Category Archives: Conferences

Bargmann and Sailer at Multiword Expression Meeting in Iași

Sascha and Manfred attended the 5th General Meeting of the European network Parseme (Parsing and Multiword Expressions) in Iași, Romania.

Sascha at his poster, Iași, 22.9.2015 (Manfred Sailer, BY-NC-ND 3.0)
Sascha at his poster, Iași, 23.9.2015 (Manfred Sailer, BY-NC-ND 3.0)

Sascha presented a poster on “Syntactically Flexible VP-Idioms and the N-after-N Construction”. The poster is about how morphosyntactically flexible VP-idioms, like pull strings, and the so-called N-after-N construction, as in car after car, can combine to result in idiomatic VPs like pull string after string. Sascha is using a Semantic Continue reading Bargmann and Sailer at Multiword Expression Meeting in Iași

Sailer at Workshop on Encoding Multiword Expressions

September 21 and 22 Manfred attended a Hands-on Workshop on Encoding Multiword Expressions at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iași, Romania. The workshop was organized as part of the European network Parseme (Parsing and Multiword Expressions).

http://typo.uni-konstanz.de/parseme/index.php/contact/how-to-join-us/2-general/126-parseme-wg1-hands-on-workshop-on-lexical-encoding-of-mwes
Workshop participants. Source: typo.uni-konstanz.de/parseme/index.php/contact/how-to-join-us/2-general/126-parseme-wg1-hands-on-workshop-on-lexical-encoding-of-mwes

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Workshop in Zichron Ya’akov

At a  workshop on grammar development in Zichron Ya’akov in the second half of June Janina Radó and Frank Richter gave two talks. Janina reported on ongoing experimental work on complex sluicing and focus. Frank discussed some aspects of a paper with Michael Hahn on using Henkin semantics for automatic reasoning with natural language.

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A quiet corner in Zichron Ya’akov (Frank Richter, BY-NC-ND 3.0)

The perfect conference location provided ample opportunity to explore the town and to learn about the local historical, botanical and culinary offerings.