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) |
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 |