The full schedule is available at https://esslli2021.unibz.it/.
ESSLLI 2021: COURSES AND WORKSHOPS
F = Foundational course
I = Introductory course
A = Advanced course
W = Workshop
Language and Computation
Stefan Evert and Gabriella Lapesa. Hands-on Distributional Semantics – From first steps to interdisciplinary applications (Introductory course) F
Mathias Winther Madsen. Information theory F
Jose Camacho Collados and Mohammad Taher Pilehvar. Embeddings in Natural Language Processing I
Gregory Scontras. Probabilistic Language Understanding I
Jean-Philippe Bernardy and Aleksandre Maskharashvili. Probabilistic Semantics and Inference Under Uncertainty in Natural Language I
Lisa Beinborn and Willem Zuidema. Analyzing the Cognitive Plausibility of Deep Language Models A
Adina Williams and Ryan Cotterell. Information Theory in Linguistics: Methods and Applications A
Stergios Chatzikyriakidis and Rainer Osswald. Workshop on Computing Semantics with Types, Frames and Related Structures W
Shane Steinert-Threlkeld and Jakub Szymanik. Computational and Experimental Explanations in Semantics and Pragmatics W
Ielka van der Sluis and James Pustejovsky. Annotation, Recognition and Evaluation of Actions II (AREA-II) W
Logic and Language
Bart Geurts. Commitment-based pragmatics F
Philippe de Groote and Yoad Winter. Introduction to natural language formal semantics F
Thomas Graf. The Computational Nature of Language F
Andras Kornai. Unifying formulaic, geometric, and algebraic theories of semantics I
Patrick Georg Grosz and Mélissa Berthet. Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Animal Semantics: a Super Linguistic Introduction I
Natasha Korotkova and Pranav Anand. An opinionated guide to the language of opinion I
Yael Greenberg and Carla Umbach. Additivity, scalarity and the interactions between them: Beyond 'also' and 'even' I
Joost Zwarts. The semantics of metaphor I
Elsi Kaiser and Deniz Rudin. The semantics and psycholinguistics of subjective predicates I
Jakub Dotlačil and Floris Roelofsen. Dynamic inquisitive semantics A
Kristina Liefke and Ede Zimmermann. Intensionalism and Propositionalism in Linguistic Semantics A
Davide Grossi and Carlo Proietti. Abstract Argumentation and Modal Logic A
Lucas Champollion. Advanced mereology for linguists A
Judith Degen, Benjamin Spector and Daniel Lassiter. Approaches to implicature: Rational choice and/or exhaustification W
Mora Maldonado, Alexander Martin and Jennifer Culbertson. Experimental approaches to language universals in structure and meaning W
Logic and Computation
Pablo Barceló and Diego Figueira. Foundations of query languages for graph databases I
Valentin Goranko. Temporal Logics I
Réka Markovich and Leon van der Torre. Introduction to Deontic Logic and Its Applications (Introductory course) I
Pavel Naumov. Actions, Blames, and Regrets I
Camillo Fiorentini. Sematics based proof-search methods for non-classical logics I
Eric Pacuit. Probabilistic methods in social choice I
Willem Heijltjes and Lutz Straßburger. From Proof Nets to Combinatorial Proofs — A new approach to Hilbert’s 24th problem A
Phokion Kolaitis. Logic, Data, and Incomplete Information A
Anuj Dawar and Gregory Wilsenach. Symmetric Computation A
Fei Liang and Alessandra Palmigiano. Logical foundations of categorization theory A
Tadeusz Litak and Albert Visser. Lewis meets Brouwer: Constructive strict implication A
Jouko Väänänen and Fan Yang. Workshop on Logics of Dependence and Independence W
Natasha Alechina and Brian Logan. Workshop on automated synthesis W