Approaches to Studying World-Situated Language Use: CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, March 15-17, 2001, Philadelphia, PA

这笔拨款将资助“自然对话中的世界语境语言使用”特别会议，该会议将与第14届纽约市立大学人类句子处理年度会议一起举行。该会议于2001年3月15日至17日在费城的宾夕法尼亚大学举行，是美国最著名的人类语言理解跨学科研究会议。每年，大约有250名语言学家、心理语言学家和计算语言学家对语言理解和产生的详细处理账户感兴趣。这次特别会议的主题是“研究世界情境语言使用的方法：连接语言作为产品和语言作为行动的传统”，旨在将对话/话语研究与纽约市立大学会议上常见的正式语言学和机械方法联系起来。五位在这一衔接领域工作的杰出研究人员被邀请进行演讲并参加小组讨论。此外，同行评议提交的关于这一主题的演讲和海报将在随后的会议上展示。希望通过在纽约市立大学会议上举办这次研讨会，及时进行跨学科的讨论，以激发新一代的心理语言学和计算研究，例如如何处理不流利的自然话语，如何在实时处理中结合来自上下文，手势和语言输入的信息，对话者如何协调注意力，以及这些协调过程如何影响实时语言处理承诺。

This grant will fund a special conference session on 'world-situated language use in natural dialog', held in conjunction with the 14th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. The conference, held March 15-17, 2001, at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, is the most prominent U.S. conference for the interdisciplinary study of human language understanding. On an annual basis, it brings together roughly 250 linguists, psycholinguists and computational linguists interested in detailed processing accounts of language comprehension and production. The special session, entitled "Approaches to Studying World-Situated Language Use: Bridging the Language-as-Product and Language-as-Action Traditions," is designed as a step toward linking conversational/discourse research with the formal linguistic and mechanistic approaches typically found at the CUNY conference. Five prominent researchers working in this bridging area have been invited to give talks and participate in a panel discussion. In addition, peer-reviewed submitted talks and posters on this topic will be presented in accompanying sessions. It is hoped that by holding this symposium at the CUNY Conference, timely cross-disciplinary discussions will occur so to inspire a new generation of psycholinguistic and computational research on questions such as how natural utterances with disfluencies are processed, how information from context, gesture and linguistic input are combined in real-time processing, how interlocutors coordinate attention, and how these coordination processes impact real-time language processing commitments.