Subject: discourse , anaphora and reference resolution 2 - call for delegates

call for delegates daarrc2 - discourse , anaphora and reference resolution colloquium lancaster university , 1 - 4th august , 1998 invited speakers - prof . michael hoey " looking at the text linguistics of certain words " prof . pieter seuren " a discourse - semantic account of donkey anaphora " branimir boguraev " anaphora in computational linguistics " in this email : description draft programme registration form description anaphora and problems of reference resolution have received a great deal of attention from workers in linguistics , computational linguistics , artificial intelligence and information retrieval for a number of decades . such problems have proved a major challenge for all of these fields , and a great many differing theories and solutions have been proposed and implemented with varying degrees of success . this colloquium aims to fill a need for researchers in this field to meet . our hope is that this meeting will allow all of the different strands of work to be identified , with a view to producing an up-to - date review of the field . to this end , a coloquium will take place from the 1st to the 4th of august , 1998 at lancaster university , uk , organized jointly by the department of linguistics , lancaster university and the institute for english studies , lodz university , poland . this colloquium is a follow up to the highly succesful daarc colloquium held at lancaster in 1996 . our aim this time is specifically geared towards encouraging a cross-fertilization of ideas between theoretical linguistics , corpus linguistics and computational linguistics . the daarc2 organizing committee simon botley , lodz university , poland tony mcenery , lancaster university , uk ruslan mitkov , wolverhampton university , uk pieter seuren , nijmegen university , netherlands andrew wilson , chemnitz university , germany draft programme day 1 2 - 5 registration 7 buffet / wine reception day 2 8 - 9 breakfast 9 - 10 plenary a - michael hoey 6 " looking at the text linguistics of certain words " 10 - 11 session a - corpus 1 marco antonio de rocha , university of sussex , uk , " anaphora , collocations and discourse markers in dialogues in english and portuguese " michael barlow , rice university , usa , " feature mismatches and anaphora resolution " 11 - 11 : 30 coffee 11 : 30 - 1 session b computational ruslan mitkov , university of wolverhampton , uk , " evaluating anaphora resolution approaches " suzanne luperfoy , mitre corporation , usa , " incremental pronoun resolution in discourse representation theory " s . azzam , k . humphreys , and r . gaizauskas , university of sheffield , uk , " extending a simple coreference algorithm with a focusing mechanism " 1 - 2 : 30 lunch 2 : 30 - 4 : 00 session c - theoretical approaches 1 kris fletcher , university of lincolnshire and humberside , " proactive versus retroactive processing in pronominal resolution " sophia cormack , university of sunderland , " incremental pronoun resolution in discourse representation theory " miriam eckert , university of edinburgh , uk , " the german topic position and null anaphora " 4 - 4 : 30 tea 4 : 30 - 6 : 30 session d - theoretical approaches 2 ileana comorowski , university of nancy , france , " wh - complements and donkey anaphora " evelyn fogwe , university of hamburg , germany , " anaphora dn binding in meta questions " seth minkoff , university of new mexico , usa , " structural and hybrid binding " ana teresa alves , univesridade dos azores , portugal , " sentential anaphora and restrictions on temporal operators " 7 : 30 dinner day 3 8 - 9 breakfast 9 - 10 plenary b - pieter steuren , nijmegen university , netherlands , " a discourse - semantic account of donkey anaphora " 10 - 11 session e - corpus 2 ronald geluykens , university of munster , germany , " conversational anaphora and referential repair in english " botley & uzar , university of lodz , poland , " investigating learner english anaphora the pelcra way " 11 - 11 : 30 coffee 11 : 30 - 1 session f - computational donna byron and james allen , university of rochester , usa , " resolving demonstrative anaphora in the trains93 corpus " amit bagga , duke university , usa , " the evaluation of coreferences and coreference resolution systems " roland stuckardt , university of frankfurt , germany , " an efficient centering - based algorithm for anaphor resolution " 1 - 2 : 30 2 : 30 - 4 : 00 session g - theoretical approaches 3 fridirique depain - delmotte , university of besancon , " resolving anaphoric reference - a multi - strategy approach " gary wilson , university of lincolnshire & humderside , uk , " do situational or thematic roles provide the best cues to pronoun assignment ? " maarten jaansen , university of utrecht , netherlands , " nominal versus plain anaphora " 4 : 00 - 4 : 30 tea 4 : 30 - 6 : 30 session h - theoretical approaches 4 tomoko tsujimoto , osaka institute of technology , japan , " discourse deixis : this , that and it " kirsi hiltunen , university of joensuu , finland , " reflexive pronouns in finnish : syntactic or pragmatic ? " andrei popescu - belis and isabelle robba , limsi-cnrs , france , " evaluation of coreference rules on complex narrative texts " antonio branco , german research center for artificial intelligence and university of lisbon , germany / portugal , " a lean constraint based implementation of binding theory " 7 : 30 dinner day 4 8 - 9 breakfast 9 - 10 plenary c , bran boguraev " anaphora in computational linguistics " 10 - 11 session i - corpus 3 tony mcenery , simon botley & paul baker , lancaster & lodz university , uk / poland , " developmental deixis - deixis in the age range 7 - 11 " antonio ferandez , m . palomar and l . moreno , alicante university , spain , " a computational approach to pronominal anaphora , one anaphora and surface - count anaphora " 11 - 11 : 30 coffee 11 : 30 - 1 session j - computational 3 claude belisle and denis morell , universities of tours & nantes , france , " the automatic building of a relationships tranducer between proper names based on relational database system - an example of detection and processing of relationships between names of places and names of inhabitants " ivadre parabono and vera lucia strube de lima , pontificia universidade catolica do rio grande do sul , brazil , " possessive pronominal anaphor resolution in portuguese written texts " jan kuper , university of twente , netherlands , " anaphora in the case of universal and existential quantifiers " 1 - 2 : 30 lunch the end daarc2 registration form = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = to register : 1 . send this form by surface mail to : daarc2 , department of linguistics and modern english language , lancaster university , bailrigg , lancaster la1 4yt united kingdom 2 . or fax it to : + 44 - 1524 - 843085 3 . or email it to : mcenery @ comp . lancs . ac . uk please register before 5th june 1998 , otherwise we cannot guarrantee the availability of accommodation . the fee for daarc2 includes the following : attendance at all daarc2 sessions conference pack including proceedings accommodation on the 1st , 2nd and 3rd august meals : 1st august : evening buffet and wine reception 2nd august : mid-morning coffee , lunch , afternoon coffee and dinner 3rd august : breakfast plus mid-morning coffee , lunch , afternoon coffee and dinner . 4th august : breakfast , mid-morning coffee , lunch accommodation is provided in single study bedrooms on the lancaster university main campus . should you wish to bring a partner and require double or twin room accomodation please contact the organizers as soon as possible . such accomodation is limited at the the campus and will be given on a first come first served basis . payment details : fees are payable in pounds sterling or us dollars . please make cheques payable to ' lancaster university ' . sterling money orders can also be used for payment , and must be made payable to ' lancaster university ' . us dollar cheques are also acceptable , using a fixed exchange rate of 1 . 5 $ us to the pound . unfortunately , we cannot accept credit card payments . you may pay at the conference in cash . please indicate clearly on the form if you wish to exercise this option . early registration discounts do not apply to such registrations , however . = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = registration form = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = name : _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ title : _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ department : _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ institution / organisation : _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ address : _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ postcode / city : _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ country _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ telephone : _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ fax : _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ email : _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ payment before 14 / 6 / 98 residential 280 . 00 gbp [ ] student 200 . 00 gbp [ ] non - 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