Program of ICoS-2


Friday, July 28

Dagstuhl is open for arrival from 14:00

Saturday, July 29

TimeTitleAuthor
9:00 Opening the organizers
9:30 Invited Talk: Computing Anaphora Bonnie Lynn Webber
10:30 Coffee/Tea Break  
  Session I Chair: Nissim Francez
11:00 Between proofs and models: presuppositions Tim Fernando
11:45 Theorem Proving and Programming with Dynamic First order Logic Jan van Eijck, Juan Heguiabehere, Breanndán Ó Nualláin
12:30 Lunch  
  Session II Chair: James Allen
14:00 Dialogue Modelling using Multiple Inferences over Information States Joern Kreutel, Colin Matheson
14:45 Discourse Connectives, Inference and Information Structure Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova, Bonnie Lynn Webber
15:30 Coffee/Tea Break  
  Session III: System Descriptions and Demos Chair: Bonnie Lynn Webber
16:00 The study of the anaphoric relationship on the Romanian corpora Liliana Cojocaru
16:20 System Demonstrations  
18:00 Dinner  
19:30 ICoS Business Meeting  
22:00 Cheese in the wine cellar  

Sunday July 30

TimeTitleAuthors
9:30 Invited Talk: Computational Semantics in Information Retrieval Christof Monz
10:30 Coffee/Tea Break  
  Session IV Chair: Marc Steedman
11:00 Generalized Quantifiers in Declarative and Interrogative Sentences Raffaella Bernardi, Richard Moot
11:45 A Natural Logic inference system Yaroslav Fyodorov, Yoad Winter, Nissim Francez
12:30 Lunch  
  Session V Chair: Christof Monz
14:00 Computing Presuppositions and Implicatures in Mathematical Discourse Claus Zinn
14:45 Towards a Tableaux Machine for Language Understanding Michael Kohlhase, Alexander Koller
15:30 Coffee/Tea Break  
16:00 Invited Talk: Towards Practical Dialogue Systems James Allen
17:00 Panel Discussion: The Future of Inference in Computational Semantics TBA
18:00 Dinner  
19:00 Walk through the Dagstuhl wilderness  
22:00 Cheese in the wine cellar  

Monday, July 31

8:30 Bus to COLING in Saarbrücken