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ESSLLI 2008
Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg
August 4-15, 2008

 

ESSLLI 2008


Lecture Rooms and Schedules

For some additional information about the ESSLLI 2008 venue, please check our page about the ESSLLI site.

ESA 1
Hall A 		"Ernst-Cassirer-Hoersaal" (622 seats) Behind the ESSLLI registration desk. Used for the Evening Lectures and the FoLLI member meeting. Named after the philosopher Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945; professor in Hamburg 1919-1933).
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Hall C 		"Erwin-Panofsky-Hörsaal" (174 seats) To the left side of the ESSLLI registration desk. Used for courses and workshops (see below). Named after the art historian Erwin Panofsky (1892-1968; professor in Hamburg 1927-1933).
ESA 1
Hall J 		"Magdalene-Schoch-Hörsaal" (174 seats) At the back of the main building, reachable via the quadrangle corridor. Used for courses and workshops. Named after the legal expert Magdalena Schoch (1897-1987).
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Hall M 		"Emil-Artin-Hörsaal" (167 seats) To the right side of the registration desk. Used for courses and workshops and the satellite conference Formal Grammar 2008. Named after the mathematician Emil Artin (1898-1962; professor in Hamburg 1925-1937).
ESA 1
Hall H 		(80 seats) At the back of the main building, reachable via the quadrangle corridor. Used for courses and workshops.
ESA 1
Hall K 		(80 seats) At the back of the main building, reachable via the quadrangle corridor. Used for courses and workshops.
ESA 1W
Room 121 		ESSLLI Computer Room (24 computers) On the first floor of the west wing. This is where the computer facilities are available.
ESA 1W
Room 122		 ESSLLI Music Room (30 seats) On the first floor of the west wing. Mainly used as the ESSLLI Music Room (equipped with an electronic harpsichord). Also used for FoLLI meetings and some courses and workshops.
ESA 1W
Room 221 		(150 seats) On the second floor of the west wing. Used for courses and workshops.

Hall C

Week 1
  • 9:15-10:45: Statistical machine translation
  • 11:00-12:30: Experimental Investigations of the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface
  • 14:15-15:45: Model theory for extensions of modal logic
  • 17:15-18:45: Logics for computation
Week 2
  • 9:15-10:45: The syntax-semantics interface: theoretical insights and practical implementations
  • 11:00-12:30: Semantic relation extraction and its applications
  • 14:15-15:45: Reasoning, games, action, and rationality
  • 17:15-18:45: Dependence logic

Hall H

Week 1
  • 9:15-10:45: Interval temporal logics
  • 11:00-12:30: Symmetric calculi and Ludics for the semantic interpretation
  • 14:15-15:45: Rhetorical Relations
  • 17:15-18:45: Modelling dialogue and language change: a dynamic syntax account
Week 2
  • 9:15-10:45: Free choiceness: facts, models, and problems
  • 11:00-12:30: Introduction to computational social choice
  • 14:15-15:45: Statistical language modeling for information access
  • 17:15-18:45: 5th International Workshop on Constraints and Language Processing (CSLP2008)

Hall J

Week 1
  • 9:15-10:45: Modularity in logical theories and ontologies
  • 11:00-12:30: Parsing beyond context-free grammars
  • 17:15-18:45: Degrees in semantics
Week 2
  • 9:15-10:45: Alternative logical semantics
  • 11:00-12:30: Probabilistic logics and probabilistic networks
  • 17:15-18:45: Unification grammars

Hall K

Week 1
  • 9:15-10:45: Bioinformatic methods in calculating language relationships
  • 11:00-12:30: Nonmonotonic logics---recent advances
  • 14:15-15:45: Convergent Grammar
  • 17:15-18:45: Formal and experimental approaches to discourse particles and modal adverbs
Week 2
  • 9:15-10:45: Approaches to dialogue systems and dialogue management
  • 11:00-12:30: Natural language generation for embodied conversational agents
  • 14:15-15:45: Logic, language, and the brain
  • 17:15-18:45: Optimizing the future: imperatives between form and function

Hall M

Week 1
  • 9:15-10:45: Introduction to the Logic of Conditionals
  • 14:15-15:45: Dynamic epistemic logic
  • 17:15-18:45: Grammar induction and language evolution
Week 2
  • 9:15-10:45: Modal logics for games and multi-agent systems
  • 11:00-12:30: Bidirectional OT in natural language
  • 14:15-15:45: Lattices and topologies
  • 17:15-18:45: Perspective and perspective shift

Seminar room W122

Week 1
  • 9:15-10:45: Logics for agents and mobility
  • 14:15-15:45: Negative polarity items: corpus linguistics, semantics, and psycholinguistics
Week 2
  • 14:15-15:45: Computational dialogue modeling

Seminar room W221

Week 1
  • 9:15-10:45: Composing meanings as programs
  • 11:00-12:30: Deontic logic in computer science
  • 14:15-15:45: Lexical semantics: bridging the gap between semantic theory and computational simulations
  • 17:15-18:45: Games, monadic logics, and synthesis
Week 2
  • 9:15-10:45: Randomness in logic
  • 11:00-12:30: Logic and intelligent interaction: charting the technical contours
  • 14:15-15:45: What syntax feeds semantics?
  • 17:15-18:45: Integrating logic programs and connectionist systems
Contact e-mail: esslli2008@science.uva.nl