Grammar Developement Workshop: Program

Grammar development: Multilingual aspects
of the syntax-semantics interface

Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation
Beit Daniel, Zichron Ya'akov, Israel, June 23-25, 2015

Program

Schedule

10:00-11:30			Agreement	Machine Translation
	Monday, 22/6	Tuesday, 23/6	Wednesday, 24/6	Thursday, 25/6
9:30-11:30	ISCOL Meeting The Open University Campus Ra’anana	Informal tour of historical Zichron Ya'akov
			Danon	Kordoni
			Michaelis	Webber
11:30-11:45		Welcome	Coffee break	Coffee break
11:45-13:15		The Development of Large Grammars	Multi-Word Expressions	Multi-lingual Grammar Development
		Flickinger	Herzig Sheinfux	Müller
		Przepiorkowski	TBA	Arad Greshler
13:15-14:30		Lunch break	Lunch break	Lunch break
14:30-16:00		Semantics	Predicate Argument Structure	Grammars of Non Standard Average European Languages
		Lappin	Van Eynde	Crysmann
		Richter	Datner	Koenig
16:00-16:15		Coffee break	Coffee break	Coffee break
16:15-17:45		Parsing	Syntax-Semantics Interface	Discussion: How universal is grammar? Implications for computational grammar development
		Steedman	Ruppehnofer
		Tsarfaty	Rado	Closing words
20:00-	Informal "warm up"		Dinner

Speakers and Talks

Adam Przepiorkowski, Polish Academy of Science
    Beyond LFG: the development of a large grammar of Polish

Berthold Crysmann, CNRS Paris
    Mixed Categories in Hausa: Between Morphology, Syntax and Semantics

Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh
    Can we improve semantic and discourse-level properties of SMT output?

Dan Flickinger, Stanford University
    Robust Parsing: Bridging the Coverage Chasm

Elitzur Datner, Tel Aviv University
    Beyond Syntax: A Radical Usage-based Approach to Argument Structure

Frank Richter, Goethe University Frankfurt & Michael Hahn, University of Tübingen
    Henkin Semantics for Reasoning with Natural Language

Frank Van Eynde, University of Leuven
    Predicative Constructions in HPSG

Gabi Danon, Bar Ilan University
    Ranking Alternative Specifications of Abstract Agreement Features

Janina Rado & Frank Richter, Goethe University Frankfurt
    Complex Sluicing and Focus

Jean Pierre Koenig & Karin Michelson, University at Buffalo
    Exploring the Nature of Syntax

Josef Ruppenhofer, University of Hildesheim
    Frames, Polarity and Causation

Laura Michaelis, University of Colorado at Boulder & Paul Kay, UC Berkeley
    Non-canonical syntax meets special pragmatics: Postverbal agreement in English

Livnat Herzig Sheinfux, University of Haifa
    Hebrew Verbal Multi-Word Expressions

Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh
    Categories and Constructions

Reut Tsarfaty, The Open University of Israel
    Relational Realizational Parsing

Shalom Lappin, King's College London
    Doing Semantics with a Probabilistic Type Theory

Stefan Müller, Freie Universität Berlin
    The CoreGram Project: Theoretical Linguistics, Theory Development and Verification

Tali Arad Greshler, University of Haifa
    Development of Maximally Reusable Grammars: Parallel Development of Hebrew and Arabic Grammars

Valia Kordoni, Humboldt University of Berlin
    Improving Machine Translation through Linguistic Treatment of Phrasal Verbs

Social events

Monday, June 22, 20:00
Join us for an informal "warm up". Venue TBD.
Wednesday, June 24, 20:00
Dinner. Venue TBD.