LINGUIST List 13.1965

Tue Jul 23 2002

Confs: Update: Lang, Brain, & Computation

Editor for this issue: Marie Klopfenstein <marielinguistlist.org>

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1. Anna Maria Di Sciullo, Modified LBC Conference Program

LANGUAGE, BRAIN AND COMPUTATION
University of Venice 
October 3-5, 2002

Please consult our web sites :
http://www.asymmetryproject.uqam.ca
http://www.nlplab.uqam.ca


Friday, October 4		
COMPUTATION	
			
9:00-9:45		
Robert Berwick, MIT
Invited speaker	 
Minimalist Machinery: Computation at the Interfaces
9:45-10:15		
Sandiway Fong, NEC Research Institute	
Computation with Probes and Goals: A Parsing Perspective
BREAK	
10:30-11:00		
Manuel Espa�ol-Echevarria, Universit� Laval	
Strict Asymmetry and Rhetorical Structure Theory
11:00-11:30		
Anna Maria Di Sciullo, Universit� du Qu�bec � Montr�al	
Asymmetry and Minimalist Parsing
11:30-12:00		
Henk Harkema, Universit� du Qu�bec � Montr�al 	
Parsing Minimalist Languages
12:00-12:30		
Abdelkader Fassi Fehri, Abderrezzak Tourabi and Salim Rami, Mohammed V University-Souissi IERA	
Arabic Verb Conjugation Paradigms: A Computational Treatment
LUNCH	
14:30-15:00		
Philippe Blache, LPL-CNRS, Universit� de Provence	
Towards an Account of Variability
15:00-15:30		
Sylviane Cardey and Peter Greenfield, Centre Tesni�re, Universit� de Franche-Comt�	
Systemic Language Analysis and Processing
15:30-16:00		
Rodolfo Delmonte, Universit� Ca' Foscari	
Linguistically Based Shallow Parsing: Parameterizing Ambiguity
BREAK	
16:15-16:45		
Alan Bernardi and Magda Fusaro, Bell Canada 	
Natural Languages: A Challenge to Electronic Communications
16:45-17:15		 
Sylvain Falardeau, Delphes Technologies International	
Configuration-Based Information Retrieval Demo
17:15-17:45		
Omar Larouk, Ecole Nationale Sup�rieure des Sciences de l'Information et des Biblioth�ques, France	
Evaluation Multimodal Interfaces of Web-Pages with Semantics of Natural Language
17:45-18:15		
Alain Clavet, Commissariat aux Langues officielles, Gouvernement du Canada	
Les langues officielles du Canada: Pr�sence sur Internet
18:30-19:30		
Annual Meeting of the Federation on Natural Language Processing		
 
Saturday, October 5		
BRAIN	
			
9:00-9:45		
Yosef Grodzinsky, Tel Aviv University and McGill University
Invited speaker	
Syntactic Movement: A Perspective from Intact and Lesioned Brains
9:45-10:15		
Kjetil Berntzen, University of Bergen and Arild Hestvik, CUNY	
V-Movement and Question Production in Norwegian Broca's Aphasia
BREAK	
10:30-11:00		
Frank Burchert, Ria De Bleser, Katharina Sonntag, University of Potsdam	
Impaired Comprehension of Syntactic Dependencies in German
11:00-11:30		
Sharon Armon-Lotem and Idit Avram, Bar Llan University	
The Autonomous Contribution of Syntax and Pragmatics to the Acquisition of the Hebrew Definite Article
11:30-12:00		
Helen Goodluck, University of Ulster and University of Ottawa	
Processing Discourse-Linked Phrases: Linguistic, Psycholinguistic and Perceptual Effects
12:00-12:30		
Ronnie Wilbur, Purdue University	
Evidence from American Sign Languages for Asymmetries in UG
LUNCH	
14:30-15:00		
Matt Bauer, Georgetown University	
Prosodic Cues During Online Processing of Speech: Evidence from Stress Shift in American English
15:00-15:30		
Ning Pan, University of Louisiana at Lafayette and William Snyder, University of Connecticut	
Acquisition of Phonological Empty Categories: A Case Study of Early Child Dutch