Nexing International Seminar on
Negation and Conditionals
Faro, 2002, April 2
University of Algarve
Faculty of Human and Social Sciences
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