Abstract:

The talk aims at presenting the discourse organization studies conducted by the Group of Functionalist Investigations at Universidade [...]]]>

Speaker:  Juliano Desiderato
…………….Universidade Estadual de Maringa, DTL, (Brasil)
Data: June 4th 2015, Thursday
Time: 15:00
Room: 3.2 room. Faculty of Informatics (UPV/EHU)
Title: “Discourse organization studies at Universidade Estadual de Maringá”

Abstract:

The talk aims at presenting the discourse organization studies conducted by the Group of Functionalist Investigations at Universidade Estadual de Maringá (Brazil). The investigations concern both spoken and written Brazilian Portuguese and describe the rhetorical structure of diverse genres. The programme of the talk is the following:Spoken language

• Spoken language strategies
• Discourse markers
• Rhetorical structure of undergraduate lectures
• Rhetorical structure of biblical sermons
• Rhetorical structure of narratives
• Rhetorical structure of personal experience reports
• Rhetorical structure of argumentative answers

Short bio:

Juliano Desiderato Antonio is associate professor at Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Brazil. The theme of his master’s degree dissertation (1998) was preferred argument structure in narratives in Brazilian Portuguese. His doctorate thesis (2004) concerns the rhetorical structure of narratives in Brazilian Portuguese and its manifestation via hypotaxis. He conducted a post-doctorate investigation (2011) to characterize some Functional Discourse Grammar’s parameters as signals of hypotactic rhetorical relations. At UEM he teaches Linguistics for graduation classes and Functional Linguistics for post-graduation classes, where he also advises masters dissertations and doctorate theses. From a functional point of view his investigations approach discourse structure of diverse genre, spoken language and clause combining and grammar and discourse.

Speaker:Marta Recasens CLIC Centre de Llenguatge i Computació (Universitat de Barcelona) Date: June 28, 2011 Time: 16:15 Where: Computer Science Faculty, Room 2.3

ABSTRACT These two sessions cover some of the most important aspects of Computational Semantics and Pragmatics including: * Lexical Representations and Argument Structure * Parsing with constituency or dependency structure * Co-reference resolution [...]]]> Speaker: Rodolfo Delmonte, (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italy).
Date: January 17 and 18, 2011
Time: 16:00 – 19:30
Where: Computer Science Faculty

ABSTRACT
These two sessions cover some of the most important aspects of Computational Semantics and Pragmatics including:
* Lexical Representations and Argument Structure
* Parsing with constituency or dependency structure
* Co-reference resolution
* Underspecified arguments
* Argumentative structure, subjectivity, factuality and sentiment analysis
* Textual Entailment
The talks follow a linguistically motivated approach with the use of ontologies and similar resources to deal with co-reference or textual entailment tasks. The talks are accompanied by several applications and demonstrations.

SHORT BIO
Rodolfo Delmonte is Associate Professor of Computational Linguistics at the University of Venice where he is in charge of the corresponding course at BA, MA and Ph.D. level. Specialist in experimental phonetics and computational linguistics he presents his research work at major international conferences and publishes articles in international journals. He is referee for and publishes in Speech Communication, International Journal of Speech Technologies, Journal of Natural Language Engineering and international conferences every year. He has been invited speaker in a number of conferences, teacher at international schools, and invited professor in the last five years in Boulder, Colorado at the CLSR, in Besançon at the Centre Tesnière, in Dallas at UTD. Hot topics of his latest research include the following: Implicit entities and antecedents of omitted and underspecified arguments; Argumentative Analysis, Subjectivity, Factuality and Sentiment Analysis.

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