Program

8.30 – 9.00 Registration
9.00 - 9.05 Sylviane Granger (Head of the Linguistics Research Unit, Institute for Langage and Communication)
Welcome
9.05 – 9.15 Thomas François (CENTAL, ILC) & Magali Paquot (FNRS, CECL, ILC)
Introduction to the workshop
9.15-10.15 Frederick J. Newmeyer (University of Washington, University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University)
The question of linguistic complexity: historical perspective
10.15 – 11.15 Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (KULeuven, Belgium)
Measuring complexity in contrastive linguistics and contrastive dialectology
11.15 – 11.30 coffee break
11.30 – 12.30 Alex Housen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
L2 complexity – A Difficult(y) Matter
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch time
14.00 – 15.00

Philippe Blache (CNRS & Universite d'Aix-Marseille, France)
Evaluating complexity in syntax: a computational model for a cognitive architecture

15.00 – 15.15 coffee break
15.15 -16.15 Advaith Siddharthan (University of Aberdeen, UK)
Automatic Text Simplification and Linguistic Complexity Measurements
16.15 – 17.00 Thomas François & Magali Paquot
Synthesis & round table