ROCKY Project Final Workshop

On 10-11 July 2023, the ERC ROCKY project will hold its final workshop.

Attenders who would like to join for lunch, please write Yoad Winter by 1 July.

Program

Monday, 10 July 2023

09:00-09:15
Reception and opening

Session 1 – experimental semantics

09:15-10:00
James Hampton:
Long blue coats and Large dark glasses: Conjunctions of unidimensional vague adjectives

10:00-10:45
Imke Kruitwagen:
Reciprocal predicates: a typicality approach

10:45-11:00
Tea

11:00-11:45
Sven Smeman and Maaike Smit:
Methodological Choices in the Study of Mass-Count Comparisons

11:45-12:30
Yoad Winter:
Countability and measurement in comparatives

12:30-13:30
Lunch

Session 2 – cross-linguistic semantics

13:30-14:15
Joost Zwarts:
Between a singular: The role of subatomic plurality

14:15-15:00
Giada Palmieri:
From Romance to Bantu and back: a journey through lexical reciprocal predicates

15:00-15:30
Coffee

15:30-16:15
Sofiya Ros:
Some observations on reciprocals in Wolof

16:15-17:15
Invited Speaker
Rick Nouwen:
Terribly nice, pretty ugly: the semantics and computational pragmatics of deadjectival intensifiers

Tuesday, 11 July 2023

Session 3 – computational semantics

09:00-10:00
Invited Speaker
Albert Gatt
(title TBA)

10:00-10:45
Lasha Abzianidze:
SpaceNLI: Evaluating the Consistency of Natural Language Inference In Space

10:45-11:00
Coffee and Tea

11:00-11:45
Denis Paperno:
Leverage Points in Modality Shifts: Comparing Language-only and Multimodal Word Representations

11:45-12:30:
Sofia Nikiforova:
Imperfect AI in High-Accuracy Fields