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Saturday 10 October
08:30 – 09:15  Opening & Introduction of the two groups: Aberdeen Computing Science and Zhejiang CSLC
Morning: Linguistics (session chair: Kees van Deemter)
09:15 – 10:00	Fenrong Liu. From Belief Change to Language Usage in Social Networks
10:00 – 10:30  Coffee break and photos
10:30 – 11:00	Xiaolu Wang, Binyao Huang. The effect of the speaker’s communicative style and the listener’s pragmatic ability on irony comprehension: Evidence from ERPs
11:00 – 11:30	Luming Wang, Xuping Li. When Topic and Focus overlap with Contrast: Evidence from processing Chinese OSV and SOV sentences
11:30 – 12:00	Xiaolong Yang, Yicheng Wu. A dynamic account of verb doubling clefts construction in Chinese
12:00 – 12:30	General discussion
12:30 – 14:30  Lunch
Afternoon: Argumentation (session chair: Beishui Liao)
14:30 – 15:15	Nir Oren. Introduction to formal argumentation
15:15 – 16:00	Federico Cerutti. Arguing2Text
16:00 – 16:30  Coffee break
16:30 – 17:00	Nir Oren. Understanding Complex Systems, From Models, to Arguments, to Language
17:00 – 17:30	General discussion
19:00  Dinner

 

Sunday 11 October
Morning: Natural Language Generation (session chair: Nir Oren)
08:30 – 09:30	Kees van Deemter. Introduction to Natural Language Generation & Algorithmic models of language production
09:30 – 10:00	Xiwu Han. A Brief Study on Surface Realisation for Chinese NLG
10:00 – 10:15  Coffee break
10:15 – 11:00	Guanlin Li. Human-like natural language production
11:00 – 11:30	LI Lin, ZHAO Weina. Build Up An Automated Chinese Essay Evaluation System For Ethnic Minority Writers
11:30 – 12:00	Xiao Li, Chenghua Lin and Kees van Deemter: Mapping numerical information to words: towards a fully statistical approach
12:00 – 12:30	General discussion
12:30 – 14:30  Lunch
Afternoon: Game Theory and Language
14:30 – 15:30	Thomas Ågotnes. Introduction to Game Theory & Playing Games with Dynamic Epistemic Logic
15:30 – 16:00	Cihua Xu. Play a Game with a Metaphor——A game-theoretic account of using metaphor
16:00 – 16:30	Mengyuan Zhao. A Game-Theoretic Analysis on the Use of Indirect Speech Acts
16:30 – 16:45  Coffee break
16:45 – 18:00	Panel discussion on collaborative projects
19:00  Dinner