12 April: No DCLRS this week

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Howdy.

First of all, I'm sorry you didn't get this sooner -- we've been
having troubles with a new majordomo configuration here.

Unfortunately, the Dublin Computational Linguistics Research Seminar
will not happen this week.

The next seminar will be on Friday, April 19, 2002:

Hannes Rieser (Bielefeld University, Germany):
A Unified Account for Gesture Meaning and Expression Meaning in Simple
Reference Games

A new approach based on experiments and corpora studies dealing with the
integration of content coming from pointing gestures and definite
descriptions (objects calles "DDs") is given. It is argued that pointing
gestures are polysemous and polymorphic entities denoting objects or
objects-within-regions. Gesture information and expression meaning are
integrated in a newly developed syntax-semantics interface built upon an
HPSG-like syntax and a flexible type-logical semantics. Semantic and
pragmatic (Gricean) solutions for the computation of the integrated
content are discussed. The theory is evaluated against annotated
experimental video data. It has inter alia interesting VR-applications.

Take care,

Carl

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