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For more information about the lecture halls and seminar rooms, see our lecture room page. The names listed under "Technical Assistance" are student volunteers who will act as a contact person for technical questions of the lecturers and workshop speakers during the course or workshop.

Week One: 9:15-10:45

LaCo-I Statistical machine translation

Abstract; Course material; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Philipp Koehn (pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk)
• Chris Callison-Burch (callison-burch@ed.ac.uk)

LaCo-I Bioinformatic methods in calculating language relationships

Abstract; Course material; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Anke Lüdeling (anke.luedeling@rz.hu-berlin.de)
• Ulf Leser (leser@informatik.hu-berlin.de)

LaLo-A Composing meanings as programs

Abstract; Course material; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Ken Shan (ccshan@rutgers.edu)

LaLo-F Introduction to the Logic of Conditionals

Abstract; Course material; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Paul Egré (paulegre@magic.fr)
• Mikaël Cozic (mikael.cozic@ens.fr)

LoCo-I Interval temporal logics

Abstract; Course material; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Valentin Goranko (goranko@maths.wits.ac.za)
• Angelo Montanari (montana@dimi.uniud.it)

LoCo-I Modularity in logical theories and ontologies

Abstract; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Carsten Lutz (lutz@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de)
• Frank Wolter (frank@csc.liv.ac.uk)

LoCo-W Logics for agents and mobility

Abstract; Course material; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Berndt Farwer (berndt.farwer@durham.ac.uk)
• Michael Köhler-Bußmeier (koehler@informatik.uni-hamburg.de)

Week One: 11:00-12:30

LaCo-A Parsing beyond context-free grammars

Abstract; Course material; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Laura Kallmeyer (lk@sfs.uni-tuebingen.de)
• Wolfgang Maier (wo.maier@uni-tuebingen.de)

LaLo-I Experimental Investigations of the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface

Abstract; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Richard Breheny (r.breheny@ucl.ac.uk)
• Napoleon Katsos (nk248@cam.ac.uk)

LaLo-W Symmetric calculi and Ludics for the semantic interpretation

Abstract; Course material; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Alain Lecomte (Alain.Lecomte@upmf-grenoble.fr)
• Myriam Quatrini (quatrini@iml.univ-mrs.fr)

LoCo-A Nonmonotonic logics---recent advances

Abstract; Course material; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Mirek Truszczynski (mirek@cs.uky.edu)

LoCo-I Deontic logic in computer science

Abstract; Course material; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Leon van der Torre (leon.vandertorre@uni.lu)
• Jörg Hansen (jhansen@uni-leipzig.de)

Week One: 14:15-15:45

LaCo-I Negative polarity items: corpus linguistics, semantics, and psycholinguistics

Abstract; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Frank Richter (fr@sfs.uni-tuebingen.de)
• Janina Rado (janina@sfs.uni-tuebingen.de)
• Manfred Sailer (manfred.sailer@phil.uni-goettingen.de)

LaCo-W Lexical semantics: bridging the gap between semantic theory and computational simulations

Abstract; Course material; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Marco Baroni (marco.baroni@unitn.it)
• Stefan Evert (stefan.evert@uos.de)
• Alessandro Lenci (alessandro.lenci@ilc.cnr.it)

LaLo-A Convergent Grammar

Abstract; Course material; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Carl Pollard (pollard@ling.ohio-state.edu)

LaLo-I Rhetorical Relations

Abstract; Course material; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Katja Jasinskaja (katja.jasinskaja@ims.uni-stuttgart.de)
• Henk Zeevat (henk@illc.uva.nl)

LoCo-A Model theory for extensions of modal logic

Abstract; Course material; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Balder ten Cate (balder.tencate@uva.nl)
• David Gabelaia (gabelaia@dcs.kcl.ac.uk)

LoCo-I Dynamic epistemic logic

Abstract; Course material; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Hans van Ditmarsch (hans@cs.otago.ac.nz)
• Jan van Eijck (jve@cwi.nl)

Week One: 17:15-18:45

LaCo-A Modelling dialogue and language change: a dynamic syntax account

Abstract; Course material; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Ruth Kempson (ruth.kempson@kcl.ac.uk)

LaCo-I Grammar induction and language evolution

Abstract; Course material; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Jelle Zuidema (jzuidema@science.uva.nl)
• Rens Bod (rens@science.uva.nl)

LaLo-I Degrees in semantics

Abstract; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Christopher Piñón (pinon@sdf-eu.org)

LaLo-W Formal and experimental approaches to discourse particles and modal adverbs

Abstract; Course material; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Hans-Christian Schmitz (hans-christian.schmitz@fit.fraunhofer.de)
• Henk Zeevat (henk@illc.uva.nl)

LoCo-A Games, monadic logics, and synthesis

Abstract; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Alexander Rabinovich (rabinoa@post.tau.ac.il)

LoCo-F Logics for computation

Abstract; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Carlos Areces (carlos.areces@loria.fr)
• Patrick Blackburn (patrick.blackburn@loria.fr)

Week Two: 9:15-10:45

LaCo-F Approaches to dialogue systems and dialogue management

Abstract; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• David Traum (traum@ict.usc.edu)

LaCo-I The syntax-semantics interface: theoretical insights and practical implementations

Abstract; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Markus Egg (k.m.m.egg@rug.nl)
• Valia Kordoni (kordoni@coli.uni-sb.de)

LaLo-I Alternative logical semantics

Abstract; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Jeroen Groenendijk (jgroenendijk@mac.com)

LaLo-W Free choiceness: facts, models, and problems

Abstract; Course material; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Jacques Jayez (jjayez@isc.cnrs.fr)
• Lucia Tovena (tovena@linguist.jussieu.fr)

LoCo-A Modal logics for games and multi-agent systems

Abstract; Course material; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Thomas Ågotnes (tag@hib.no)
• Wojtek Jamroga (wjamroga@in.tu-clausthal.de)

LoCo-I Randomness in logic

Abstract; Course material; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Jan Reimann (reimann@Math.Berkeley.EDU)

Week Two: 11:00-12:30

LaCo-A Semantic relation extraction and its applications

Abstract; Course material; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Roxana Girju (girju@uiuc.edu)

LaCo-I Natural language generation for embodied conversational agents

Abstract; Course material; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Kristina Striegnitz (kristina.striegnitz@gmail.com)

LaLo-F Bidirectional OT in natural language

Abstract; Course material; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Henriette de Swart (henriette.deswart@let.uu.nl)
• Helen de Hoop (H.deHoop@let.kun.nl)

LoCo-F Introduction to computational social choice

Abstract; Course material; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Ulle Endriss (ulle@science.uva.nl)

LoCo-I Probabilistic logics and probabilistic networks

Abstract; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Jan-Willem Romeijn (j.w.romeijn@rug.nl)
• Jon Williamson (j.williamson@kent.ac.uk)

LoCo-W Logic and intelligent interaction: charting the technical contours

Abstract; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Johan van Benthem (johan@science.uva.nl)
• Eric Pacuit (epacuit@stanford.edu)

Week Two: 14:15-15:45

LaCo-A Computational dialogue modeling

Abstract; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Jonathan Ginzburg (ginzburg@dcs.kcl.ac.uk)
• Raquel Fernández (raquel.fernandez@stanford.edu)

LaCo-I Statistical language modeling for information access

Sponsored by the EACL

Abstract; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Maarten de Rijke (mdr@science.uva.nl)
• Edgar Meij (emeij@science.uva.nl)

LaLo-A Logic, language, and the brain

Abstract; Course material; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Michiel van Lambalgen (M.vanLambalgen@uva.nl)

LaLo-W What syntax feeds semantics?

Abstract; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Maribel Romero (maribel.romero@uni-konstanz.de)

LoCo-I Lattices and topologies

Abstract; Course material; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Guram Bezhanishvili (gbezhani@nmsu.edu)
• Mamuka Jibladze (jib@rmi.acnet.ge)

LoCo-I Reasoning, games, action, and rationality

Abstract; Course material; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Eric Pacuit (epacuit@stanford.edu)
• Olivier Roy (oroy@science.uva.nl)

Week Two: 17:15-18:45

LaCo-I Unification grammars

Abstract; Course material; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Shuly Wintner (shuly@cs.haifa.ac.il)

LaCo-W 5th International Workshop on Constraints and Language Processing (CSLP2008)

Abstract; Course material; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Henning Christiansen (henning@ruc.dk)
• Jørgen Villadsen

LaLo-A Perspective and perspective shift

Abstract; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Orin Percus (orinalt@yahoo.com)
• Graham Katz (gkatz@uos.de)

LaLo-I Optimizing the future: imperatives between form and function

Abstract; Course material; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Magdalena Schwager (magdalena@schwager.at)

LoCo-A Dependence logic

Abstract; Course material; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Jouko Väänänen (J.A.Vaananen@uva.nl)

LoCo-I Integrating logic programs and connectionist systems

Abstract; Course material; Participants

Lecturer(s)/Organizer(s):

• Sebastian Bader (sebastian.bader@inf.tu-dresden.de)
• Pascal Hitzler (hitzler@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de)