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

这笔赠款将资助在纽约市立大学第14届人类句子处理年度会议期间举行的一次特别会议，主题为“自然对话中的世界语言使用”。这次会议于2001年3月15日至17日在费城的宾夕法尼亚大学举行，是美国关于人类语言理解跨学科研究的最著名的会议。每年，它聚集了大约250名语言学家、心理语言学家和计算语言学家，他们对语言理解和产出的详细处理过程感兴趣。这次特别会议题为“研究世界语言使用的方法：将语言作为产品的传统与作为行动的语言传统相结合”，旨在将对话/语篇研究与CUNY会议上常见的正式语言和机械方法联系起来。在这一桥梁领域工作的五位著名研究人员已被邀请发表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讲座和海报将在附带的会议中介绍。希望通过在CUNY会议上举办这次研讨会，及时进行跨学科的讨论，从而启发新一代心理语言学和计算研究，如如何处理带有不流利的自然话语，来自语境、手势和语言输入的信息如何在实时处理中结合，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.