When: 18-19th April, 2024

Where: room 55.309. Poblenou Campus, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Day 1: April 18th

10:00 - 10:15 Welcome
10:15 - 11:15 Keynote 1: Paula Rubio-Fernández, Referential efficiency as speaker-listener coordination
11:15 - 11:35 Coffee break
11:35 - 12:20 Jialing Liang and Xixian Liao, How grammatical category influences conceptual categorization: The case of Chinese classifiers
12:25 - 13:10 Zhanglin Xie et al., Do speakers exploit word order in redundant adjective production for efficient communication? A crosslinguistic study
13:10 - 14:45 Lunch break
14:45 - 15:15 Poster flash presentations
15:15 - 16:15 Coffee break + Poster session (Aranyó hall)
16:15 - 17:00 Kees van Deemter, How explanatory are current models of human reference production?
20:00 Dinner (Daniel Cafe Restaurant - Av. Diagonal, 177 - 08018 Barcelona, MEDIAPRO-IMAGINA building)

 

Day 2: April 19th

10:00 - 11:00 Keynote 2: Sina Zarriess, Context in referring expression generation models: Pressure or resource?
11:00 - 11:20 Coffee break
11:20 - 12:05 Eleonora Gualdoni, Bridging semantics and pragmatics in information-theoretic emergent communication
12:20 - 12:55 Kobrock et al., Efficient context-adapted communication emerges in a multi-agent model                        
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 - 15:15 Maldonado & Mayol, Referential Expressions in a Communicative Setting
15:20 - 16:05 Cheuk et al., Reference production: how discourse relevance shapes modifier choice
16:05 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30 Keynote 3: Lilia Rissman, Less is more, except when it isn’t: The dual roles of conventionality and flexibility in guiding linguistic choice
17:30 Closing remarks and farewell

 

Posters

  • Stavroula Alexandropoulou and Nicole Gotzner, The role of standards in incremental upper-bounded interpretations of adjectives: A web-based visual world eye-tracking experiment

  • Diego Calanzone and Filippo Merlo, Acquiring Complex Concepts with Comparative Learning

  • Ruxandra Ionescu, Fabian Istrate and Barbara Hemforth, The role of discourse relations and next mention bias for the choice of null and overt pronouns

  • Cecilia Domingo, Paul Piwek, Michel Wermelinger and Svetlana Stoyanchev, Reference in Dynamic Environments: The case of pair programming

  • Derya Cokal and Klaus Von Heusinger, The role of alternatives in online and offline processing of German demonstratives

  • Hening Wang and Fabian Schlotterbeck, Exploring Communicative Efficiency in Adjective Ordering Preferences in Visual Referential Contexts: An Experimental and Computational Approach

  • Simon Dobnik, Nikolai Ilinykh and Aram Karimi, What to refer to and when? Reference and re-reference in two language-and-vision tasks

  • Sarah Schneider, Managing cues: redundancy in referring expressions in German essay texts

  • Eleonora Gualdoni, Why do objects have many names? A study on word informativeness in language use and lexical systems