Workshop in honor of Hans Kamp
In honor of Hans Kamp's 80th birthday, the Institutes of Natural Language Processing and Linguistics are hosting a workshop. Due to the pandemic situation of the last two years, the celebration is unfortunately delayed. We are looking forward to honoring Hans Kamp with a scientific colloquium.
The workshop is intended to foster conversations about issues related to Discourse Representation Theory: the motivations behind DRT, the various ways these and other ideas have been implemented over the years in systems that have built on DRT and in other frameworks, but also about problems well beyond DRT’s original horizon.
In preparation for the workshop, Hans Kamp wrote a document in spring 2020 that takes a historical perspective on DRT, considers empirical phenomena that have been analyzed in DRT, and also points to connections between DRT and various other topics, including logic and Situation Semantics.
Invited speakers
We are pleased to welcome the following speakers to the workshop:
Daniel Altshuler (University of Oxford)
Nicholas Asher (CNRS)
Corien Bary (Radboud University)
David Beaver (UT Austin)
Johan Bos (University of Groningen)
Adrian Brasoveanu (UCSC)
Bart Geurts (University of Nijmegen)
Brendan Learnihan-Sylvester (UT Austin)
Emar Maier (University of Groningen)
Louise McNally (Pompeu Fabra University)
Alina Tigau (University of Bucharest)
Noortje Venhuizen (Saarland University)
Klaus von Heusinger (University of Cologne)
Program
| 1:00pm |
Welcome, with coffee |
| 1:20pm |
Jonas Kuhn (University of Stuttgart) |
| 1:30pm - 4:00pm | Session 1 Chair: Lisa Hofmann (University of Stuttgart) |
| 1:30pm |
Discourse Dynamics and Differential Object Marking in Romanian Klaus von Heusinger (University of Cologne) and Alina Tigau (University of Bucharest) |
| 2:20pm |
Present under Past Corien Bary (Radboud University) and Daniel Altshuler (University of Oxford) |
| 3:10pm |
Why we need dynamic semantics for learning from conversation Nicholas Asher ( Toulouse Institute of Computer Science Research) |
| 4:00pm - 4:20pm |
Coffee break |
| 4:20pm - 6:00pm |
Session 2 Chair: Swantje Tönnis (University of Stuttgart) |
| 4:20pm |
DRT meets normative pragmatics Bart Geurts (Radboud University) |
| 5:10pm |
Having and sharing a plan Brendan Learnihan-Sylvester (University of Texas at Austin) |
| 9:00am - 10:40am | Session 3 Chair: Daniel Hole (University of Stuttgart) |
| 9:00am |
Expectation-based dynamic semantics Noortje Venhuizen (Saarland University) |
| 9:50am |
Variable-free Discourse Representation Structures Johan Bos (University of Groningen) |
| 10:40am - 11:00am |
Coffee break |
| 11:00am - 12:40pm |
Session 4 Chair: Jun Chen (University of Stuttgart) |
| 11:00am |
Narrative frustration Daniel Altshuler (University of Oxford) |
| 11:50am |
Mental pictures and pictorial discourse Emar Maier (University of Groningen) |
| 12:40pm - 2:00pm |
Lunch (provided on site) |
| 2:00pm - 3:40pm | Session 5 Chair: Arndt Riester (Bielefeld University) |
| 2:00pm | Induction of rule ordering in production-based processing models Adrian Brasoveanu (University of California, Santa Cruz) |
| 2:50pm | One little box changes the world! David Beaver (University of Texas at Austin) |
| 3:40pm - 4:00pm |
Coffee break |
| 4:00pm - 4:50pm |
Session 6 Chair: Arndt Riester (Bielefeld University) |
| 4:00pm |
The last word goes to Hans Kamp Louise McNally (University Pompeu Fabra) |
| 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
Reception (Keplerstr. 17, 1st floor) |
| 9:00am - 10:40am | Discussion Moderators: Johan van Benthem (University of Amsterdam) Manfred Krifka (Humboldt University of Berlin) |
| 10:40am - 11:00am |
Coffee break |
| 11:00am - 12:40pm |
Discussion continued |
Directions
Workshop location
All lectures will take place in the
Senatssaal of the University of Stuttgart:
Keplerstraße 7 (1st floor),
70174 Stuttgart
Site plan of the Campus Stadtmitte: Site plan-PDF
Further information on how to get on site can be found here.
Public transport
The Stadtmitte campus is within walking distance of Stuttgart's main train station. Alternatively, you can take the light rail lines U29 and U14 to the "Börsenplatz" stop or bus lines 40 and 42 to the "Katharinenhospital" stop.
By Car
In the direction of Stuttgart center, Stuttgart main station, Friedrichstraße (B 27 direction Tübingen), entrance Schellingstraße.
Please note the information about the environmental zone and the diesel traffic ban.
The parking garage "Hofdienergarage" is adjacent to the Campus Stadtmitte.
Senatssaal, Keplerstr. 7
Accommodation
Organization und Contact
Organization
Judith Tonhauser (Institute of Linguistics)
Daniel Hole (Institute of Linguistics)
Jonas Kuhn (Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS))
Antje Rossdeutscher (Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS))
Contact
If you have any questions about the workshop, please feel free to contact Judith Tonhauser.
Jonas Kuhn
Prof. Dr.Chair of Foundations of Computational Linguistics