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Discourse Expectations: Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational Perspectives
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SSHRC Awarded CG 2015: Funding to support an academic conference entitled "Discourse Expectations: Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational Perspectives (DETEC)", at the University of Alberta, from June 17-19, 2015. The conference will address theoretical issues concerning what linguistic and contextual factors affect the manner in which discourse expectations arise, how they can be quantified, and how they can be modeled. Understanding how such discourse expectations arise and vary in different languages helps us better understand human cognition, intercultural communication (and how it may break down), and improve artificial intelligence through computational modeling. Conference findings will also improve research methods by exploring the benefits of combining experimental and traditional fieldwork methodologies. Furthermore, the outcomes of the conference will generate information on the discourse properties of indigenous languages, which will contribute to the documentation and preservation of endangered languages.
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- Date created
- 2015-01-30
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- Psycholinguistics
- Linguistics
- Indigenous Languages Documentation
- Discourse Analysis
- Conference grant
- CG
- Indigenous Peoples
- Successful SSHRC
- Discourse
- Connection grants
- 2015
- Discourse Processing
- Computational Linguistics
- Communication
- Grant Application
- Linguistic Theory
- Pragmatics
- Indigenous Languages
- Computers and Language
- 2015
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- Type of Item
- Research Material