Link for remote connection to the conference:
https://univ-grenoble-alpes-fr.zoom.us/j/94499179700?pwd=WEtHK0llaWZmTWtmTnhPUlVqRmlGUT09
December 6th:
9:00-10:00 - Welcoming+coffee
10:00-10:30 - Introduction
10:30-11:45 - Invited talk: Laurent Besacier
Title: Self-Supervised Learning for Low Resource Speech Tasks
Abstract: Self-supervised learning using huge unlabeled data has been successfully explored for image processing and natural language processing. Since 2019, recent works also investigated self-supervised representation learning from speech. They were notably successful to improve performance on downstream tasks such as speech recognition. These recent works suggest that it is possible to reduce dependence on labeled data for building speech systems through acoustic representation learning. In this talk I will present an overview of these recent approaches to self-supervised learning from speech and show my own investigations to use them in spoken language processing tasks for which size of training data is limited.
12:00-13:30 - Lunch+coffee break
13:30-14:30 - Invited talk: Alda Mari
Title: Epistemic future in questions, MICA and evidence quality
Abstract: In our talk we address the question of the interpretation of Italian MICA in questions with future in Italian. Contrary to recent views according to which MICA is a common ground management operator, we propose that MICA is a metaevaluator that ranks possibilities as low in a normality scale and ultimately gives rise to an inference of surprise in questions with future.
This analysis is cast in a framework where future is analyzed as an epistemic modal (Giannakidou and Mari 2018; in opposition to views according to which future is an evidential (Mari 2010, Eckardt and Beltrama 2019, Frana and Menendez-Benito 2019) and in which the modal skeleton contains a metaevaluator. We propose a distinction between evidence *source* and evidence *quality* that allows us to ground the epistemic use of future in degraded evidence leaving room for the uncertainty presupposition over which MICA operates.
14:30-15:30 - Contributed talks
15:30-16:00 - Coffee break
16:00-17:30 - Poster contributions
December 7th:
8:30-9:00 - Accueil+café
9:00-10:00 - Invited talk: Daan van Esch
Title: Building Language Technology for Everyone
Abstract: [TBA]
10:00-10:30 - Contributed talk
10:30-11:00 - Coffee break
11:00-12:00 - Contributed talks
12:00-13:30 - Lunch+coffee break
13:30-14:30 - Invited talk: Matti Miestamo
Title: Negation - Language typology, documentation and description
Abstract: Cross-linguistic typological work on negation has paid most attention to standard negation, i.e. the negation of declarative verbal main clauses (Dahl 1979; Payne 1985; Dryer 2013a,b,c; Miestamo 2005, 2013). Other aspects of negation that have received at least some attention in large-scale typological studies include the negation of imperatives (van der Auwera & Lejeune 2013), the negation of stative (nonverbal, existential, etc.) predications (Croft 1991; Eriksen 2011; Veselinova 2013), the negation of indefinite pronouns (Haspelmath 1997, 2013; Van Alsenoy 2014), abessives (Stolz et al. 2007), the effects of negation on the marking of NPs (Miestamo 2014), and negative replies to questions (Holmberg 2015) – for an overview of typological work on negation, see Miestamo 2017. Currently, typological work is underway on various aspects of the typology of negation: e.g., Veselinova’s work on negative lexicalizations and the relationship between negation and TAM, Miestamo & Koptjevskaja Tamm’s work on antonyms, Van Olmen’s work on negative imperatives, and Mauri & Sansò's work on anticircumstantial clauses as well as Miestamo, Shagal & Silvennoinen’s work on negation in dependent clauses. In this talk, I will give an overview of current typological knowledge of negation, focusing especially on interesting issues arising from my own work on the domain. I will also show how typological knowledge on negation can be made use of in language documentation and description, presenting a typologically and functionally oriented questionnaire for describing the domain of negation (Miestamo 2016) and giving an update on how the questionnaire is being used in an ongoing project describing negation in a number of languages from around the world.
14:30-15:15 - Contributed talks
15:15-16:00 - Conclusion + coffee
