Workshop on Constraints in Discourse
7-9 July, 2006
Maynooth, Ireland
The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for presenting recent research on constraints in discourse. The target areas include the recognition of discourse structure as well as the interpretation and generation of discourse in a broad variety of domains. The workshop offers a forum for researchers from diverse formal approaches, including but not limited to:
- Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) - Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT) - Tree Adjoining Grammars - Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) - The QUD Modell - Plan Based Reasoning - Abductive Reasoning - Gricean Pragmatics - Speech Act Theory	Athanasius Kircher, Musurgia Universalis (Romae, 1650) Held in Russell Library, NUI, Maynooth Not to be reproduced without permission - click to enlarge
Invited Speakers Jerry Hobbs, U Southern California Barbara Kaup, TU Berlin Alex Lascarides, U Edinburgh Candy Sidner, MERL	Program Committee Anton Benz, U of Southern Denmark Markus Egg, U Groningen John Harpur, NUIM Jerry Hobbs, U Southern California Barbara Kaup, TU Berlin Peter Kühnlein, U Bielefeld Alex Lascarides, U Edinburgh Gisela Redeker, U Groningen Ivan Sag, Stanford U Candy Sidner, MERL