NEXING is a multi-disciplinary project fostering the convergence of methods, results and expertise from Informatics, Applied Logic, Cognitive Psychology and Formal Linguistics with respect to the processing of natural language and negation.  Under the scope of the project activities, an international seminar is going to take place at the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences of the University of Algarve.
 
 

Aims

The aim of this seminar is twofold: provide an occasion for cooperative discussion and interaction between researchers from different areas with confluent research interests; and provide an audience of students with some exposure to key aspects of scientific topics and practice usually not addressed in the classroom. The presentations are planned to have an introductory part with an overview of the topic being addressed, followed by the discussion of recent results on that topic by the speaker, many of them obtained in the NEXING project (click here for the previous meeting).
 
 

Invited Speakers

Kai von Fintel (MIT)
João Branquinho (University of Lisbon)
 
 

Organizers

Pedro Santos (Univ. of Algarve, Fac. of Human and Social Sciences)
António Branco (Univ. of Lisbon, Dep. of Informatics, LabMAC-Laboratory of Computational Models and Architectures)
 
 

Program

9:45 Reception

10:00 João Branquinho (University of Lisbon, Dep. of Philosophy)
          "Obstinate Rigidity"

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 António Branco (Univ. of Lisbon, Dep. of Informatics)
         "When is the semantic representation of negation hard, if not impossible, to compute?"

12:30 Lunch

15:00 Pedro Santos (Univ. of Algarve, Fac. of Human and Social Sciences)
         "Readings of Conditionals"

16:00 Coffee break

16:30 Kai von Fintel (MIT)
          "Only if"

17:30 End
 
 

Participation

Attendance of the seminar is free of charge and open to everyone.
 
 

Location

The seminar is going to take place at the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences of the University of Algarve. Further details on its location will be made available later.
 
 

Funding

The NEXING project is funded by FCT under the contract FCT/SAPIENS99/34076/99