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= Background =

As a supplementary component of the WeSearch project, there is
funding for collaborative activities towards semantic
interface corroboration, i.e. fixing (in various possible
senses) salient properties of the downstream interface
to the ERG (and, in principle, similar grammars).

As a central element of this line of work, the project
team will host a by-invitation meeting of experts, starting
in the morning of Monday, April 30 and lasting until the
afternoon of Wednesday, May 2.
At least some participants will arrive the preceding day
and will gather informally at the meeting site starting
sometime in the afternoon of Sunday, April 29, already.

The meeting will be held at
[[http://www.hankohotell.no/innhold/102/|Hankø Fjordhotell]],
close to the city of Fredrikstad and both Moss Lufhavn Rygge (RYG)
and Oslo Lufthavn Gardermoen (OSL).
Upon completion of the main meeting, sometime late afternoon
on May 2, some of the participants will head on to Oslo and
stay for another night or two.
Stephan is prepared to make accomodation arrangements
for everyone, both at Hankø and in Oslo.


= Participants =

The following have confirmed particpation:

|| Emily Bender || University of Washington || April 29, 12:20 (OSL; FI318) || May 3, 14:45 (OSL; FI319) || ||
|| Ann Copestake || University of Cambridge || April 29, 11:20 (RYG) || May 2, 21:50 (RYG) || chocolate allergy ||
|| Rebecca Dridan || University of Oslo || || || ||
|| Dan Flickinger || Stanford University || April 29, 09:50 (OSL; UA38) || May 6 (OSL) || ||
|| Angelina Ivanova || University of Oslo || || || poultry allergy ||
|| Stephan Oepen || University of Oslo || || || seafood allergy ||
|| Yi Zhang || German Research Center for AI || April 29, 13:25 (OSL; SK4752) || May 3, 16:40 (OSL; SK4757) || ||
|| Lilja Øvrelid || University of Oslo ||  || || ||

Stephan will make arrangements to meet those flying
into Gardermoen (OSL) and will then drive down to
Hankø.
We expect to arrive at the hotel between 15:00 and
16:00 on Sunday.
Rebecca and Angelina will take the train
to Fredrikstad and make arrangements to meet up with
Ann somewhere along the way.
Lilja will head straight for
the hotel a little later on Sunday.

Tuesday is a national holiday in Norway, so it seems
only fair that we take ''part'' of the day off and
leave our island for an excursion into the old town
of Fredrikstad sometime in the afternoon.
We will have dinner there and return to the hotel in
the evening, for a late-evening session (Lilja needs
to return to Oslo Tuesday night, to attend a seminar
the next morning).

= Programme =

In the tradition of earlier meetings, participants will
determine the programme jointly, possibly over drinks
already on Sunday evening.
Further below on this page, we will jointly (and incremetally)
construct the agenda for the meeting.

As one source of inspiration, say to derive a list of
(semantic) phenonema that are either exceptionally well
analyzed in the current ERG or maybe deserve further
thinking, we suggest the collection of sentences
compiled by Yusuke Miyao and colleagues for the
2008 Workshop on
[[http://lingo.stanford.edu/events/08/pe/|Parser Evaluation Across Frameworks]].
A gold-standard Redwoods treebank for these sentences
is [[http://erg.delph-in.net/compare?data=gold/terg/pest|available]]
as part of the ERG trunk.
UiO will make available graphical renderings of the
syntacto-semantic annotations in other frameworks prior
to the meeting.


= Candidate Topics =

 * [[WeSearch/DesignPrinciples|makes notes of guiding principles in semantic design, e.g. paraphrases]]
 * [[WeSearch/AnalysisCatalog|towards a catalogue of stable semantic analyses (and documentation)]]
 * a list of 'known bugs' (e.g. degree specifiers on quantifiers; [[WeSearch/ScopalArgCoord|scopal arguments in coordination]]: ''she can and must sing'', ''this city john admires and visits.'')
 * revisit (unrealized) plans from the past, e.g. fewer quantifiers, type distinctions for 'unbound' variables, non-restrictive relatives
 * updates on information structure (emily)
 * negation in a cross-linguistic perspective (emily)
 * [[WeSearch/ICONS|anaphor links (ICONS)]] (ann)
 * [[WeSearch/UnderspecifedAttachment|underspecification of modifier attachment]]: is it desirable?  if so, how could it be done?
 * the continuum between logical-form semantics vs. (syntacto-semantic) dependencies 
     * [[WeSearch/UnderspecifiedPreds|predicate symbols underspecified for arity]]
 * requirements of composition vs. interface aspects
 * [[WeSearch/VariablePropertySharing|specification of co-reference: *''I bit her tongue'']] (francis, heartfelt)
 * apposition (non-restrictive relative clauses)
 * [[WeSearch/PestExamples|look at analyses in PEST sentences]]
 * parentheticals
 * correct characterization (in PET)
 * contentful and technical: SEM-I representation
 * predicate inventories, 'optional' arguments, scopal vs. non-scopal arguments: This came up at least in the [[WeSearch/PestExamples|PEST examples]] and [[WeSearch/ScopalArgCoord|coordination]] discussions
 * are we proud of our current analysis of coordination (in terms of the handle vs. index duality)
 * internal (semantic) structure of proper names: ''British Broadcasting Corporation'', [Frankfurt and] ''New York Stock Exchange'' => see [[WeSearch/PestExamples|PEST examples discussion]]
 * guiding principles in deciding on predicate names, e.g. closed class (''that'' vs. ''those'') => see [[WeSearch/PestExamples|PEST examples discussion]]
 * fine points of comparatives (how proud are we of our current analysis)?  => see [[WeSearch/PestExamples|PEST examples discussion]]
 * [[WeSearch/HankøTheRest|whatever else comes up]]

== Photos ==

[[http://erbonzo.smugmug.com/Travel/Hankø-MRS-2012/22732210_HKMw4d|photos]] Password: oslofjord