Construction of Meaning/Semantics and Pragmatics 
	     Workshop

Stanford Semantics


7TH ANNUAL SEMANTICS FEST

Friday, March 10, 2006
Cordura Hall, Rm 100

The Construction of Meaning Workshop is pleased to sponsor the Seventh Annual Stanford Semantics Fest. The Semantics Fest is intended to promote discussion and colloboration among all those in the Stanford community interested in the semantics and pragmatics of natural language, as well as their interface with other modules of grammar. We encourage contributions by all those who share these interests.



Organizing Committee: Beth Levin, Philip Hofmeister, Judith Tonhauser, Laura Whitton
SCHEDULE AND ABSTRACTS


09:45-10:00     Coffee and welcome


Chair: Judith Tonhauser


10:00-10:30

Peter Sells and Jong-Bok Kim
Honorification in Korean as Expressive Meaning

10:30-11:00

Dmitry Levinson
Irrealis as Polarity Sensitivity


11:00-11:15     Break


Chair: Stanley Peters


11:15-11:45

John Dowding (UC/Santa Cruz) and Matthew Purver (Stanford University/CSLI)
Combining Lexical Resources in a Robust Broad-Coverage Semantic Parser

11:45-12:15

Bill MacCartney
Computational Models of Textual Inference


12:15-1:15     Lunch


Chair: Itamar Francez


1:15-1:45

David Beaver and Cleo Condoravdi
Confused, You Will Be: "Before" and "After"

1:45-2:15

Cleo Condoravdi and Lauri Karttunen
A Computational Semantics for Implicatives

2:15-2:45

Lauri Karttunen
The Two Meanings of "don't wait"


2:45-3:00     Break


Chair: Ashwini Deo


3:00-3:30

Elizabeth Traugott
The information-statuses of Old English object left-dislocations

3:30-4:00

John Beavers, Beth Levin, Shiao Wai Tham
Typology of Motion Events Revisited


4:00     Social





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