Euro Summer School – Vilem Mathesius Lecture Series 18
March 9 – 22, 2003
Krystal hotel, Jose Marti Str., Prague 6
Scientific Programme
- Wolfgang Dressler (Austria) - Static and Dynamic Morphology
- Julia Hirschberg (USA) - Intonation in Spoken Dialogue Systems
- Frederick Jelinek (USA) - Language Modeling for Speech Recognition
- Martin Kay (USA) - Triangulation: An Approach to Partially Automated Machine Translation
- Ferenc Kiefer (Hungary) - Three Ways of Doing Semantics
- Barbara Partee (USA) - Integrating Lexical and Compositional Semantics
- Helmut Schnelle (Germany) - Language in Mind and Brain
- Mark Steedman (USA) - Using Combinatory Categorial Grammar for Wide Coverage Parsing
- Bonnie Webber (USA) - Computing Discourse Structure and Discourse Semantics
There will also be Czech scholars presenting lectures in English, esp.
- Jan Hajic - Towards Meaning: The Tectogrammatical Representation of Sentence Structure
- Eva Hajicova -
- Topic-Focus Articulation of the Sentence in Theoretical Description and in Corpus Annotations
- From Topic of the Sentence to Some Aspects of Discourse Structure
- Jarmila Panevova - Valency and Functional Generative Description
- Petr Sgall - A Dependency-Based Underlying Syntax and the Simple Patterning of the Core of Language
Research notes:
- Mikhail Boldasov (Russia) - Multilingual Generation in Data Base NL-Interface
Schedule
Week 1 (Monday March 10 - Friday March 14, 2003)
|
9:30-11:00 |
11:30-13:00 |
14:30-16:00 |
16:30-18:00 |
| Monday |
Schnelle |
Partee |
Jelinek |
Sgall |
| Tuesday |
Schnelle |
Partee |
Jelinek |
Hajicova |
Welcome Party |
| Wednesday |
Schnelle |
* |
Hajicova |
Dressler |
| Thursday |
Dressler |
Partee |
Jelinek |
* |
| Friday |
Dressler |
Panevova |
* |
Hajic |
Week 2 (Monday March 17 - Friday March 21, 2003)
|
9:30-11:00 |
11:30-13:00 |
14:30-16:00 |
16:30-18:00 |
| Monday |
Steedman |
Webber |
Kay |
(Jacobson's Lecture* - Kiefer) |
| Tuesday |
Steedman |
Webber |
Hirschberg |
Kiefer |
| Wednesday |
Boldasov* |
Webber |
Kay |
Kiefer |
| Thursday |
Steedman |
Hirschberg |
Kay |
* |
| Friday |
* |
Hirschberg |
x |
x |
Acknowledgement
The Foundation of Vilem Mathesius and the Prague Linguistic Circle are grateful for the support given by the European Commission, Research DG, Human Potential Programme, High Level Scientific Conferences (contract number: HPCF-2000-00336), the Higher Education Support Programme of the Open Society Institute, and by the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University.
