LINGUIST List 6.1721

Fri Dec 8 1995

Confs: Lingua Galega, Functions of discourse

Editor for this issue: Ann Dizdar <dizdartam2000.tamu.edu>

Directory

1. "Xulio C. Sousa Fernandez", I Congreso Internacional da Lingua Galega
2. "Dr. John Bateman", Final Programme: Dandelion workshop on functions of discourse (Please

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 INSTITUTO DA LINGUA GALEGA
 25 anos
				1971-1996
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The Instituto da Lingua Galega is pleased to announce its First
International Congress of Galician Language to be held Setember 16-20,
1996 at the University of Santiago de Compostela.

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 A LINGUA GALEGA
 HISTORIA E ACTUALIDADE

 1996

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For more information (registration and papers) please visit our

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 	 http://www.usc.es/~ilgas/congreso.html





 Instituto da Lingua Galega
 Praza da Universidade
 Santiago de Compostela
 A Corunna
	Spain
 Email: ilgsecusc.es


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 LOCAL AND GLOBAL PHENOMENA IN DISCOURSE:
 THE `DANDELION' APPROACH
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 15th-16th December 1995


 IPSI - Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute
 GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology

 Dolivostr. 15, DARMSTADT, GERMANY
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The ESPRIT Basic Research Action DANDELION (Discourse Functions and
Discourse Representations: An Empirically and Linguistically Motivated
Interdisciplinarily-Oriented Approach to Natural Language Texts) will
be holding its final project workshop and review to mark the end of
the project.

DANDELION has developed theories of a number of phenomena in discourse
including coherence relations, information structuring, thematic
development, causal and contrastive connectives, aspect and text
structure, and discourse functions of NP types. In parallel, it has
produced and enhanced computational resources for the investigation
and development of discourse theories.

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Programme

FRIDAY DECEMBER 15, 1995

09:30-09:45 Coffee
09:45-10:00 Opening remarks (Gisela Redeker, Amsterdam)
10:00-10:45 Formal versus functional paradigms: the DANDELION
	 approach (Jo Calder, Edinburgh)
10:45-11:30 Discourse functions of NP-anaphora: demonstratives
 (Wietske Vonk, Nijmegen)
11:30-12:00 [Demonstration] NP-anaphora: demonstratives
 (Leon Verschuur, Tilburg)

12:00-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:15 Information structure in discourse
 (Julia Lavid, Madrid)
14:15-15:00 Theme in German: discourse constraints on grammatical
	 selections(Wiebke Ramm & Claudia Villiger, Saarbruecken)
15:00-15:30 [Demonstration] Theme in German
 (Wiebke Ramm & Elke Teich, Saarbruecken)

15:30-15:45 Tea / coffee

15:45-16:30 An empirically motivated bi-stratal approach to coherence
 relations (John Bateman & Klaas Jan Rondhuis, Darmstadt)
16:30-17:15 Coherence relations and connectives (causal versus
	 contrastive) (Leonoor Oversteegen, Tilburg)


SATURDAY DECEMBER 16, 1995

10:00-10:45 [Demonstrations]
 KPML: a generic multilingual text generation environment
 (John Bateman, IPSI)
 TATOE: Text analysis tool with object encoding: a workbench
 for supporting empirical discourse analysis.
 (Melina Alexa, IPSI).
10:45-11:30 A constraint-based grammar of English temporal
	 connectives (Janet Hitzeman, Edinburgh)
11:30-12:00 [Demonstration] English temporal connectives
 (Janet Hitzeman, Edinburgh)

12:00-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:15 The DANDELION Workbench (Jo Calder, Edinburgh)
14:15-14:45 [Demonstration] The DANDELION Workbench
	 (Jo Calder, Edinburgh)
14:45-16:00 Discussion: Where to go from here