of view play a very significant role and even lead to effective solutions. The goal of this workshop is to propose an overview of the current techniques for the representation and the treatment of syntactic ambiguity in natural language processing. INVITED SPEAKERS - -------------- . Bernard Lang INRIA . David Weir Cognitive and Computing Science University of Sussex COMMUNICATIONS - ------------ The proposals for a communication will be selected on the basis of a 1 page abstract. Abstracts will be sent by e-mail (preferably) or surface mail at: pbMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue