Date: 03-May-2005
From: sandro Zucchi <alessandro.zucchi unimi.it>
Subject: Sign Language Linguistics and the Application of Information Technology to Sign Languages
Sign Language Linguistics and the Application of Information Technology to Sign Languages Short Title: SLL&IT Date: 22-Jun-2005 - 24-Jun-2005 Location: Milan, Italy Contact: Sandro Zucchi Contact Email: alessandro.zucchi unimi.it Meeting URL: http://filosofia.dipafilo.unimi.it/~zucchi/signavolant.html Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories Language Family(ies): Sign Language Meeting Description: The Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca and the Università degli Studi di Milano are pleased to announce that they will host a conference on Sign language linguistics and the application of information technology to sign languages. The conference will take place in Milan from June 22nd to June 24th 2005. The first part of the conference will be devoted to contributions to the study of sign languages based on formal frameworks (or relevant to such frameworks). The second part will be devoted to contributions illustrating current research on applications of information technology to sign languages. This call for papers concerns *only* the first part of the conference. The organizing committee (Carlo Cecchetto, Carlo Geraci, Sandro Zucchi) QUA_SI, UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO-BICOCCA DIPARTIMENTO DI FILOSOFIA, UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO SIGNA VOLANT Sign Language Linguistics and the Application of Information Technology to Sign Languages. Le lingue dei segni: teoria linguistica e applicazioni delle tecnologie dell'informazione. 22 GIUGNO UNIVERSITÀ DI MILANO-BICOCCA EDIFICIO U-6, PIAZZA DELL'ATENEO NUOVO, 1, MILANO 9,30-10,00 Registration 10,00-11,00 Carol Neidle (Boston University) ''Another look at some non-manual expressions of syntactic information in American Sign Language'' 11,00-12,00 Josep Quer (ICREA and University of Barcelona) ''The behaviour of indexicals in role shift'' 12,00-12,30 Coffee Break 12,30-13,30 Roland Pfau (University of Amsterdam) ''Phrasal layers and prosodic spreading in sign languages'' 13,30-15,00 Lunch Break 15,00-16,00 Chiara Branchini (University of Urbino/Boston University) and Caterina Donati (University of Urbino) ''The Chinese trail: restrictive relative clauses in Italian Sign Language'' 16,00-17,00 Kearsy Cormier (Centre for Deaf Studies, University of Bristol), Adam Schembri (Renwick College, University of Newcastle), and Martha E. Tyrone (Haskins Laboratories) ''One hand or two: A cross-linguistic analysis of the non-native lexicon in signed languages'' 17,00-17,30 Coffee Break 17,30-18,30 Ulrike Zeshan (Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen) ''Sign language typology and formal approaches to sign language research'' 23 GIUGNO UNIVERSITÀ DI MILANO-BICOCCA EDIFICIO U-6, PIAZZA DELL'ATENEO NUOVO, 1, MILANO 10,00-11,00 Diane Brentari (Purdue University) ''A cross-linguistic analysis of sign language classifier constructions'' 11,00-12,00 Stephen Parkhurst (Summer Institute of Linguistics, Spain) ''Optimality theory and formational constraints for signed languages'' 12,00-12,30 Coffee Break 12,30-13,30 Markus Steinbach (University of Mainz) ''Morphosyntactic aspects of agreement in sign languages'' 13,30-14,45 Lunch Break 14,45-15,45 Christian Vogler (Gallaudet University) ''Computer-based analysis of American Sign Language'' 15,45-16,25 Thomas Hanke (University of Hamburg) ''Towards sign language resources: From empirical data to an HPSG lexicon for German Sign Language'' 16,25-17,00 Coffee Break 17,00- 17,40 Galini Sapountzaki (University of Thessaly), Eleni Efthimiou (Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens), and Stavroula-Evita Fotinea (Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens) ''Synthesis of Greek Sign Language inflectional and syntactic movement'' 17,40-18,40 Carol Neidle (Boston University) and Dimitris Metaxas (Rutgers University), ''Linguistically-based computational methods for American Sign Language recognition'' 24 GIUGNO UNIVERSITÀ DI MILANO AULA MAGNA, VIA FESTA DEL PERDONO 7, MILANO 10-10,40 Claudio Baj and Marco Consolati (Cooperativa Alba, Turin) ''Metodo C'è. A multimedial tool to learn Italian Sign Language'' 10,40 - 11,30 Maria Mertzani (University of Bristol) ''Initial Perceptions of Computer-Mediated Communication Technology in Sign Language Teaching and Learning'' 11,30-12,00 Coffee Break 12,00 - 12,40 Boris Lenseigne and Patrice Dalle (IRIT-UPS) ''A Tool for Sign Language Analysis through Signing Space representation'' 12,40-15,00 Lunch Break 15,00-15,40 Trude Schermer (Dutch Sign Language Centre, ) ''Sign Language planning and policies: the role of a national sign language database'' 15,40-16,30 Michiko Kaneko (Bristol University) ''Visual density in the rhythmic structure of sign language poetry'' 16,30-17,15 Coffee Break PLENARY TALK/COMUNICAZIONE CONCLUSIVA 17,15-18,15 Harlan Lane (North Eastern University, Boston) ''Ethnicity, Ethics, and the Deaf-World'' ''Etnicità, etica e il mondo dei Sordi'' OFFICIAL LANGUAGES OF THE CONFERENCE The participation to the conference is free. The official languages of the first two days of the conference (June 22 and June 23) are English and International Sign Language. Interpreting services will be provided for these two languages. The official languages of the last day of the conference (June 24) are English, International Sign Language and Italian Sign Language. Interpreting services will be provided for these three languages. WEB SITE OF THE CONFERENCE http://filosofia.dipafilo.unimi.it/~zucchi/signavolant.html
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