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Wednesday 15 January

       
8.30 - 9.00 Registration, coffee
       
9.00 - 9.15 Opening
9.15 - 10.00 Invited talk: Matthew Stone
      Linguistic representation and Gricean inference
10.00 - 10.30 Helen Gaylard and Allan Ramsay
      Incremental inference in context
       
10.30 - 10.50 Coffee break
       
10.50 - 11.20 Aravind Joshi, Laura Kallmeyer and Maribel Romero
      Flexible composition in LTAG, quantifier scope and inverse linking
11.20 - 11.50 Laura Kallmeyer
      LTAG semantics for relative clauses
11.50 - 12.20 Vivi Nastase and Stan Szpakowics
      Exploring noun modifier-semantic relations
       
12.20 - 13.30 Lunch break
       
13.30 - 14.00 Harry Bunt
      Underspecification in semantic representations: which technique
      for what purpose?
14.00 - 14.30 Ashwani Kumar and Laurent Romary
      A comprehensive framework for multimodal meaning representation
14.30 - 15.00 Aoife Cahill, Mairead McCarthy, Josef van Genabith and Andy Way
      Quasi-logical forms from f-structures for the Penn treebank
       
15.00 - 15.20 Coffee/tea break
       
15.20 - 15.50 Kees van Deemter
      OT for NLP: Towards a computationally useful notion of
      superoptimality
       
15.50 - 16.30 Report from SIGSEM WG Meeting
16.30 - 17.30 SIGSEM Business Meeting
       
17.30 - 18.30 Reception



Thursday 16 January

       
9.00 - 09.45 Invited talk: Adam Kilgarriff
      Grammatical statistical hierarchical lexicons (Grashls)
9.45 - 10.15 Katrin Erk, Andrea Kowalski and Manfred Pinkal
      A corpus resource for lexical semantics
       
10.15 - 10.35 Coffee break
       
10.35 - 11.05 Maciej Piasecki
      Dynamic representation of nominal anaphora without syntactic indexing
11.05 - 11.35 Michel Gagnon and Edson Luíz
      Interpretation of the verbal form estar + Past Participle in Portuguese
       
11.35 - 12.20 Short paper/poster presentations
       
12.20 - 13.10 Walking lunch and poster visits
       
13.10 - 13.40 David Traum
      Semantics and pragmatics of questions and answers for dialogue agents
13.40 - 14.10 Robert van Rooy and Katrin Schulz
      Exhaustification
14.10 - 14.40 Jan Alexandersson and Tilman Becker
      The formal foundations underlying overlay
       
14.40 - 15.25 Invited talk: Pat Hayes
      Coexisting style of formalization for the Semantic Web
       
15.30     Excursion and Conference Dinner



Friday 17 January

       
9.00 - 09.45 Invited talk: Michiel van Lambalgen
      A match made in heaven: linguistics and robotics
9.45 - 10.15 Minhua Ma and Paul Mc Kevitt
      Semantic representation of events in 3D animation
10.15 - 10.45 Miguel Perez-Ramirez and Chris Fox
      An axiomatization of imperatives using Hoare logic
       
10.45 - 11.05 Coffee break
       
11.05 - 11.35 James Pustejovsky, José Castaño, Robert Ingria, Roser Saurí,
      Robert Gaizauskas, Andrea Setzer and Graham Katz
      TimeML: Robust specification of event and temporal expressions in text
11.35 - 12.05 Tim Fernando
      Finite-state descriptions for temporal semantics
       
12.05 - 12.55 Short paper/poster presentations
       
12.55 - 14.00 Walking lunch and poster visits
       
14.00 - 14.30 Myroslava Dzikovska, Mary Swift and James Allen
      Constructing custom semantic representations from a generic lexicon
14.30 - 15.00 Malte Gabsdill and Johan Bos
      Combining acoustic confidence scores with deep semantic analysis
      for clarification dialogues
15.00 - 15.30 Rodger Kibble
      Both sides, now: predictive reference resolution in generation
      and interpretation
       
15.30     Closing