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Constraints
in Discourse III
Potsdam,
July
30th-August 1st, 2008
Local
Organisation:
Anton
Benz, ZAS Berlin, Germany
Manfred
Stede, Uni Potsdam, Germany
Linguistik Potsdam
& ZAS
Berlin
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Location
Campus Neues Palais, Haus 8, Raum 0.59
Orientation: Map of Area Plan of Building
Wednesday, July 30th
| 9:00 |
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Registration / Coffee |
| 9:45 |
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Opening |
| 10:00 |
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Laurence Danlos (invited): D-STAG : Parsing discourse with synchronous TAG and SDRT background |
| 11:00 / 11:15 Coffee |
| 11:15 |
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Alan Lee, Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber: Departures from Tree Structures in Discourse: Shared Arguments in the Penn Discourse Treebank |
| 12:00 |
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Laurence Danlos, Pierre Hankach: Right Frontier Constraint for discourses in non canonical order |
| 12:45 / 14:15 Lunch |
| 14:15 |
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Nicholas Asher (invited): Recovering and Reasoning about Preferences in Dialogue |
| 15:15 |
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Marianne Vergez-Couret, Laurent Prevot and Myriam Bras: Interleaved discourse, the case of two-step enumerative structures |
| 16:00 / 16:15 Coffee |
| 16:15 |
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Postersession
| Rodrigo Agerri: Does Blocking affect Metaphor? |
| Matthias Irmer: Bridges between Events |
| Etsuko Oishi: “Am I your husband?”: The contents of personal pronouns |
| Vladimir Popescu and Jean Caelen: Contextual Filtering of Rhetorical Relations in Discourse Structuring for Language Generation in Human-Computer Dialogue |
| Marc Staudacher: Some problems with SDRT's formalization |
| Henk Zeevat: Locality and Accommodation |
| Deniz Zeyrek, Umit Deniz Turan and Isin Demirsahin: Structural and Presuppositional Connectives in Turkish |
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| 17:30 |
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End |
Thursday, July 31st
| 10:00 |
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Berry Claus (invited): Comprehending descriptions of non-factual desired situations: Discourse referents and motor actions |
| 11:00 / 11:15 Coffee |
| 11:15 |
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Ildikó Berzlánovich, Markus Egg and Gisela Redeker: Discourse structure and lexical cohesion in expository and persuasive texts |
| 12:00 |
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Jacques Jayez and Mathilde Dargnat. The Interpretation of Continuative Rises in SDRT |
| 12:45 / 14:15 Lunch |
| 14:15 |
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Paul Piwek (invited): Constraints in Natural Language Generation |
| 15:15 |
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Sebastian Buecking and Maria Averintseva-Klisch: What's wrong with 'Diana'? - Discourse-Pragmatic Constraints on Bare Proper Names in German |
| 16:00 Social Event |
Friday, August 1st
| 10:00 |
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Julia Hirschberg (invited): A question of questions: Prosodic cues to question form and function |
| 11:00 / 11:15 Coffee |
| 11:15 |
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Rudy Loock: Appositive relative clauses and their competing allostructures in English: An information-packaging approach |
| 12:00 / 13:30 Lunch |
| 13:30 |
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Katja Jasinskaja and Antje Roßdeutscher: Towards Generating Narratives from a Preverbal Message: A DRT-based approach |
| 14:15 / 14:30 Coffee |
| 14:30 |
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Michael Grabski. Connectives that manage perspectives in discourse: On the function of German nämlich |
| 15:15 |
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Manfred Stede and Kristin Irsig: Complex Connectives in German: Complications for Local Coherence Analysis |
| 16:00 / 16:15 Coffee |
| 16:15 |
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Best Paper Award |
Accepted Papers:
| Vladimir Popescu and Jean Caelen. Contextual Filtering of Rhetorical Relations in Discourse Structuring for Language Generation in Human-Computer Dialogue |
| Marc Staudacher. Some problems with SDRT's formalization |
| Rudy Loock. Appositive relative clauses and their competing allostructures in English: An information-packaging approach |
| Matthias Irmer. Bridges between Events |
| Sebastian Buecking and Maria Averintseva-Klisch. What's wrong with 'Diana'? - Discourse-Pragmatic Constraints on Bare Proper Names in German |
| Deniz Zeyrek, Umit Deniz Turan and Isin Demirsahin. Structural and Presuppositional Connectives in Turkish |
| Etsuko Oishi. “Am I your husband?”: The contents of personal pronouns |
| Rodrigo Agerri. Does Blocking affect Metaphor? |
| Marianne Vergez-Couret, Laurent Prevot and Myriam Bras. Interleaved discourse, the case of two-step enumerative structures |
| Jacques Jayez and Mathilde Dargnat. The Interpretation of Continuative Rises in SDRT |
| Alan Lee, Rashmi Prasad, Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber. Departures from Tree Structures in Discourse: Shared Arguments in the Penn Discourse Treebank |
| Laurence Danlos, Pierre Hankach: Right Frontier Constraint for discourses in non canonical order |
| Henk Zeevat. Locality and Accommodation |
| Michael Grabski. Connectives that manage perspectives in discourse. On the function of German nämlich |
| Katja Jasinskaja and Antje Roßdeutscher. Towards Generating Narratives from a Preverbal Message: A DRT-based approach |
| Ildikó Berzlánovich, Markus Egg and Gisela Redeker. Discourse structure and lexical cohesion in expository and persuasive texts |
| Manfred Stede and Kristin Irsig. Complex Connectives in German: Complications for Local Coherence Analysis |
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