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soas.ac.uk>WORKSHOP Fragments: Studies in Ellipsis, Conjunction, and Gapping SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. SEPTEMBER 2-3, 1996 Monday, September 2, 1996 (Lecture Theatre) 9:30-10:30 Howard Lasnik On Pseudogapping: Some Curious Properties of a Curious Ellipsis Process. 10:30-11:30 Joseph Aoun and Elabbas Benmamoun Conjunction and Gapping in Arabic 11:30-12 Tea Break 12-1 Wynn Chao Pseudo-Gapping Revisited 1-2:30 Lunch Break 2:30-3:30 Stuart Shieber, Fernando Pereira, and Mary Dalrymple Interactions of Scope and Ellipsis 3:30-4:30 Dick Crouch Ellipsis and Glue Languages 4:30-5 Tea Break 5-6 Shalom Lappin An HPSG-Based Account of Antecedent Contained Ellipsis Tuesday, Septemer 3, 1996 (Lecture Theatre) 10-11 Anne Lobeck Ellipsis: Implications of Licensing and Identification 11-12 Jun Abe and Hiroto Hoshi Directionality of Movement in English and Japanese Ellipsis 12-2 Lunch Break 2-3 Edit Doron V Raising and VP Ellipsis 3-4 Hans Kamp Ellipsis and Disambiguation: When and in What Sense does Ell ipsis Interpretation preserve "Readings"? Hotels in the SOAS area. There are many hotels in the SOAS and British Museum area. For reasonably priced hotels (around stlg50/$75 a night) we suggest the President (0171-837-8844) and the Tavistock (0171-636-8383). Both hotels are very close to SOAS, the British Museum, and West End restaurants. Participants (other than the speakers) should make their reservations directly with the hotels. For information regarding the workshop please send email to: fragmentsMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
asel.udel.edu>Workshop on the Integration of Gesture in Language and Speech (WIGLS) in Newark, Delaware and Wilmington, Delaware October 7-8, 1996 Keynote speakers: Thomas Huang on Speech/Gesture-Based Human Computer Interface in Virtual Environments David McNeill on Language as Gesture (Gesture as Language) Sherman Wilcox on Hands and Bodies, Minds and Souls: Or, How a Sign Linguist Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Gesture WIGLS will be an interdisciplinary workshop examining the relationship between gesture and language, both spoken and signed. It is a satellite worskhop of the Fourth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 96), which will be held October 3-6, 1996, in Philadelphia, PA WIGLS schedule: October 7, 1996: 8:15 - 8:30 - welcome, opening remarks, by Lynn Messing 8:30 - 9:15 - keynote presentation: David McNeill 9:15 - 9:35 - discussion 9:35 - 10:00 - coffee break 10:00 - 11:55 - presentations and discussions Spontaneous Gestures Do Communicate, by Sotaro Kita Numbers on the Hands, by Arika Okrent Linguistic Features of Metaphoric Gestures, by Rebecca Webb What do Aphasic Patients' Facial Expressions & Gestures Reveal? by Agne s Roman 12:00 - 1:00 - lunch 1:00 - 1:45 - keynote presentation: Sherman Wilcox 1:45 - 2:05 - discussion 2:05 - 2:30 - coffee break 2:30 - 4:00 - presentations and discussions The Effect of Gesturing on Gestures, by Robert Dufour Towards an Action-centered Theory of Deixis, by Brenda Farnell The Intermingling of Gestures and Signs in Hearing Female's Conversatio ns, by Lynn Messing 4:00 - 4:15 - break 4:15 - 6:15 - 4 presentations and discussion Spontaneous Gesture and Sign, by Karen Naughton A Notational Basis for Integrated Accounts of Gesture and Speech, by William Edmondson Interactional Synchrony in Speech and Gesture across Crossed-Conversati ons, by Keli D. Yerian Deictic Gesture and Strategy in Second Language Narratives, by Marianne Gullberg October 8: 8:30 - 9:15 - Keynote presentation: Thomas Huang 9:15 - 9:35 - discussion 9:35 - 10:00 - coffee break 10:00 - 12:00 - presentations and discussions Computer Recognition of Auslan with PowerGloves, by Waleed Kadous The Automatic General Segmentation of Simple Non-Specific BSL Signs, by Philip A. Harling and Alistair D. N. Edwards A Multi-Stage Approach to Fingerspelling and Gesture Recognition, by Roman Erenshteyn and Pavel Laskov Hidden-Markov Model Based Recognition of Space-Time Hand-Gestures for Human-Computer Interaction, by Yanghee Nam and K. Wohn 12:00 - 1:00 - lunch 1:00 - 2:30 - presentations & discussion Interface Features Affecting Deixis Production, by Antonella De Angeli, Walter Gerbino, and Daniela Petrelli Gestural Prosody in Man-Machine Task-Oriented Dialogues, by Nadia Bella lem and Laurent Romary Computer Recognition of the Gestures of People with Disabilities, by Andrew Moynahan and Richard Foulds 2:30 - 4:30 - self-directed tours of ASEL and Nemours grounds 4:30 - 6:00 - papers on topics not handled in other sessions. Menu Oriented Computerized Dictionary for Sign Language, by Yushi Kato and Ichiro Naito Unsupervised Cross-Modal Chracterization of Expressive Gestures in Professional Monologue Discourse, by Michael Casey and Joshua Wachman A Score for the Analysis of Gestures in Multimodal Communication, by Isabella Poggi and Emanuela Magno Caldognetto 6:00 - 6:30 - closing presentation, by Richard Foulds WIGLS Registration information: The fee for early registration (before June 21) is $50. Late registration (between June 21 and September 1) is $60. On-site registration fee is $100 per day. The registration fee covers workshop proceedings and videotape, lunches, and transportation from the housing location on the University of Delaware's campus to the workshop location on the second day of the workshop. The first day of the workshop will be on the University of Delaware's campus in Newark Delaware. The second day will be at the Alfred I. duPont Institute in Wilmington, Delaware. Additional registration and housing information is available at: http://www.asel.udel.edu/~messing/WIGLS.html. The information at this web site will be available via e-mail or postal mail upon request. Send inquiries to: Lynn Messing, WIGLS chair Applied Science and Engineering Laboratories Alfred I. duPont Institute P.O. Box 269 Wilmington, Delaware 19899 e-mail: messingMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue