Monthly Archives: September 2015
Third Variamu Workshop
[UPDATED PROGRAMME]
We are gald to announce the 3d Variamu Workshop to be held at the Speech and Language Laboratory, Aix-en-Provence, on 1 & 2 October, 2015.
Please find below the programme.
All welcome!
Looking forward to seeing you
PROGRAMME
Thursday October 1st
09h00-09h15: Opening [Room A003]
Laurent Prévot Aix-Marseille University |
Perspectives for Variamu |
09h15 – 10h15: Plenary session [Room A003]
Marie-Claude Paris IUF / Paris 7 |
Adverbial clauses in Mandarin Chinese: some aspects of their syntax and semantics with reference to French |
10h15 – 10h30: Coffee Break
10h30 – 12h00: Session 1 [Room A003]
Philippe Blache Aix-Marseille University |
Chunks and properties: a new language processing architecture |
Emanuele Chersoni Aix-Marseille University |
Distributional data for constraint-based semantic parsing |
Laurent Prévot Aix-Marseille University |
Quantitative Comparative Interactional Linguistics |
12h00 – 13h30: Lunch
13h30 – 15h00: Session 2 [Conference Room]
James Sneed German Aix-Marseille University |
“Lexical” statistics for prosody: Goals and challenges |
Chu-Ren Huang, Menghan Jiang, Jingxia Lin Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
Comparable Corpus Based Approach to Description and Identification of Varieties of Chinese |
Marco Cappellini Aix-Marseille University |
Learning French and Mandarin Chinese through Skype: some conversational variations and methodological considerations. |
15h00 – 15h30: Coffee Break
15h30- 17h30: Session 3 [Conference Room]
Grégoire de Montcheuil Aix-Marseille University |
4-Couv : building a new treebank based on backcovers |
Jiajuan Xiong, Qingqing Zhao, and Chu-Ren Huang Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
Linguistic Synaesthesia in Chinese |
Francesca Strik Lievers University of Milano-Bicocca |
Synaesthesia across languages |
Chu-Ren Huang Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
A Summary of Variamu sub-projects in PolyU |
19h00: Diner
Friday October 2nd
09h30-10h45: Session 4 [Room –A001]
Cathy Wong Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
Variation in progress–English loanwords and borrowings in newspaper columnists’ writing in Hong Kong in the 1990s (video-conference) |
Organisational session 1 (video-conference) |
10h45-11h00: Coffee break
11h00-12h30: Session 5 [Conference Room]
Ana Nunes University of Macau |
Considerations of Portuguese linguistic variation in Macau: VariAmu Project |
Jasmin Sadat & Serge Pinto Aix-Marseille University |
Cross-liguistic comparison of dysarthria in Parkisnon’s disease: Cantonese vs. French |
12h30-14h00: Lunch
14h00-15h30: Organisational session [Conference Room]
15h30-15h45: Coffee Break
15h45-17h30: Organisational session [Conference Room]
19h30: Diner